1. INTRODUCTION TO TOUR GUIDING
a) Tours
A tour is form of travel from one place to another with multiple features that can be packaged and
sold as a single unit.
A trip with visits to various places of interest for business, pleasure, or instruction complete trip,
usually including fare, accommodation, meals, ground transport, tour guides services, taxes, etc.,
in one all inclusive price.
This is an organized journey from a point of origin to another place which is the destination for
various reasons e.g. sightseeing, business, and medical purposes among others.
b) Tour guide
A tour guide is a professional who provides assistance, information on cultural, historical and
contemporary heritage interpretation to people on organized tours, individual clients, and
educational establishment at religious and historical sites and at venues of other significant interest
The guide is a professional who is expected to handle his duties in a professional manner. He is at
the frontline meeting clients and also spends a lot of time with the clients before they depart. For
all the glamour of escorting clients it is hard work and a chance of meeting disagreeable clients,
hitches or impediments of lifestyles, places or relationships
c) Tour guiding
This is the act of assisting tourists and/or excursionists with information about a particular tourist
destination and also showing them around the destination of which they may not be familiar with.
It is a skill used in leading a group of people during a tour.
d) Trip
Journey for some purpose (usually including the return) to the point of origin)
A trip is defined as each time a person travel/goes 100 miles away from home and returns.
e) Excursion
This is tour that lasts less than 24 hours in a particular tourist destination, usually for leisure or
educational purposes. The purpose of the tour must not be for work purposes for which the
remuneration is at the destination and also not to travel home