local guiding services

2. CORE CONCEPTS IN
TOUR GUIDING
SERVICES

4. Specific Objectives:
1. Define tour guide.
2. Identify the roles of a tour
guide.
3. Explain the roles of a guide.
4. Discuss the basic concepts in
tour guiding services.

5. Tour
-latin word tornare and
Greek word tornos meaning
to circle around.

6. What is the difference
between tour guide
and tour guiding?

7. Tour Guide
-is a person who guides
people as they go through a
foreign place.

8. Tour Guiding
-refers to the provision of
professional service to
interpret the cultural and
heritage site.

9. ROLES OF A
TOUR GUIDE

10. Attending briefing
meetings with
tour manager.

11. Greeting tourists
before starting the
tour.

12. Learning their
names and
memorizing their
faces.

13. Checking the
number of people
in the group.

14. Explaining emergency
procedures to the
group and making sure
they understand.

15. Distributing
promotional material
about the trip to the
tourists.

16. Escorting individuals or
groups on sightseeing
trips.

17. Providing information
about the history and
cultures of the places
they visit.

18. Pre-briefing
about the group.

19. Meeting the
group.

20. Going over
emergency
procedures with the
group.

21. Explaining points of
interest during the
trip.

22. Answering questions
about the tour.

23. Distributing
promotional
material.

24. Making sure the group
stays together and is
safe until the end of
tour.

25. ELEMENTS OF TOUR
GUIDING

26. 1. Professionalism
2. Service
3. Interpretation

27. 4. Physical
5. Characteristics of a
tour guide

28. ACTIVITY
TIME

29. Direction:
Arrange the jumbled words
and after which, provide
the definition

30. 1. NGARTIIN
2. ONITNERRPEATTI
3. STIOTUR
4. ROTU
5. UTOR IGUED

31. “Success is the sum of
small efforts repeated
day in and day out.”

32. Thank you for listening.