Lesson 4 - Tour Guiding

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are crucial for staying updated on local and international trends and issues.

Enhancement Seminars

begins at home, where parents serve as our first teachers, and schools become our second home, with teachers acting as second parents.

Values Formation

is understanding ourselves and moderating our responses, talking effectively and empathizing accurately, building relationships of trust, respect and productive interactions.

People Skills

Philippines is an English-speaking country and most of the people speak English, making it a major reason why foreign tourists prefer to visit the country.

Language Proficiency

is not only all about the facility of the language, but if the message has been conveyed the way the sender wants it to be understood, then effective communication has taken place.

Communication

is an element of culture. There are peculiar words in every country, varied pronunciation and diction, making it a challenge to quickly understand the content of the words because of different accent.

Language

often become successful due to their familiarity with the dynamic industry and their love for travel and meeting people.

Tour Guides

can handle problems in a subtle, calm, and low-key manner. They must have a genuine interest in people and impress visitors with pride of place, manifested in their guiding techniques and delivery style.

Tour Managers

prefer guides based on their personality and ability to handle guests. Some prefer entertainers who can lead sing-alongs and organize games, while others prefer escorts who can provide informative spiels about history and culture. The ability to entertain is secondary to the main focus of tour guiding.

Tour Operators

will be a big edge to be able to perform the duties of a tour guide.

Outgoing Personality

Is a person who takes tourists around the places of interest, on foot (walk about tour or walking tour) or on the bus (running or rolling tour). • Is expected to impart information to the guests during the tour.

Tour Guide

• Before entering a tour guiding career, being familiar with the tourism industry is beneficial. Understanding the industry's characteristics and trends, such as tourist types, motivation, and needs, influences the tour guide's service orientation. • To support their education, tour guides can pursue graduate studies, such as master's or PhD, to meet the academic requirements of ordinary tour guides. • Lecturers must have qualifications in education, public speaking, human behavior, research, and trends. This education broadens their horizons and prepares them to interact with more educated guests.

Guide E-Lecturer

Used to describe those who are generally employed to carry out courier and administrative tasks while accompanying a group on an extended tour of several days, probably over a considerable distance, involving a number of destinations. tour guiding comes into the picture while visiting famous attractions. • Overall, it is being a tour manager that is given emphasis, including meeting with prospective clients, attending local and international sales missions.

Tour Manager

This task covers the work of a service provider in a reception, social gatherings, special events such as product launching, soft opening of hotel, resort, recreational facility and other celebrations. • This also includes being assigned at the tour desk of an international event like APEC Leaders' meeting, tourism fora, travel expositions, etc. In some countries, they do coach stewards; escorts are also tour leaders of a group of tourists normally joining a cruise tour.

Escort

A professionally guided tour of the local and authentic food of destinations that may include food preparation, food tasting and hands-on demonstration and workshops.

Culinary Tour

a tour conducted on a regular basis.

Daily Run Tour

• ecology or preservation of the environment is the focus of an eco-tour. • various types of eco-tours can be availed according to the needs of the guests that involves both soft and hard activities.

Eco Tour

• visit to famous agri-farm sites that involves actual experience of picking, harvesting, planting of farm products, and other activities. • may include orientation about organic farming.

Farm Tour

• A visit to the museums as the main part of the tour.

Museum Tour

any type of tour specifically designed for a tourist based on his need and requirement like farm tourism, spa and wellness, agri-tourism, and others

Other Specially Arranged Tour

going to places of worship, and churches and religious statues and images are the main attraction of the tour.

Pilgrimage Tour

• participated by an individual or couple, or family which has the privacy of having their own schedule and specific itinerary, and private transportation.

Private Tour

joined by tour members, from different pick up points, but going to one and the same destination. They normally do not know each other prior to the tour.

Seat-In-Coach

• may be referred to as plant/company tour • normally, lectures are given on site, or in the facility provided, with audio-visual presentations about the company, product or process as the case may be.

Technical Tour

a type of tour where members have to do a lot of walking to see the different places of interests identified in the tour itinerary.

Walking Tour

• a visit to cemeteries of fallen heroes during the war, including markers and memorabilia in honor of the soldiers who fought and died.

War Memorial Tour

does city guiding and points the many different highlights of a city, usually doing this on a coach, van or any transport service. There are some instances that guests would go down and do some walking.

City Guide

guides who volunteer normally for a small museum or archive, often work for free.

Docents

a tour guide and driver at the same time. Performs guiding work while driving.

Driver Guide

a person who is not permanently connected with tour/travel agency and paid per trip.

Free Lance Guide

usually a member of a tribe, a native of a certain community who has a deep understanding of the cultural background of the people.

Indigenous Guide

a person competent enough to give information on a certain area or locality.

Local Guide

an expert on natural attractions.

Naturalist Guide

conducts a tour for an hour or more at a specific building, place or site like a museum curator who is well informed about the place.

On-Site Guide

service is on call basis, for an individual or small group, exclusive tour.

Personal Guide

guide whose expertise or skills are highly unique and not many of this type are available.

Specialized Guide

one who specializes in certain field such as arts, architecture, churches, flora and fauna, mountains, etc.

Specialist Guide

one who is permanently connected with a tour/ travel agency and paid per day or monthly basis.

Staff Guide

a guide who get on the bus to do the commentary normally about a certain facility, topic or site

Step-on Guide

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