Tour Guide - Pirate Tour
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US Ghost Adventures
Salem, MA, US
Summary
Lead interactive walking tours through historic Salem while maintaining an engaging pirate persona. Deliver energetic historical narratives and folklore to guests while providing high-quality customer service.
Job Description
Tour Guide - Pirate Tour
Location: Salem, MA
Job Type: Part-time
Compensation: $40.00 per hour
Position Overview
Tourismo is seeking fun, charismatic performers, historical storytellers, and energetic entertainers to join our team as Pirate Tour Guides in Salem. This position combines costumed historical interpretation, theatrical storytelling, and interactive outdoor entertainment. Guides lead walking tours through the historic streets of Salem, bringing legends, pirate history, and regional folklore to life for families, tourists, and adventure seekers.
Responsibilities
- Lead groups of guests on walking tours lasting approximately 90 minutes through historic Salem while maintaining an engaging pirate persona.
- Deliver energetic historical narratives, pirate legends, and regional folklore using public speaking and theatrical storytelling techniques.
- Facilitate interactive moments and guest engagement to create an entertaining atmosphere for audiences of all ages.
- Provide high-quality customer service, answer guest questions, and deliver a memorable entertainment experience.
Compensation & Perks
- $60.00 base pay per 90-minute tour ($40.00/hr rate)
- Tips: $20 to over $100 per tour.
- Bonuses based on performance.
- Free or discounted tours for you and close family/friends all over the country
- Flexible scheduling that fits your lifestyle
Position Requirements
- A deep passion for history, storytelling, and historic research
- Strong public speaking skills to engage and educate your tour groups
- Prior experience as a bartender, acting or theater experience is helpful.
- Passion for entertaining, history, theater, and costumed performance.
About Tourismo
Tourismo provides historic, entertainment-focused walking tours in more than 100 cities across the United States. Grounded in research and authentic local lore, our experiences connect guests with the historic legends, folklore, and captivating stories of America's most famous destinations
US Ghost Adventures offers entertaining, historic, and authentic ghost tours of the United States’ most haunted cities. We aim to deliver fun, yet honest accounts of the hauntings that are so prevalent across the nation.
Our team of over 400 employees and tour guides is passionate about delivering memorable experiences for each of our guests, every day of the year. The stories you will hear on our tours have been refined over the years to include experiences by our own guests and tour guides, as well as interviews of firsthand accounts from those who have witnessed the unexplained. We’re not here to dress up in costume, jump out and scare you, or to recite dramatic flair. We strive to make sense of the unexplainable by showing you the places and telling you the stories of the people who left their mark on them.
We hope you’ll join us in one of over 85 cities for a frighteningly fun experience!
Visit one of our historic properties for an overnight stay or tour, if you dare. Each location has an amazing story to tell, its own character, place in our history, and a reputation for hauntings amongst both staff and visitors. We hope you'll join us for a new type of experience as our home becomes yours during your stay! We hope to see you!
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Founded
2019
Company size
201-500 employees
Industry
Leisure, Travel & Tourism
Org type
Privately Held
Headquarters
Fall River, MA
US Ghost Adventures offers entertaining, historic, and authentic ghost tours of the United States’ most haunted cities. We aim to deliver fun, yet honest accounts of the hauntings that are so prevalent across the nation.
Our team of over 400 employees and tour guides is passionate about delivering memorable experiences for each of our guests, every day of the year. The stories you will hear on our tours have been refined over the years to include experiences by our own guests and tour guides, as well as interviews of firsthand accounts from those who have witnessed the unexplained. We’re not here to dress up in costume, jump out and scare you, or to recite dramatic flair. We strive to make sense of the unexplainable by showing you the places and telling you the stories of the people who left their mark on them.
We hope you’ll join us in one of over 85 cities for a frighteningly fun experience!
Visit one of our historic properties for an overnight stay or tour, if you dare. Each location has an amazing story to tell, its own character, place in our history, and a reputation for hauntings amongst both staff and visitors. We hope you'll join us for a new type of experience as our home becomes yours during your stay! We hope to see you!
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Founded
2019
Company size
201-500 employees
Industry
Leisure, Travel & Tourism
Org type
Privately Held
Headquarters
Fall River, MA
