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    This document discusses research methods for tour guides. It explains that a tourist site involves more than just visual sights, including the other senses. A tourist site contains attractions that draw visitors and comprises destinations that also include transportation and amenities. Good tourism sites sell unique experiences through culture, history and activities. Research methods for tour guides include defining objectives, gathering information from various sources, and arranging it to match the needs and interests of tourists, with an introduction, descriptions of places visited, and conclusion.

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    TOURIST SITE AND SITE FEATURES

    &
    RESEARCH METHODS IN TOUR
    GUIDING
    Tourist Site and Sight Features

    -A tourist site is different from a tourism sight.

    - A tourist site involves not only the sense of sight but also the other senses as well-----
    Touch Smell

    Sound Taste
    The later (Sight Features) refers to what the eyes can see, such as beautiful sceneries.

    A tourist site contains one or more tourist attractions, which may be a sight, event, the site’s history, an accommodation facility, a form of transportation, and the like. One or more tourist sites
    comprises a destination. A tourist destination also includes access and amenities.
    Access refers to transportation vehicles and infrastructure.
    Vehicles could be bus, cars, trains, or aircraft.
    Infrastructure could be roads railways, airports, seaports, and terminals.
    Amenities include banks, internet access and mobile phone signal, health facilities and the like.
    A tourism site could be a privately owned or government owned. It could be a complex, an island, a city, or a province.
    How do we characterize an excellent tourism site?
    Here in the criteria:
    1. Must sell a “signature experience,” which is authentic and unique, engages a variety of
    senses, and offers opportunities to experience in terms of culture, history, cuisine, and people;
    2. Must meet international demand, which is based on understanding the target tourists, and meeting their expectations; and

    3. Must practice a high standard of international marketing, which includes a functional website, high resolution and rights-
    free images, video clips, social media campaigns, willingness to host familiarizations tours, and links with suppliers and
    partners.
    RESEARCH METHODS IN
    TOUR GUIDING
    Research Methods in Tour Guiding

    The Merriam-Webster Dictionary defines research as “careful study and investigation for the purpose of discovering and
    explaining new knowledge.” In basic education, we learn that the process of careful and systematic study sometimes referred to as
    scientific methods starts by asking a question and coming up with research objectives before gathering facts and evidence.
    The same goes for tour guide when they are doing research to prepare for their tour.

    The first step is to define what the tour guide would like to find out or share with the tourists before going
    through the aforementioned sources of information. The tour guide must also know the type of tourists who
    will join the tour.
    As noted by the Canadian Tourism
    Commission, the product must meet the
    demand, which means the type of information
    gathered and how the information is arranged
    should match the needs of the tourists.
    Concluding remain must also be included.
    This format can be used in arranging the information:

    1. Introduction of the tour guide


    2. General description of the country and the city
    3. Specific places to be visited during the tour
    4. Description of these places, nothing interesting facts
    5. Concluding remarks

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