(Previously, volunteers were only stationed at the visitors' center at Philipsburg Manor, where they guided tourists onto the minibuses that make the seven-minute ride to Kykuit).
"Humidity is the enemy," lectured Yannick, an impish, pony-tailed Québécois who usually makes his living guiding tourists to caribou.
During long American stopovers, his temporary jobs included shifts in a canning factory and guiding tourists at Niagara Falls.
"This is the first time I've seen anything like this," said Ahmet Calayer, a local resident who guides tourists around the castle.
Other winery associations in the New York region have established trails to help guide tourists among vineyards in the Hudson Valley, through New Jersey and on Long Island.
Everyone has come together to express ourselves," said Kyle Biggs, who guides tourists to see penguins and battlefield sites from the 1982 war between Britain and Argentina.
He has a theory, developed during threo years of guiding tourists around the United Kingdom, that Americans would like to own any artifacts associated with historical figures.
A third, in Lisbon, will guide tourists.Mr Biderman says there is an even richer seam to be mined as people find and create their own data in real time.
The council's 50-0 vote authorizes a business district organization to assess property owners from $200 to $5,000 a year so it can hire workers to sweep the streets, remove graffiti, enhance lighting, add signs to guide tourists and perform other upgrades.
Kristján Maack, the head of the Kópavogur team, a photographer who also guides tourists into a caldera, told me, "The winters are long and dark, and there isn't much to do.
