Tour Guiding: A Training Manual & Professional Approach of Guiding in Tourism - Paperback

by Chiranjib Kumar C. (Author)

A complete training manual for aspiring tourist guide, escorts and tourism students. The book contains a professional approach of guiding and covers almost all important points that is required to become a perfect and demanding tour guide.It covers guiding concept, environment, ethics, role and responsibilities, story telling techniques, commentary, skills and qualities, etiquette of guide, do's and don'ts, dealing with difficult questions, presentation, describing monuments and cultural products, planning tour to packaging, dealing with emergency, Guide Association, Guidelines for obtaining training and license etc..This book facilitates easy to learn platform to its readers to become a perfect guide. The book is a complete training manual that helps in professional development. It contains a dynamism of tourism. It also covers tour guiding modules of various universities and institutions imparting vocational education in travel and tourism management

Author Biography

Dr. Chiranjib Kumar, (PhD in Tourism & Hospitality, MPhil, MTM, BTS, FOM, PIDT) is a noted academician, trainers and dynamic researcher in tourism and hospitality domain. He has extensive experience of tourism and hospitality industry. His book on "Ecotourism Planning Development & Marketing" and "Ecotourism Principles Economics & Project Designing" are some of the best books on Ecotourism. Recently he published a non-fiction satire titled " A Conman in Solitary Confinement" which is based on real story of ten Indians in foreign Country. At presents he is associated with Gambella University, Ethiopia(Africa) a Govt. University under Ministry of Education. He has published a large number of qualitative research papers, articles, case studies and book reviews on tourism and hospitality subjects. He has also presented a large number of research papers in international and national conferences. He believes in implementable research, effective tourism modelling and entrepreneurship development. Tourism is his religion and Hospitality is passion.