1. Mara Isabel Mendoza Mazón.
Tourist guide.
Hmw 5.
25/january/2013.
KINDS OF TOUR GUIDE.
• Free Lance: not permanently connected with any travel agency and paid per trip.
• Staff Guide: permanently connected with a travel agency, receives monthly salary.
• Local guide: a person competent enough to guide in a certain locality or area.
• Escort: 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.
• Specialist: a person who specializes in a certain field such as botany, architecture,
etc.
• Linguist: a person who speaks fluently two or more foreign languages.
• Driver guide: operates vehicle while providing commentary.
• On-site guide: conducts sightseeing and educational tours through site of interest.
• Step-on guide: conducts tours and provides commentary while traveling on a
vehicle.
• Transfer Guides: Those who receive the passengers in the terminals; dealing
mainly provide general information and reconfirming the destination programs
acquired by the passenger (hotels / tours / etc.). His main skills lie in-depth knowledge
of the standard procedures at airports and hotels: check in, flight reconfirmation,
luggage logistics, among others.
BIBLIOGRAPHY:
http://www.itsessential.ca/itsessential/itsessential_files/document_library/ola_tour_guid
e0905.pdf Centre for Canadian Language Benchmarks © August 2005
Principles and Ethics of Tour Guiding, Zenaida L. Cruz, rex printing company, 1999.