Feb 13 2021 49 mins
In this episode I’ll be talking about the sometimes mysterious, often misunderstood, but always essential role of the tour manager with Temu Nana, a guy who seems like he was born to travel the world, is one of the finer tour managers I’ve come across, and is just an all-around interesting person.
While the job may go by various names like Tour Director, Tour Leader, Expedition Leader, etc., the tour manager is truly of singular importance to the success of many many types of travel, especially when it involves groups of travelers.
This is a person who doesn’t just hand out name tags and do headcounts; It’s somebody who needs to draw on a wide range of skills to get the job done, be extremely detail-oriented, proactive as well as responsive, project confidence yet stay humble, and on top of everything else be comfortable speaking in front of large groups of people.
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Temu Nana hails from Ann Arbor, MI and has spent the last 13 years working primarily as a Tour Manager in luxury educational and photographic travel. As a product of a multicultural household (his mother is from Canada and his father from Pakistan), Temu has long been at ease moving between various cultures and customs. He’s visited over 90 countries, led tours in over 50, and in 2019 he led trips on all seven continents! With an organized, fluid, and friendly approach to running tours, he tries to cultivate an enjoyable and efficient experience for the travelers. While travel is a passion, his time in between trips is spent on other goals/hobbies; he's a licensed glider pilot, college football fan (Go Blue!) and deep-space astrophotographer.
Find Temu online at https://www.tknanaphoto.com/