Odysseys provides a tour director (the amazing Peter Wong on our trip) who travels with you throughout the trip. The director is not a tour guide; they handle logistics. In each city, we also had a local tour guide from that city. In red is our Beijing tour guide, Michael Song. He was my favorite guide of the trip as he was extremely personable and got to know each traveler individually (it helped that we were in Beijing longer than any other city, which gave Michael extra time to get to know us)