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Eco-Tour Flashcards

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Plays an integral role, they are the first people to welcome the guests.

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Tour Guide

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Acts as ambassadors of the country. Someone who points out the way and leads others on a trip.

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Tour Guide

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Very critical component of the tourism chain. They play an essential role in ensuring repeat tourist visitation through creating positive image of our country.

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Tour Guide

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Interact and treat tourists very important because it gives lasting impression about the place in general. The code of conduct and ethics which the guide must sign in prescribe way in which way qualified, legally registered tourist guides must conduct whole on duty.

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Tour Guide

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the pioneer of the modern tour guide.

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Thomas Cook

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In 1841, he arranged for the transportation and food of 540 campaigners to a rally 11 miles away. For one shilling each person paid includes rail tickets and food. The first privately chartered excursion train to be advertised to the public.

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Thomas Cook

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In what year thomas cook offer the “grand circular tours” of Europe.

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1850

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In what year thomas cook introduce the Hotel Coupon

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1866

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Thomas Cook & Sons published Tourist’s Handbooks for the different countries of Europe.

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1847-1922

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  • is a person who owns a business which transports paying tourists on scheduled itineraries.
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Tour Operator

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  • package and sell holidays which are offered in a brochure with a fixed price for accommodation, transport and ground arrangements. At times the service of a courier or representative is included in the package.
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Tour Operator

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An individual, who, either as an employee or affiliate of a duly licensed travel & tour agency, GUIDE tourist, both foreign and domestic, for a fee, commission or any lawful form of remuneration.

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Tour Guide

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13
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  • states that traditionally the role of the guide has been focused on two issues one of “pathfinder” and one of “mentor”.
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Cohen (1985)

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Is described as one who leads others through social and natural areas unknown to its followers

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Pathfinder

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is embedded within the concepts of personal tutor and spiritual advisor and is described as “a specialist serving as a guru to the seeker, guiding towards insight and enlightenment”

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Mentor

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This is a person who manages a group’s movements over a multi-day tour.

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Tour Conductor

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is a person who manages an itinerary on behalf of the tour operator ensuring the programme is carried out as described in the tour operator’s literature and sold to the traveller/consumer and who gives local practical information.

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Tour Manager

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is about managing tours, it involves traveling with groups while staying with groups, controlling and entertaining people dealing with problems and at times guiding tours. The tour conductor can be with that group, depending on the type of tour for two to three weeks.

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Tour Conducting

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is usually for a shorter length of time. It refers to the specific activity at a sight or an attraction for a scheduled portion of time.

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Tour Guiding

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  • not permanently connected with any travel agency and paid per trip.
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Free Lance

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  • permanently connected with a travel agency, receives monthly salary.
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Staff Guide

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22
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What are the two kinds of Tour Guides

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Free Lance
Staff Guide

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TYPES OF TOUR GUIDES

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• On-Site or Local Guides

• City Guide or Escort

• Specialized Guide

• Step-on Guide

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A person competent enough to guide in a certain locality or area.

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On site or Local Guides

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A person who accompanies a group of tourists from the point of origin to the destination, and back to the origin. Usually handles group’s check in and check out.

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CITY GUIDE OR ESCORT

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Is a guide who specializes in a certain field such as botany, architecture, environment, marine life, etc.

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SPECIALIST

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A guide who joins a tour bus for a local sightseeing excursion.

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STEP ON GUIDE

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An Act Declaring A National Policy For Tourism As An Engine Of Investment, Employment, Growth And National Development, And Strengthening The Department Of Tourism And Its Attached Agencies To Effectively And Efficiently Implement That Policy, And Appropriating Funds Therefore.

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Republic Act 9593 or Tourism Act of 2009

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29
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Setting Popular Travel in Motion

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Renaissance

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  • Flourished beacause of festivals, shows, olympic Games.
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Ancient Empire

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Give Importance to pleasure travel

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Ancient Empire

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*The period between the fall of Rome and the Renaissance * Paid Large because they not only lead the weay but also generated safe conduct to the travelers.

