The Innocents Abroad

The innocents Abroad

In Chapter 13, the group hires a tour guide to show them famous sites. Despite being tasked with this duty, the guide seems more interested in obtaining money by taking the tourists shopping and earning a commission. He even manages to keep them from making the Louvre before closing. What does this say about the tour guides in Paris, and how might this affect the group's hiring of other tour guides in the future?

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Tour guides in Twain's time were rarely licensed. Most were just everyday people who claimed knowledge of a city and offered to show it for money. The tour guide was likely one of these, though it is never specifically mentioned. Stores would pay the tour guides to lead the tourists to their doors, and it likely was that arrangement that influenced Twain's guide. It is likely that this incident will make the group wary of tour guides and their intentions in the future.

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