TOUR GUIDING- MODULE 1
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enumerate the 10 rules of tour guide

• Meeting and greeting the tour participants upon arrival • Facilitating introductions • Coordinating pre-arranged accommodation and transport • Making sure that tour participants are comfortable • Coordinating pre-arranged tours to local attractions, shops, shops, restaurants. Etc. • Pointing out places of interest • Preparing and presenting tour guide spiels called tour commentaries • Researching and sharing general information about a place • Attending to operational problems, such as booking changes, lost bags, or sickness, and providing first aid if needed • Preparing and submitting post-tour written reports.

what is tour guide?

person who leads and informs groups of people

what is tour?

refers to the activities of people when they go to a place to see and learn about it in person.

Before becoming a tour guide, a person must first undergo a training program.

<p>professionalism</p> Signup and view all the answers

One of the tour guide’s roles is to educate the tourists about the meanings and significance of cultural and natural attractions.

<p>Interpretations</p> Signup and view all the answers

Tour guides provide service, a form of product that is intangible, perishable, and one whose production and consumption happens simultaneously.

<p>Service</p> Signup and view all the answers

Tour guides combine service with the physical elements to create the total tourism experience for clients.

<p>Physical elements</p> Signup and view all the answers

Tour guide must be mature, responsible patient, tactful, and sensitive to different cultures.

<p>characteristics of a tour guide</p> Signup and view all the answers

tour guide performs many functions. However, a tour guide cannot work alone. He or she relies on others to provide the tourists with the total tourism experience.

<p>Limitations lf a tour guide</p> Signup and view all the answers

what do we call the tour guides in Dark-Middle Ages

<p>safety escorts for travellers</p> Signup and view all the answers

what routes the young men’s tutors and chaperones as they journeyed through a prescribed route - Renaissance

<p>England to France, Germany, Austria, Switzerland, and Italy</p> Signup and view all the answers

Modern age

<p>No evidence of organized training exists for guides</p> Signup and view all the answers

guides who showed the battlefields and the shores where the Greek ships arrived

<p>Ancient Times</p> Signup and view all the answers

Employed Guides

<p>employed by a company</p> Signup and view all the answers

These are self-employed guides who make and sell their own tours.

<p>Freelance guides</p> Signup and view all the answers

mostly hobbyist such as retirees and environmental advocates. They earn non-monetary rewards such as friendship, experience, and cultural exchange.

<p>Docile or Volunteer guides</p> Signup and view all the answers

employed by corporations, usually as part of the public relations department.

<p>plant guides</p> Signup and view all the answers

employed by corporations, usually as part of the public relations department.

<p>plant guides</p> Signup and view all the answers

hobbyists who love a particular sporting activity and introduce this activity to the tourist.

<p>Adventure guides</p> Signup and view all the answers

specialize in a particular city or province.

<p>city guides</p> Signup and view all the answers

specialize in a particular city or province.

<p>city guides</p> Signup and view all the answers

refers to an individual who exhibits technical expertise and knowledge in a specific field of interest or activity

<p>specialist tour guide</p> Signup and view all the answers

refers to an individual guiding within a region

<p>Regional tour guide</p> Signup and view all the answers

refers to an entry level Regional Tour Guide who has met the minimum requirements for DOT accreditation

<p>Regular Regional Tour Guide</p> Signup and view all the answers

refers to a Regional Tour Guide who has rendered at least ten (10) consecutive years as DOT-accredited Regional Tour Guide and has proven his/her expertise and experience in conducting tours

<p>Master Regional Tour Guide</p> Signup and view all the answers

refers to a Regional Tour Guide who has rendered at least ten (10) consecutive years as DOT-accredited Regional Tour Guide and has proven his/her expertise and experience in conducting tours

<p>Master Regional Tour Guide</p> Signup and view all the answers

refers to an individual who performs tour guiding within a particular site, attraction, and/or specific activities in a community or locality where he/she has been issued DOT Accreditation.

<p>Community Tour Guide</p> Signup and view all the answers

refers to a Community Tour Guide who has met the minimum requirements for DOT accreditation, including completion of the Community Tour Guides Training, or an accredited Community Tour Guide prior to the implementation of this Circular.

<p>Regular Community Tour Guide</p> Signup and view all the answers

refers to a Community Tour Guide who has rendered at least two (2) consecutive accreditation periods as DOT-accredited

<p>Master Community Tour Guide</p> Signup and view all the answers

refers to a Community Tour Guide who has rendered at least two (2) consecutive accreditation periods as DOT-accredited

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