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Middle Ages

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33
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The image of tour guides are improved

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Renaissance and Grand Tour

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Grand Tour Travelers of the 17th 18th Century.

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Renaissance and Grand Tour

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1841: The first excursion train to temperance meeting in England.

1856: the first grand tour in Europe to Paris.

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Modern Age

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36
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The first excursion train to temperance meeting in England.

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1841

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37
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the first grand tour in Europe to Paris.

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1856

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• The era of the great empire from 3,000 BC to 1 500AD.generated travel. The ancient Persians ,Assyrians and Egyptians travelled in a organized manner.

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Ancient Empire

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• During the era of the Greek Empire, tourism flourished. Festivals and shows among them the Olympic Games which begun in 776 В.С.

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Ancient Empire

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40
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-Leaders Around

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Periegetai

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41
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explainer

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Exegetai

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42
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whose function was to help fellow citizens travelling abroad.

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Proxemos

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was an early ethnographer and travel writer, a wealthy and well-educated man.

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Herodotus of Halicarnassus

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44
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The period between the fall of Rome and the Renaissance

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Middle Ages

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45
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  1. Path Finders
  2. Protectors
  3. Safety Escort
  4. Guide was paid a large fee because he not only led the way but also generated safe conduct to the travelers
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Middle Ages

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• It was during this period that young men of the upper class travelled from Britain on the Grand Tour, a prescribed route from England through France, Germany, Austria, Switzerland to Italy which was the destination.

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Renaissance and the Grand Tour

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47
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The journey was taken for educational and cultural reasons, the individual or groups usually assigned to personal tour, who was called.

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bear leader, antiquarii or cicerone

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• The three well-known European writers who visited the New World in the nineteenth century -Charles Dickens, Francis Trollope and Alexis de Tocqueville

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Modern Age

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• The three well-known European writers who visited the New World in the nineteenth century

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-Charles Dickens, Francis Trollope and Alexis de Tocqueville

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The First Tourist Guide

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Thomas Cook

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In what year thomas Cook organizes his first excursion return rail journey from Leicester to a temperance (anti- alchohol) meeting in Loughborough, 12 miles away.

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1841

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In what year Thomas Cook organizes his first for-profit trip a rail journey to Liverpool from Leicester, Nottingham and Derby.

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1845

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53
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Thomas Cook conducts his first continental tour, taking two parties from Harwich to Antwerp, O then on to Brussels, Cologne, Heidelberg, Strasbourg and, finally, to Paris for the International Exhibition.

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1855

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In what year Cook welcomes his son, John Mason Cook, aged 30, to the business.

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1864

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Thomas Cook opens his first high-street shop in Fleet Street, London.

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1865

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John Mason Cook personally conducts the company’s first American tour.

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1866

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57
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Thomas Cook escorts his first party to Egypt and Palestine.

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1869

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58
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The official name of the company becomes Thomas Cook & Son.

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1871

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59
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Thomas Cook organizes and leads the world’s first round-the-world tour.

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1872/73

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A precursor of the travelers check, “Cook’s Circular Note” is launched by the company in New York.

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1874

61
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Thomas Cook’s first cruise sails the seas around Scandinavia, when the firm develops the ‘Midnight Sun’ tour to Norway’s North Cape in collaboration with the Bergen Line.

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1875

62
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In what year John Mason Cook, now in charge of the company, launches a new fleet of luxurious Nile steamers to cater to the cream of Victorian society.

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1886

63
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In what year Thomas Cook dies, aged 83.

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1892

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Gaining and enriching experience that applies directly to the interests of the tourists.

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Special interest traveler

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Includes Culinary trips, meditation trips.

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Special interest traveler

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Seeking break from everyday life.

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Leisure Traveler

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Focus on recreation, entertainment and pleasure.

