Tour Guiding Services Research Paper
BASIC TOUR GUIDING SERVICES
Preface
The Basic Tour Guiding Services is a reference material intended to serve as the main workbook for instructing Grade 11 students who enrolled in the applicable track under the K to 12 Basic Education Curriculum of the Philippines. It covers the core competencies prescribed in the TESDA Training Regulation, namely: (1) research information relevant to tour itinerary, (2) managing tour arrangements for visitors, and (3) accompanying visitors in accordance with the tour itinerary, with provision for on-the-job training. It is designed for learners to develop knowledge, skills and attitude to perform tour guiding tasks, leading to the acquisition of a National Certificate Level II (NCII) for Tour Guiding …show more content…
In this sense, the word “tour” refers to leaving and coming back to a point of origin.
However, not all forms of travel are considered as tourism. According to the United Nations World Tourism Organization (WTO 1991), tourism is
the activities of persons traveling to and staying in places outside their usual environment for not more than one consecutive year for leisure, business and other purposes, except activities remunerated from within the place visited. We can expand the WTO definition through the use of the 5W questions (what, who, where, when and why), for better appreciation.
Table 1: Definition of Tourism (Adopted from Santos and Manzano 2009)
WHAT What refers to the ‘activities’ that the travelers do when they go to a place, such as sightseeing, swimming, shopping, etc.
WHO Who refers to the persons who travel to and stay in another place
WHERE Where refers to the place that the traveler goes to or the destination; the phrase ‘outside their usual environment’ is used to exclude routine trips to work, school or other places within 50 miles or 80km from home (Goeldner and Ritchie …show more content…
Domestic tourists refer to the residents of a country who travel within their own country, such as a resident of Manila going to Boracay—a Filipino traveling in the Philippines. Outbound refers to residents traveling to another country like Filipinos going to Hong Kong Disneyland; while inbound refers to non-residents visiting a country other than their own, such as an American visiting the Philippines, from the point of view of a Filipino.
The three classifications mentioned above can be combined and further result to another set of three classifications:
1. Internal
a. Domestic
b. Inbound
2. National
a. Domestic
b. Outbound
3. International
a. Inbound
b. Outbound
From the point of view of Country A, both domestic and inbound tourists are involved in activities that happen within its internal territory, while both domestic and outbound tourism involves the travel of its citizens. Inbound and outbound tourists both partake in international tourism because they travel outside their respective countries of residence. (WTO, as cited in Wachowiak
Preface
The Basic Tour Guiding Services is a reference material intended to serve as the main workbook for instructing Grade 11 students who enrolled in the applicable track under the K to 12 Basic Education Curriculum of the Philippines. It covers the core competencies prescribed in the TESDA Training Regulation, namely: (1) research information relevant to tour itinerary, (2) managing tour arrangements for visitors, and (3) accompanying visitors in accordance with the tour itinerary, with provision for on-the-job training. It is designed for learners to develop knowledge, skills and attitude to perform tour guiding tasks, leading to the acquisition of a National Certificate Level II (NCII) for Tour Guiding …show more content…
In this sense, the word “tour” refers to leaving and coming back to a point of origin.
However, not all forms of travel are considered as tourism. According to the United Nations World Tourism Organization (WTO 1991), tourism is
the activities of persons traveling to and staying in places outside their usual environment for not more than one consecutive year for leisure, business and other purposes, except activities remunerated from within the place visited. We can expand the WTO definition through the use of the 5W questions (what, who, where, when and why), for better appreciation.
Table 1: Definition of Tourism (Adopted from Santos and Manzano 2009)
WHAT What refers to the ‘activities’ that the travelers do when they go to a place, such as sightseeing, swimming, shopping, etc.
WHO Who refers to the persons who travel to and stay in another place
WHERE Where refers to the place that the traveler goes to or the destination; the phrase ‘outside their usual environment’ is used to exclude routine trips to work, school or other places within 50 miles or 80km from home (Goeldner and Ritchie …show more content…
Domestic tourists refer to the residents of a country who travel within their own country, such as a resident of Manila going to Boracay—a Filipino traveling in the Philippines. Outbound refers to residents traveling to another country like Filipinos going to Hong Kong Disneyland; while inbound refers to non-residents visiting a country other than their own, such as an American visiting the Philippines, from the point of view of a Filipino.
The three classifications mentioned above can be combined and further result to another set of three classifications:
1. Internal
a. Domestic
b. Inbound
2. National
a. Domestic
b. Outbound
3. International
a. Inbound
b. Outbound
From the point of view of Country A, both domestic and inbound tourists are involved in activities that happen within its internal territory, while both domestic and outbound tourism involves the travel of its citizens. Inbound and outbound tourists both partake in international tourism because they travel outside their respective countries of residence. (WTO, as cited in Wachowiak