role of tour guide

• Survey of Kathleen Pond on the role of tour

  guides

  Maintaining control of a group

  Dessiminating information

  Efficiently getting people as to many sights as possible

  Teaching history

  Representing a city in a favorable way
• Educating the Guide

  Identity is the collective set of characteristics of a person or a thing,

  including its standards and its values.

  Image is the perception others have toward it.
• Identity is the collective set of characteristics of a person or a thing,

  including its standards and its values.

  Image is the perception others have toward it.
• Teacher based learning thru evaluation on students

  Guides relay information within a requested time without assessing tourist
• Teacher addressed students thru their level of ages


  Tour Guides addressed tourist in any level
• Teacher based education on the ages of students

  Guides is flexible and relate their task to any age of society
• Teacher assessed students in a required period of calendar days


  Guides job only upon the sites and tour in a specific time and day
• Teacher primarily role is to educate


  Guide is on a multifunction type
• Student are obliged to go on attendance


  Guides guest are free to leave if they want
• Well-trained guides enhance the overall tourist experience and

  satisfaction, leading to repeat visits and positive destination

  image formation . Training helps guides acquire relevant knowledge and skills, such as in-depth understanding of sights, presentation techniques, and effective interaction with tourists
• An innate personality to when should guide be silent, encourage,

  move on and step back.
• Handle more on social phenomenon. Maintain adequacy in

  information thru response from questions, deliberate comfortable

  task in guiding.
• Project a specific image and affirm response from a controversial

  message or inquiry.
• Travel stimulates the exchange of knowledge.

  Image is the perception others have toward it.
• Instrumental

  social
• The leader

  The educator

  The public relations representative

  The host

  The conduit