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Leisure Traveler

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Popular in some regions especially in historic places that lend in some way to the currisulum of the school.

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Student Traveler

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For educational trips, or leasure trips for the students.

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Student traveler

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Large group of tourists, often family friends / individuals within the group.

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Group Travelers

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Oftern get special promo because of the large number of individuals

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Group Travelers

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Visiting a Region to conduct Business such as sales, research, meetings and conferences

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Business traveler

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Sightseeing is the secondary trip

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Business traveler

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People who work for business purposes.

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Business traveler

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Not part of the large group but rather fall under the category of a family, senior, separated with insurance.

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Family senior / Single Vacationers

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Travel alone in small groups

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Explorer

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Do not require special tourist

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Explorers

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Offers little treat to local residents

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Explorers

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Large group of middle class tourists who visits popular sites.

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Mass tourist

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Needs help of the tourist guides.

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Mass tourist

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People who are given trips by the companies as a reward for their accomplishments or motivate them to achieve more than what required

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Incentive traveler

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Offers easiest and often only way top gain access to some points.

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Group Travelers

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Avoid crowds other tourists and typical sightseeing

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Off-beat tourist

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Arrive in large groups

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Charter tourist

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The impact in local residents are great.

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Charter tourist

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Adapts well to local lifestyle and amenities and pose few problems with local residents

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Off-beat tourist

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Represents business and vacation travelers

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Incipient mass tourist

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Travel individually or in small groups.

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Incipient Mass Tourist

89
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Can afford to spend too much on their tour

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Elite travelers

90
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Demand comfort in some of the amenities

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Elite travelers

91
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Demand more amenities and look unusual, adventurous or primitive experience

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Unusual tourist

92
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Visit Area principally for pleasure or specialized trip

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Family Travelers

Senior Citizens

Clubs or Affinity Groups

Public Tour Groups

93
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Information you need so your never left hunting for an address or a phone number.

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Itinerary

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Giving peace of mind and simplify your travel routines.

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Itinerary

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Schedules sites for chronological order

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Itinerary

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The route of a journey or tour or the proposed outline of one

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Itinerary

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Traveler’s guidebook and diary

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Itinerary

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Proposed preliminary itinerary

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Skeletal itinerary

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Specifies the details like scheduled transportation, arrival/ departure time, duration of sightseeing, travel time, types of accommodation and the like.

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Technical itinerary

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Includes a description of planned activities and destinations visited.

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Descriptive Itinerary

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Setting objectives to be achieved, customer - focused, destination- oriented, financial or corporate by the tour operator.

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Planning

102
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  • Negotiating and collecting from identified suppliers agreed rates and
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Contracting

103
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facilities that principally provides recreation, amusement、、 or leisure activities to the general public with the majority of its visitors residing in the immediate area of attractions.

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Tourist attractions

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  • main purpose is to grab the customers attention so they come to a certain place and explore the different attractions on holiday. Place of interests where the tourists visit.
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Attractions

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such as Boracay Island and El Nido Palawan - White Sand Beaches.

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Natural Attractions

106
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Basilica Minore de Sto. Nino of Cebu City, Sikatuna Marker in Bohol, and the hospitable people.

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Cultural Attractions

107
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Golf Clubs in the country and diving club.

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Recreational Activities

108
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Ati - Atihan in Kalibo, Aklan, Sinulog Festival Cebu itv.

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Religious festivals

109
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accessibility of a destination in terms of travel time, type of equipment, convenience and safety by air, land or sea. Cost is the major concern and the availability of the transportation fro movements within the destination whether public or private.

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Transportation

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availability of facilities such as lodging, both in terms of quality and quantity, and variety of food and beverage outlets are also basic considerations. Additional facilities of the destinations are souvener and handieraft shops.

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Facilities

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the degree of development of basic infrastructure, such as electricity, sewage and drainage and communications.

