Introduction

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”A tour guide is a person who leads groups of people around a town, museum, or other tourist venue. The tour guide provides a commentary on the features and history of the location, the tours can be from as little as 10-15 minutes to extended periods over many days. Considerable importance is placed on the guide’s knowledge of local stories, history and culture depending on the location of the tour – http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tour_guide Wikipedia:Tour Guide August 2007

This is a course for learning or validating the skills and duties involved in tour guiding for a tourism organisation.

Your lecturer’s  David Seath and Hillary Jenkins welcome you. We will be guiding you through this course – hopefully challenging and inspiring you and bringing to life just exactly what a tour guide does.

David has a varied  background (as you will no doubt find out) but currently he spends most of his time taking groups rock climbing, tramping and mountaineering in the wonderful NZ outdoors. 

The following slideshare is an overview of the different job opportunities available in the guiding industry.

This year we want you to contribute to the blog so in our first session we will sort this out and I will invite you to make your first post.

Tomorrow  Chris (one of your fellow students) will be showing us some map reading and compass skills and then we will be trying using our communication skills a different way eg. hand held radios – “This is Hillary signing out” Over.