Interpretation and Tour Leadership: Principles and Practices of Tour Guiding is a complete manual to tour guiding that is based on the author’s first-hand experience of training more than 3000 tour guides. With a practical hands-on focus, it guides the reader through the key roles and responsibilities of a tour guide from interpretation techniques, leading visitors in difference scenarios, dealing tricky situations to setting up a tour guiding business. Packed with real life international case studies, each chapter follows a thorough pedagogic structure which includes features such as training objectives, key terms, theory highlights, assignments, further reading and links to videos.
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A complete manual to tour guiding based on the author’s first-hand experience of training more than 3000 tour guides. Packed with real life international case studies, each chapter follows a thorough pedagogic structure with features such as training objectives, key terms, theory highlights, assignments, further reading and links to videos.
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Ch 1 Introduction to tourist guiding; Ch 2 The Tourist; Ch 3 Becoming a tourist guide; Ch 4 The art of Interpretation; Ch 5 Planning for guiding; Ch 6 Preparing for a tour; Ch 7 The walks; Ch 8 Guiding on a cultural tour; Ch 9 Guiding on a Nature Tour; Ch 10 Professional challenges in guiding; Ch 11 The business of tourist guiding; Appendices; Index
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Product details

ISBN
9781911635956
Published
2022-06-27
Publisher
Goodfellow Publishers Limited; Goodfellow Publishers Limited
Height
246 mm
Width
189 mm
Age
P, 06
Language
Product language
Engelsk
Format
Product format
Innbundet
Number of pages
256