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The text (script) is the material which is necessary for the full disclosure of all the sub-themes that make up the guided tour. The text is intended to provide a thematic focus of the guide's story, it formulates a certain point of view on the facts and events to which the excursion is devoted, provides an objective assessment of the attractions which are presented.
Requirements for the text: brevity, clarity of formulations, the required amount of factual material, the availability of information on the topic, the full disclosure of the topic, the literary language.
The control script (the main script) in most cases contains a chronological presentation of the material. The control text is carefully selected and verified by the sources of material, which are the basis for all guided tours conducted on this topic.
Using the provisions and conclusions of the control text, the guide builds his own text (a tour guide's script).
In addition to the materials for the guide's description, the control text includes materials that should form the content of the introductory word and the conclusion of the tour, as well as logical bridges. It should be easy to use. Quotations, figures and examples are accompanied by references to sources.
Questions
1. What‘s the difference between the main script and a guide‘s script of a guided tour?
2. Does the main script cover all the topics of the tour?
3. Does it contain detailed descriptions of an attraction or does it give only brief information?
4. Can you use the conversational language in the main script?
5. What is the guide‘s script based on?
Completing a tour guide's portfolio
A tour guide‘s portfolio is a set of visual aids and handouts used during the tour.
All these materials are usually placed in a folder or a small portfolio.
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One of the tasks of the "guide's portfolio" is to restore the missing links in the presentation. It often turns out that not all the attractions that are necessary for the theme disclosure are preserved. For example, sightseers cannot see a historic building, that hasn‘t survived; a village that was destroyed during the Great Patriotic War, and other attractions. Sometimes it becomes necessary to give an idea of the original form of the place where the building (residential neighborhood) was built. For this purpose, for example, photographs of a village or wasteland, panoramas of the construction of an enterprise, a residential area are used.
In excursions, there is a need to show photographs of people who are related to this attraction or events associated with it.
A more convincing guided tour is made by demonstration of copies of original documents, manuscripts, literary works, about which the guide tells.
And another important task of visual aids is to give a visual representation of the attraction.
The guide‘s portfolio includes photographs, maps, diagrams, drawings, samples of products, etc. Such "portfolios" are completed generally for each topic. Museums, exhibitions, archives provide a great help in selecting visual materials for the "portfolio".
Questions
1. What is a guide‘s portfolio? What does it contain?
2. Are all the pictures of tourist attractions to be shown included in a guide‘s portfolio?
3. How important do you think it is to show photos of the attractions that don‘t exist any longer?
Selection of delivering methods
The success of the guided tour is directly dependent on the techniques of presentation and narration. The choice of this or that methodical technique is dictated by the tasks set before the guided tour and the volume of the information to be given about the attraction.
The work at this stage involves several parts:
- selection of the most effective techniques to cover subtopics depending on the type of tour participants (adults, children), the time of the tour (winter, summer, day, evening), the features of the presentation;
- definitions of techniques to keep the tourists‘ attention and activate the perception process of sightseeing material;
- development of recommendations on the use of expressive means in the speech of the guide;
- guiding techniques selection.
Questions
1. What guiding techniques are used in tour guiding?
2. What things should be taken into account when choosing a guiding technique?
Guiding techniques
The technique of conducting the tour unites all the organizational issues of the excursion process. The designers of the coach guided tour, for example, carefully think over when and where the tourists go for an on-site presentation, how the tourists travel between the attractions, how and when the exhibits of the "guide's portfolio" are displayed, and so on. Corresponding entries are entered in the column of a tour guide's manual under the headline "Organizational instructions". These instructions are also addressed to the bus driver. For example, where to put the bus, where you need to go slower to observe the attraction from the window. Separate instructions apply to excursionists (observance of safety rules on the street, getting on and off the coach, etc.).
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It is important to formulate some recommendations about making use of pauses in the tour; keeping to the time-limit when speaking on the sub-themes and answering the tourists‘ questions; on the technique of using the exhibits of the "portfolio"; on the procedure for laying wreaths, on the place of the guide when showing the attractions, guidespeak when the coach moves, etc.
Questions
1. What do guiding techniques imply?
2. What is an on-site presentation?
3. Where can the guide find all the instructions how to conduct a tour?
4. What recommendation may be included in a guide‘s manual?
