English Tour Guide Practice Tutor

Author: Zhu Hua
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Publish Date: 2004-08-01
Features: The "Practical English Tour Guide Handbook" aims to cultivate the professional knowledge and practical skills of English tour guides in using English to lead groups. This book elaborates on tour guide professional knowledge, guiding techniques, and provides writing examples, making it suitable for students of tourism management, tourism English, and tour guide majors in tourism colleges. The entire book includes simulated questions and scoring standards for English tour guide qualification exams, serving as an ideal training textbook and a practical reference for tour guides during group tours. This book focuses on developing the practical working abilities of English tour guides, helping students obtain their English tour guide qualification certificates, guiding tour guides to solve various problems they encounter or may encounter during group tours, familiarizing them with tour service standards, and cultivating their ability to analyze and solve problems. The book features a novel format, comprehensive content, and has the following characteristics:
1. Emphasizes the foundational role of tour guide professional knowledge in guiding group tours, elaborates on the main content of tour guide regulations, and is written in a question-and-answer format, concise and to the point, making it convenient for tour guides to refer to during work and for exam candidates to grasp the key points of tour guide regulations.
2. Focuses on cultivating tour guides' ability to adapt, by analyzing and solving common problems encountered during group tours, thereby improving their ability to handle unexpected situations. The book includes 65 tour guide adaptability test questions, helping tour guides prepare various emergency plans for different situations and take appropriate measures.
3. Highlights the importance of writing in guiding group tours. Tour application documents, such as tourism contracts, tourism agreements, and tour route designs, are an important part of this book.
4. Explores basic tour guide explanation methods. Students, candidates, and tour guides can apply these explanation techniques to tour commentary, improving their practical ability to explain scenic spots in English through learning various explanation methods.
5. Scenic spot knowledge questions are one of the key components of tour guiding and the English tour guide qualification exam. This book proposes 3-5 scenic spot knowledge questions for each major scenic spot in Sichuan, covering historical and cultural background, folk customs, myths and legends, and scientific principles.
6. To meet the practical needs of tour guides, this book appends tour guide travel forms, tourism professional terms, and commonly used tourism abbreviations, making it a practical reference for tour guides during group tours.