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Essential Guide to Tour Guiding: Principles, Duties, and Responsibilities

Learn key principles and techniques of tour guiding, including protocols, duties, and tourism laws. Understand the role of a tour guide and practice in the right way, emphasizing ethics and morals. Discover what it takes to be a quality tour guide and the responsibilities involved in providing informative and engaging tours to various destinations.

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Essential Guide to Tour Guiding: Principles, Duties, and Responsibilities

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  1. IHT2317 Tourist Guide  

  2. IHT2317  Tourist Guide • Types of tourist guide • Tour guiding; principles and techniques • Protocols; duties and responsibilities • Personality and characteristics • Tourism related laws • Field trips

  3. Objective of the Course - Understand the role & duty of tour guide correctly and distinctly - Practice in the right way - Functional

  4. Morals Ethics The rules of conduct recognized in respect to a particular class of human actions or a particular group or culture Principles or habits with respect to right or wrong conduct. While morals also prescribe dos and don'ts, morality is ultimately a personal compass of right and wrong. Individual - Internal Social system - External

  5. To be a tour guide is “Everybody” To be a quality tour guide is “Some”

  6. What is a Tour Guide? Tour guides work in the travel industry, giving guided tours to groups of visitors. They are experts on the history of the location and offer their tour groups interesting or enlightening information about points of interest at nature attractions, historic sites, museums, scenic locations, and other travel destinations.

  7. Guides may give walking tours, bus tours, or even lead river tours on a boat. Often hired by visitors' bureaus or travel companies, tour guides are typically residents of the region in which they give tours.

  8. What does a Tour Guide do? A tour guide's duties depend on their location and employer. If they are self-employed, they will usually give tours of publicly accessible travel destinations like national parks or nature attractions. Those who are employed by a visitor's bureau or corporation offer tours of cities, industrial locations, or other points of interest..

  9. Assignment • 1.Introduce yourself (Oral Presentation & Paper) • 2. Why did you choose to study at SSRUIC • 3. What do you want to be in the future.

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