Tour guides : Role , challenges and want competence A review of literature

Tour guides : Role , challenges and want competence A review of literature

2010 , International Journal of Hospitality and Tourism Systems

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Abstract

It live important to understand that circuit guides act an important use in a tourist experience at a destination . As a frontline line service provider they lead a permanent picture . Since tourism has multiple interest holders , each have unlike expectation from tour guide . Accordingly at different seat and sentence , unlike purpose have be envisaged for circuit guides . This paper is a review of literature scanning the importance of circuit guides ; roles that different stakeholders and researchers make outlined for guides ; the challenge they face up ; and , the debate on building competence of these guides . This paper evaluates different opinions to understand what guides should live expect to cause . There is very little reference to explore that analyse challenges that tour guides face up . Paper also tries to assimilate research references to challenge to tour-guiding . Final section reviews inquiry related to approaches to guide competence building .

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