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Curriculum Vitae

Personal details:

Name: PROUST Gwendahl

Date of Birth: 24/10/1986 (30 y/o)

Address : * *** ** ******** – 14400 Bayeux – FRANCE

Phone : +33 (0)6.17.42.35.88

Email : ******.********@*****.***

Married, one child

Driving license

Strenghs, skills :

Leadership experience: Ability to hang, overview or manage end-to end processes in tourism industry

People management: Ability to motivate a crew or team to reach short, mid and long term goals

Ability to work with a international team or adapt myself to different cultures

Education :

2006 : Terminale Littéraire (12th grade in Literature), Lycée de Civray (86), France

Main subjects: Philosophy, Literature, History and Geography, English, Spanish, German

2006 : Baccalauréat (French secondary school diploma)

2006-2008 : BTS Tourisme, Brittany (France) (a French national diploma of tourism 2 years after the Baccalauréat)

Main subjects: French history, guiding, hotel management, travel agency management, creation of touristic events, English, Spanish, French languages

2008 : BTS tourisme obtained

2008-2009 : Diplôme de Guide-Interprète National (National French Tour guide formation)

Main subjects: History of art, of painting, patrimony, guiding technics in French, English, Spanish and German…

2009: Diploma obtained

Foreign Language:

French: mother tongue

English: fluent, written, read and understood

Spanish: fluent, written, read and understood

German: some skills

Scholarship trainings:

April/June 2007 : Centre d’Exposition sur l’Industrie des Pâtes et Papiers, Trois-Rivières, Québec, CANADA

Reception, I guided in the exhibition centre about the paper industry in the center of Quebec in French and English, animation with young people

March 2008: Tourist office of Barèges (65), FRANCE (near the Spanish border)

I received and guided tourists through little villages into the mountains in French, Spanish and English, reception and worked for the hotel booking service

April and July 2009: Abbaye de St Savin sur Gartempe (86), FRANCE.

These trainings are linked to the National French Tour guide formation. I guided into the abbey of

St Savin with frescoes and paintings which date from the 11th century, reception, creation of animations for children

Professionnal experience:

Summer 2006 and 2007: Restaurant “Le Port Dauphin” St Palais-sur-mer, FRANCE

I was waiter and I worked with foreigners (Englishmen…)

Summer 2008: Tourist office of Ligugé (86), FRANCE

I worked as a tour guide and reception clerk. I guided into the oldest abbey built in Europe (361 AD) during 4 months (from June to September). I guided in French, English, German and a little bit in Spanish.

2008: Tourist office of Poitiers (86), FRANCE.

I did guided tours of the city of Poitiers in French, English and Spanish all along the year

2010: Tour guide in Alsace, based in Strasbourg, FRANCE

Guided tours of various sites in Alsace, Switzerland (Basel, Zurich), and West Germany (Stuttgart, Baden-Baden, Black forest…). Departures and Arrivals from and to hotel, airports. Guiding in French, English, Spanish and German. Private tours.

From April 2011 to now: Tour guide and guide management, based in Bayeux, FRANCE

Guided tours of various sites in Normandy and Brittany, especially the Normandy landing beaches, Mont Saint-Michel, Honfleur, Saint-Malo, Rouen… and the Loire Valley Renaissance chateaux. Departures and arrivals from and to Bayeux, Caen or Paris. Guiding in French, English, Spanish.

D-Day and private tours. Transfers from and the Paris airports. Leader of the Spanish guiding department, elaboration of new tour offers.

Hobbies:

Interested in discovering new cultures and world civilisations

Travelling

Practicing music instruments (guitars, mandolin, flutes and medieval instruments)

Cycling, skiing, hiking

Reading, theatre playing, computer programs (Word, Excel, Power Point, Publisher, Galileo).

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