When things go wrong, remember that you're the travelers' local liaison
Understand your role with travelers
- A driver may be just an employee to the company, but to travelers he is often their immediate point of contact with Morocco, their tour and their operator. You're the bar.
- You can set it high or low.
- When something goes wrong, if you panic or become angry, the travelers feel it too.
Stay calm and coordinate vehicle problems
- Stay calm first.
- Explain what has happened in a clear voice, without pretending you have already solved it. Then inform the agency.
- If the problem is a puncture and it is safe and practical to deal with it, the driver should have learned how to change a wheel.
- Speaking five languages won't change a tyre for you.
- If the vehicle has broken down seriously, the operator needs to help arrange an alternative.
- When far from base, a locally arranged transfer or taxi to the guests' hotel may solve that night's immediate transport problem while a replacement is coordinated for the next day.
- Do not improvise unsafe roadside solutions or promise transport the agency has not arranged.
Handle complaints and missing suppliers
- Unhappy travelers happen too.
- You can't magically make everyone happy.
- Keep the relationship professional, deliver what was agreed and avoid escalating the tension with unnecessary personal argument.
- If a supplier doesn't show up, communicate, contact the responsible operator and work through a realistic alternative within your authority.
Use alternatives and respond to emergencies
- Experience gives you plan B, plan C and plan D.
- Calmness gives you the chance to use them.
- An immediate safety or medical emergency, of course, requires the appropriate emergency response, not merely a reassuring tone.
Tips from real experience on the road, not official training or certification. Always check current rules and safety guidance. Terms