A tour guide (or tourist guide) provides assistance‚ information and cultural‚ historical and contemporary heritage interpretation to people on organized tours‚ individual clients‚ educational establishments‚ at religious and historical sites‚ museums‚ and at venues of other significant interest.[1] They (normally) have a recognized national or regional tourist guide qualification. The CEN (European Committee for Standardization) definition for "tourist guide" (part of the work by CEN on definitions
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TM231 Heritage vs. History As a society we are always looking to the past for many reasons‚ to learn from our mistakes‚ successes‚ experiences‚ to have a better understanding of where you come from‚ the list goes on. Society takes a personal view on what is or isn’t historical and what makes something important or not. There are two ways to distinguish the past‚ history and heritage. The history tends to be the cold hard facts‚ the truth with no emotion‚ no personal reference. Heritage has more
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HERITAGE AND CULTURAL TOURISM TABLE OF CONTENTS INTRODUCTION Tourism is third largest industry in the world and according to the report of World travel and Tourism Council tourism industry generates approx 12% of world GNP (Agyei and Samuel‚ 2006). Heritage and culture has always been one of the most significant aspects of world tourism. People live their lives against rich environment formed by historic buildings‚ countryside’s of ancient times (Chang‚ 2000). This present research report
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BUS 2913 Sustaining Cultural Identity through Tourism and Events Assessment item 2 Class Debates under the General Theme: “The Importance of Preserving Heritage and Culture for the Growth of Tourism” DUE Date: Week 11 Weighting: Debate Presentation: 15% (Group Assessment) Written Debate Notes: 10% (Individual) The objective of the debate is to challenge other’s facts and opinions with those of your own. Debating is a fun and entertaining way to develop
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Cescily Thomas-McKoy Professor Katherine Whitman Professor Peter Antoniou BUS/ECO 123 June 11‚ 2012 Summary: Cultural Tourism and Cultural Heritage Management This book seeks to provide the reader or tourist with insights on how the two worlds‚ tourism and cultural heritage management intersect‚ but also how they conflict in that they represent opposite sides of cultural tourism itself. The book outlines for the reader that while tourism professionals evaluate the potential for profit
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Use‚ Walker focuses on the mother‚ the narrator‚ and her two daughters‚ Dee and Maggie. The two girls are very different in personalities and identities. They both have different views of their heritage. I think it was clever of Alice Walker using the quilts to show how each girl felt about their heritage. Walker did a fantastic job at describing the mother. The mother is the narrator of the story and starts off dreaming about how she really wanted her family. She was the kind of woman that had
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Introduction The Heritage Assessment Tool (HAT) is a set of questions used to examine an individual’s ethnic‚ cultural and religious heritage. HAT can be used to understand an individual’s health traditions. The answers to the questionnaire can be used to evaluate how an individual views of health maintenance‚ health protection and health restoration. The author will review three different individuals culture heritage using the HAT. The cultures that are being compare for differences in health
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tourism destinations. The region is renowned for its natural beauty and endowed with rugged mountain landscapes‚ large glaciers‚ sweeping valleys and other features such as forests‚ rivers‚ lakes‚ snowcapped peaks and meadows. This dramatic natural heritage is complemented by the Gilgit
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different sides of heritage and culture in the characters of the three people with their different qualities and ideologies in life. The mother is a candid country woman who valued heritage and culture for its usefulness as well as its significance by living and doing simple things in life. She shows contempt for Dees materialistic approach to her heritage. Maggie is the shy‚ passive sister who is similar to her mother in her simple way of life and her way of approach to heritage. Dee follows a
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d) Big Ben e) Tower of London II) Historic Buildings and Monuments Commission for England a) English Heritage b) How it is run and missions c) Funding d) Membership III) Modern architecture in England a) International Architecture b) Brutalist architecture c) High-Tech Architecture d) Postmodern Architecture England owns a rich cultural and architectural heritage. Indeed‚ tourists are massively streaming to London or in different part of England‚ in order to discover masterpieces
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