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Infrastructure

112
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identifying a sight to view and admire, an activity to participate in and experience, or an activity to learn from to enhance one’s knowledge.

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Attractions

113
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-the general public attitude towards visitors and language facilities will enhance the Desirability of the destination to the travelers.

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Hospitality Resources

114
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Historically been used to ednote a form of low-cost, independent international travel.

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Backpacking

115
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Backpackers constitued a heterogeneous group with’, respect to the diversityof rationals and meanings attacjed to thier travel experiences.

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Backpacking

116
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Commonplace of low-cost airlines, hostels or budget accommodation in many parts of the world.

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Backpacking

117
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Common commitment to a non-institutional form of travel, which was central to thier self- identification as backpackers.

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Backpacking

118
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ENAT

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European Network for Accessible Tourism

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free destination: infrastructures and facilities

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Barrier

120
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by air, land and sea, suitable for all users

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Transport

121
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delivered by train staff

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High quality services

122
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exhibits, attractions: allowing participation in tourism for everyone

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Activities

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booking systems, Websites & services for all (i.e. accessible information)

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Marketing

124
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The act of traveling to a disater area as a matter of curiosity

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Disaster Tourism

125
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✓ The behavior can be nuisance if it hinders other, relief and recovery operations

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Disaster Tourism

126
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✓ If not done because of purse curiosity, it can be cataloged as disaster learning.

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Disaster Tourism

127
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the act of visiting a city or town, to see a music festival or other music performances.

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Music Tourism

128
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This can include attending music festivals, concerts, or other live performances. Music tourism is particularly significant for both small villages, such iconic Glastonbury, cities like Glasgow. as and the large

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Music Tourism

129
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is human space travel for recreational or leisure purposes. It’s divided into different types, including orbital, suborbital, and lunar space tourism.

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Space Tourism

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is a commercial activity related to space that includes going to space as a tourist, watching a rocket launch, going stargazing, or traveling to a space-focused destination

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Space Tourism

131
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Lists of flown Space Tourists

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Dennis Tito

Mark Shuttleworth

Gregory Olsen

Anousheh Ansari

Charles Simonyi

Richard Garriott

Sheikh Muszaphar Shukor

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Dennis Tito (American)

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April 28 - May 6, 2001

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Mark Shuttleworth (South African / British)

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April 25 - May 5, 2002

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Gregory Olsen (American)

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October 1 - October 11, 2005

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Anousheh Ansari (Iranian / American)

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September 18 - September 29, 2006

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Charles Simonyi (Hungarian)

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April 7 - April 21, 2007

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✓ Richard Garriott (American)

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October 12 - October 23, 2008

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Sheikh Muszaphar Shukor (Malaysian)

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October 10 - October 23, 2007

139
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refers to traveling abroad to get dental treatment.

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Dental tourism

140
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Also known as health tourism, refers to the act of travelling to another destination for the purpose of medical treatment.

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Medical Tourism

141
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may seek life-saving treatments unavailable to them at home, cosmetic surgery or dental procedures amongst a range of other medical needs. Popular destinations include India, Turkey and Panama.

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Medical tourists

142
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is a simulation of an existing location, usually composed of a sequence of videos, still images or 360-degree images.

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Virtual Tour

143
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is often used to describe a variety of videos and photographic-based media.

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Virtual Tour

144
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Five Roles of Tour Guide

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Leader

Educator

Public Relations Representative

Host

Conduit

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Qualities of a Tour Guide

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Knowledge of the Tour Area.
Strong Empathy and Understanding.
Keen Ability to Improvise and Adapt.
Ability to Communicate Effectively.
Charismatic Personality.
Focuses on Building Rapport.
Timeliness and Punctuality.
Engaging Storyteller and Actor.
Flexibility.
Eagerness to Learn and Willingness to Teach Others.

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Other Terms for Tour Guides

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-Tourist Guide

-Local Guide

-City Guide

-Sightseeing Guide

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