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Unit 1: Principles of Tour Guiding: The Tour Guide

1) A tour guide is a person who helps people visiting foreign places by providing information to help them appreciate the place and make efficient use of their time. 2) A tour guide interprets cultural and natural heritage for visitors on organized tours and at sites of interest. 3) The document contrasts the roles of a tour guide, tour manager, and tour escort - a tour guide focuses on informing visitors, a manager ensures an itinerary is followed, and an escort provides support services and information for a planned trip.

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Unit 1: Principles of Tour Guiding: The Tour Guide

1) A tour guide is a person who helps people visiting foreign places by providing information to help them appreciate the place and make efficient use of their time. 2) A tour guide interprets cultural and natural heritage for visitors on organized tours and at sites of interest. 3) The document contrasts the roles of a tour guide, tour manager, and tour escort - a tour guide focuses on informing visitors, a manager ensures an itinerary is followed, and an escort provides support services and information for a planned trip.

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UNIT 1: PRINCIPLES OF TOUR GUIDING: THE TOUR GUIDE (World Federation of Tourist Guide Associations/www.wtfga.

org)

TOUR TOUR MANAGER/TOUR DIRECTOR/TOUR ESCORT


- A person who manages an itinerary on behlaf of the tour operatopr ensuring
 From the Latin word “tornare” and Greek “tornos”, meaning “to circle around” the program is carried out nas described in the tour operator's literature and
 It means “to come back to the point of origin after going to a destination sold to the traveler/vonsumer and who gives local practical information
elsewhere” (Theobald, 1998)
 In tourism “tour” refers to the activities of people when they go through a place TOUR GUIDE VS TOUR ESCORT
in order to see and learn about it in person (Merriam-Webster Dictionary)
Tour Guide
TOUR GUIDE - One who conducts a tour or one with a broad knowledge of a particular area
whose primary duty is to inform. According to the Tour Guide Code of 1987
 A person who guides people as they go through a foreign place to help them promulgated by the Department of Tourism, “tour guide is an individual who is
gain better appreciation of the place and interesting things to see there licensed by the local government and accredited by the Department of
 Also helps people make efficient use of their time during the tour Tourism to guide a tourist both foreign and domestic for a fee, commission or
 An individual who guides tourist, both foreign and domestic, for a fee, any other form of lawful remuneration”
commission, or any other from of awful remuneration (www.tourism.gov.ph
and Philippine DOT, 1995) Tour Escort
 A persom who guides groups or individual visitors from abroad or from the
home country around the monuments, sites, museums of a city or region; to - The tour escort is a qualified person who accompanies people traveling
interpret in an inspiring and entertaining manner in the language of the through different countries and abroad to assure the regular running of the
visitor's choice, including the cultural and natural heritage and environment planned trips, provides the necessary support services for its entire duration
(International Association of Tour Managers and the European Federation of and giving significant information of the site
Tourist Guide Association/EFTA 1998) www.feg-
touristguides.com/touristguideineurope.ph UNIT 2: HISTORY OF TOUR GUIDING
 A tour guide (US) or a tourist guide (European) provides assistance,
information, and cultural, historical and contemporary heritage interpretation to  Guiding is one of the oldest professions in the world. There are plenty of
people on organized tours and individual clients at educational specific references to guides in the annals of history from Roman Empire to
establishments, religious and historical sites, museums, and venues of other the Middle Ages, throughout the Renaissance and into the modern age
significant interest. (On the Job: A Seasoned Tour Guide Tells All,
JobMonkey.com THE ANCIENT EMPIRE (3,000 BC TO 500 AD)
 A good tour guide has the self-assurance and tact of diplomat, the knowledge
of a scholar, the performace skills of an entertainer, and the organizational
abilities of a time management expert

TOUR GUIDING

- Refers to the provision of professional service to interpret the cultural and


natural heritage of an area; a person who guides visitors in the language of
their choice and interprets the cultural and natural heritage of an area which
person normally possesses an area – specific qualification usually issued
and/or recognized by the appropriate authority

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