Brief History of Tour Guide

Travel & Tourism is a vast industry, which is known to provide numerous facilities, to people all around the world. Travel & Tourism is quite imperative, for many economies to survive, since, some of their source of income is dependent on travel and tourism.

New Frontier Touring is a tour booking agency based in Nashville, TN. They represent artists from the indie-rock, Americana, acoustic roots, folk, and jazz genres. With over 75 artists on their roster, technology is an important aspect of the company and keeping the business running. On a normal day, there are ten booking agents, two contract department workers, and at least two interns there at a time, each one on their own computer using technology.

The travel and tourism industry is a field of competitiveness. There is an extraordinary interest for visitor management which offers rises to the enormous amount of recommendations. New travel organizations are open each day and now existing ones broadens the field of activity. In the circumstances of a developing rivalry you have to have individual allure and relational abilities in spite of high expert aptitudes.

Henry Ou, Derrick Kwok, the President and the Vice President of Air & Sea Travel Center also serves as Tour Director of our company who would plan, organize, and conduct short-distance, long-distance travel, tours, and expeditions for individuals and groups. Mr. Ou and Mr. Kwok have experiences of planning and organizing trips, make sure everything runs according to the itinerary and make sure our valued clients safe and enjoy the trip. To be a successful Tour Director, personal skills and qualities are often more important than formal qualification. In memorable trip, our clients expect not only what they are going to visit, eat, and play, but also the excellent “people” skills of our Tour Directors who would bring them happiness, surprises, and make sure that arrangements for the group to run as smoothly and enjoyably as possible since the tourism industry is characterized by high-contact services in which co-creation of clients plays a major role (Grissemann & Stokburger-Sauer, 2012). Joylyn, Ina, and Phoebe are responsible for organizing and setting up the tour by making reservation for hotels, restaurants, cruises, gate tickets, and more. In most of the time, they would make a reservation earlier and deliver special requests to the service provider from the client in order to have availability to everyone in the group and make our client feel that they are valued because we listen and we care.

Many people like to spend their vacation in a different country and like to travel. It is always exciting to explore and discover new cities and cultures. Over the years the way to get to other countries became easier. The rate of international visitors is rising everywhere around the globe and tourism brings some good and bad aspects to each individual country. Due to traveling becoming more popular, Tourism has both benefitted and harmed nearly every country in the world.

Gillian Dale (2010). Travel and Tourism level 3 Book 1. Oxford: Pearson Education Limited. 122-124.

According to the article from a research by University College London , there are different kinds of guides that tourists can find in Peru which included university graduates who have high level of knowledge about tourism, official guides who trained in a vocational college that have not been trained well enough and untrained adventure guides who could be local people that know well enough about the region but not the knowledge about tourism and usually employ by travel agencies because they are cheap (McGrath, 2004). Therefore, the quality of guiding in Peru is not that average and reliable which need to be train and knowledge about tourism (McGrath, 2004).

Jobs in the tourism sector are all different and all of them follow with different duties and responsibilities, in this assignment I will be comparing two different jobs in the tourism sector, I will be focusing on receptionist at a hotel and air cabin crew. To compare these jobs I will be focusing on their duties and responsibilities of both jobs, I will also compare entry requirements for receptionist and cabin crew and also if both jobs could progress what can they promote to and what is the difference and similarities in both.

Since World War II, tourism has developed from a relatively minor activity to the world's largest industry. The travelling within more developed countries as well as from more developed countries to less developed countries generally increased. It also consists of

Is an experienced tour guide accompanying this tour throughout the journey or is the driver both the tour guide and driver?

In both Wilton Corkern’s article “Heritage Tourism: Where Public and History Don't Always Meet” and Barbara Kirshenblatt-Gimblett’s article “Destination Culture”, one of the elements that I liked in both of their articles was the introduction. I thought that the introduction not only helped me understand what their perspectives were on the subject of tourism, but it also helped me paint a mental picture of the place that they were describing by the “show and not tell method”. I also enjoyed how they invited the reader into their conversation and made the reader feel that they were part of the adventure themselves. This is one of the main academic moves of writing that I would like to accomplish in my own work. I want my potential audience members

Travel started to develop as a business many years ago. This industry began, when the ancient and rich inhabitants of Phoenicia, Rome, Egypt, Greece, and China; out of curiosity and a sense of adventure, about their surroundings, began to travel. Today tourism is a billionaire industry that serves the needs and wants of millions of domestic and international tourists. There is no doubt, that capitalism has played an active role in the developing of this powerful enterprise. However, when this business began, only the rich populations were able to enjoy their summers on the coasts and countryside. As these powerful people continue traveling, their servants have to cater for their patrons travel and accommodations needs and wants. As the Roman Empire decline, this business endured a backlash. In Central America the Incas had to travel to trade with the different racial groups, which were part of their empires to trade and collect taxes from their peasants.

Ceballos-Lascurain (1993) defined ecotourism as, “Environmentally responsible travel and visitation to relatively undisturbed natural areas, in order to enjoy and appreciate nature (and any accompanying cultural features - both past and present) that promotes conservation, has low negative visitor impact, and provides for beneficially active socio-economic involvement of local populations”.

Goeldner and Ritchie (1995) define tourism as a short term movement of people to places other than their normal place of residence and work, including the activities of persons travelling to and staying in locations outside their places of residence and work for not more than twelve months for the purpose of: leisure (recreation, vacation, health, study, religion and sport); and business family, mission and meetings.

The Travel and Tourism industry is still one of the largest single businesses in world commerce and its importance is widely recognized. The tourism industry is now one of the largest sectors earning foreign exchange. In the face of many benefits, many countries have started assigning due weight age to the tourism industry in their national development agenda. Tourism is an industry that operates on a massively broad scale: it embraces activities ranging from the smallest sea-side hotel; to air-lines, multi-national hotel chains and major international tour operators. Originally, non-traditional industries such as tourism emerged as a solution to strike a balance between ecology and industry