This book provides an authoritative, state-of-the-art review of tour guiding scholarship and
research. It aims to foster best practice and to stimulate further study and research on tour …

This study investigates the challenges that professional Jordanian tourist guides may
encounter. The implication of this research stems from the fact that very little research, at …

While tourism as an academic major has been taught for decades in tertiary institutions
across the world, few studies have explored the perceptions of undergraduate tourism …

Tour guiding is a profession that involves intensive one-to-one communication with tourists
and employees from different sectors of the tourism industry along with long trips by bus …

This research was generated through my previous career as a tour guide in Vietnam. The
tourism industry has been developing over recent years in Vietnam, as will be evidenced by …

Tour guides play an integral role in ensuring safe tourism; however, exactly how to improve
tour guides' safety performance remains unclear. Two studies were conducted in this …

A key component of any destinations' culture is the country's indigenous population,
including the indigenous tour guides who convey the indigenous experience to the tourists …

Each year, millions of tourists visit Himalayas. Sensitive to outside influences, the Himalayan
environment of mountain areas has been abruptly exposed to it. The authorities of the …

Despite advances in the study of tour guiding, there has been limited exploration of the work
and life of tour guides, and even fewer studies seeking the views and perspectives of tour …

Fifty years since the first publication on tour guiding it is timely to assess the state-of-the-art
of theoretical and empirical research in this field to identify research strengths and …