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Core Concept

This document defines key concepts in tour guiding services. It explains that a tour involves traveling to destinations and returning to the origin point, and that a tour guide helps groups of tourists appreciate places by providing information and coordination. The document outlines the roles of a tour guide as meeting tourists, facilitating transportation and accommodation, leading guided tours, presenting commentaries on sites of interest, handling operational issues, and reporting on tours. Understanding these basic concepts of tours and the roles of tour guides is important for working in the tour guiding industry.

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Core Concept

This document defines key concepts in tour guiding services. It explains that a tour involves traveling to destinations and returning to the origin point, and that a tour guide helps groups of tourists appreciate places by providing information and coordination. The document outlines the roles of a tour guide as meeting tourists, facilitating transportation and accommodation, leading guided tours, presenting commentaries on sites of interest, handling operational issues, and reporting on tours. Understanding these basic concepts of tours and the roles of tour guides is important for working in the tour guiding industry.

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Core Concepts in Tour

Guiding Services
LEARNING OBJECTIVES:

a. Define the basic concepts in tour guiding


services;
b.identify the roles of a tour guide; and
c. annotate the importance of knowing the
basic concept of tour guiding services
1.What is a tour?
A Tour
 Tornare a Latin word
 Tornos a Greek word means to circle around.
 Tour means to come back to the point of origin after going to a
destination elsewhere (Theobald 1998)
 It refers to the activities of the people when they go through a place
in order to see and learn about it in person ( Merriam and Webster
Dictionary)
2. What is a tour guide?
A Tour Guide

A person who guides people as they go through a foreign place to help

them gain better appreciation of the place and the interesting things to see

there.

It helps these people make efficient use of their time during their tour.

An individual who guide tourist, both foreign and domestic, for a free,

commission, or any other form of lawful remuneration (Philippine DOT

1995)
3. What is tour guiding?
A Tour Guiding
It refers to the provision of professional service to interpret the cultural

and natural heritage of an area (WFTGA)

A tour guide (U.S.) or a tourist guide(European) provides assistance,

information and cultural, historical and contemporary heritage

interpretation to people on organized tours and individual clients at

educational establishments, religious and historical sites, museums, and

at venues of other significant interest."


4. What are the roles of
tour guide?
Roles of a Tour Guide
Meeting and Greeting the Tour participants upon arrival and

facilitating introduction

Coordinating pre-arranged accommodation and transport and

making sure that tour participants are comfortable

Coordinating pre –arranged tours including visits to local

attractions shop restaurants etc.


Leading tour groups and pointing out places of interest.
Preparing and presenting tour guide spiels called tour
commentaries.
Attending to operational problems, such as booking errors
and changes, lost bags or sickness and providing first aid
if needed.
Preparing and submitting written reports of how the day’s
tour turned out, including financial report and other
administrative work
QUIZ TIME !!!
1. What is the Latin word of
tour?

TORNARE
2. What is the Greek word of
tour?

TORNOS
3. A person who guides people
as they go through a foreign
places.

Tour Guide
4. It refers to the provision of
professional service to interpret
the cultural and natural heritage
of an area (WFTGA).

Tour Guiding
5. Coordinating pre-arranged
accommodation and transport and
making sure that tour participants
are comfortable. Is this a role of a
tour guide?

TRUE FALSE
THANK
YOU

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