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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GUIDE SHOULD BRING: * Daily Report Form * Tour itinerary * Map * Confirmed booking/ purchase order of tour operator to the supplier * Copy of passenger’s e-ticket * Tour evaluation form * Lapel microphone * Flags * Stickers * Mobile phone with extra battery * Medical/ First-aid kit * Address book/ contact numbers of tour operator‚ tour suppliers and guests * Prizes for recreational activities or tour souvenirs for the guest (optional) * Umbrella
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Ghost tour in Copenhagen Wednesday the twenty-first of October a group of thirty students are taking a ghost tour in the centre of Copenhagen with the company Ghosttour.dk - a firm who promises a hair-raising experience and a chance to hear about all kinds of ghosts told by eyewitnesses and historically well-informed persons. The firm is owned by Nynne Vidgren who is Cand. Mag. in history and art history. Working for her are several tour guides with backgrounds as actors and history researchers
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Framework for Tour Operator Manual As we have seen during our classes‚ Tour Operators are one of the links in the holiday retail distribution chain. It is part of your task to put together and organize a package holiday to be sold through retail travel agents. The role of T.O.’s is to act as intermediaries in the retail distribution chain. They provide‚ for example‚ the link between the hotels‚ airlines‚ travel services such as transport companies‚ attractions‚ museums‚ car rental companies
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TRIUMPH TOURS I. PROBLEM Is Mr. Mendoza’s decision of leasing Hotel Continental will be beneficial for his company? II. SWOT ANALYSIS STRENGTHS: Has a convincing power to customers why they should patronize their services rather than their competitors’. Has the ability to generate greater value for the firm and its shareholders. Has surplus funds built up over a number of years. Has a unique and relevant strategy. Knows how to listen to customers. Protects any data collected against mishandling
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travel agents‚ tour operators etc. are considered the intermediaries (distributors). Their main task is to bring buyers and sellers in the field together and reduce transaction and supply/ownership costs between buyer and seller‚ instead of completely eliminating an intermediary (such as a distributor). Benefits of Tourism Intermediaries For the producer: * they are able to sell in bulk (for example: hotels) and might be able to transfer a certain risk to the * tour operator depending
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English for Tour Guides Being a tour guide is a very important job. In many cases‚ the tour guide is a traveller’s first impression of a foreign country. In other cases a tour guide may be responsible for teaching tourists about the culture and sites in a city or town. In addition‚ many tour guides hold the responsibility of teaching tourists about safety. Even if you are only responsible for taking a tourist from the airport to his or her hotel‚ it is your responsibility to make the short trip interesting
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Narrative Essay We‚ the students of BSBA went on a tour during March 5th to 7th. We visited the Banko Sentral ng Pilipinas‚ the Coca-cola plant‚ the Gardenia factory and stayed at Caliraya resort. We got onto the bus early to find our seats and to organize our things. Many of us were pumped with energy and were excited for the tour. At around 3:45AM‚ everything was good to go and we departed for Manila- many of my classmates were restless and too agitated to go to sleep. We arrived at our first
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WHAT IS A TOUR PACKAGE? DEFINITION Complete trip‚ usually including fare‚ accommodation‚ meals‚ ground transport‚ tour guides‚ taxes‚ etc.‚ in one all-inclusive price. Source: BusinessDictionary.com 1 TYPES & CHARACTERISTICS TOUR PACKAGE CATEGORIES Package tours can be broken down into six (6) specific tour types. Tours available range from Special Interest tours‚ Adventure tours‚ City or Regional tours‚ Group tours‚ Fully Escorted tours and Business tours. 2 ??????????????????????
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- 53 - INTERACTIVE MOBILE BASED TOUR GUIDE M.U.E.Wijesuriya1*‚ S.U.Mendis2‚ B.E.S.Bandara2‚ K.P.Mahawattage2‚ N.Walgampaya2‚ D. De Silva2 1 * Corresponding Author‚ Faculty of Computing‚ Sri Lanka Institute of Information Technology (SLIIT)‚ Malabe‚ Sri Lanka. Email: mshi_87@yahoo.com 2 Corresponding Author‚ Faculty of Computing‚ Sri Lanka Institute of Information Technology (SLIIT)‚ Malabe‚ Sri Lanka. ABSTRACT Sri Lanka being a popular tourist destination entertains a large number of tourists
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