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Showing 1 to 20 of 39 for “"Tour guides"”.
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Responsibilities of Tour Guides in Religious Tourism
Leiðsögumaður í trúartengdri ferðaþjónustu ber á margan hátt sömu ábyrgð og leiðsögðumaður í hverri annarri ferðaþjónustu. Ástæða þess er sú að ferðamenn í trúartengdri ferðaþjónustu upplifa oft dýpri og sterkari tilfinningar en í annars konar ferðaþjónustu, sem eykur mikilvægi virðingar og …
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Analysing visitors’ emotions, testing the DRAMMA model, and using reflective practice for guided walk development
… demonstrating how these concepts influence the tourism experience. The study advances understanding by offering a pragmatic insight into visitor emotions during co-creation. To achieve the aims, a study of Facebook posts was performed to understand the ties between current and former residents …
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The Construction of Destination Images in Jordan: Modelling Tour Guide and Tourist Inputs, Interactions and Consequences
… and extensively researched as a key factor in tourism development. However, the construction of destination image during the tourist consumption experience has suffered from a paucity of theorisation, not only in regard to patterns of destination image as perceived by tourists during a visit, …
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Developing the English oral competency of tourism industry students by means of a genre-based ESP approach
… of the English oral competency of Thai tourism industry students and determine how far practical needs superseded theoretical demands. It was done firstly, by examining an, blending genre and ESP theories in order to establish a genre-based ESP oral English teaching method, and secondly, …
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Determinants of Customer Satisfaction in Tourism: A Case of Kilimanjaro National Park, Marangu Gate-Tanzania
… KINAPA visitors, TANAPA and KINAPA staff, and tour guides from July 16-28, 2012.. Data were analyzed using SPSS version 17.0 to estimate the main scores and percentage. The findings reveal that five main factors are considered important for determining customer satisfaction at KINAPA. The most …
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From the Museum of Lost Smells
<p>Two teenage girls get summer jobs as tour guides at a Christian corporation's Poverty-Around-the-World display. A man seduces women with the nostalgia of smell. A young couple finds passion while waiting at a traffic light. These and other stories in the collection explore themes of loneliness, …
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Tour Guide Translator
Tour Guide Translator is an app that allows tour guides to talk in their language and the tourist can listen to them in their language in real time. Tour guide creates a room for a certain trip and the tourist join the room. Tourists can also send questions to the tour guide in their language and …
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Authenticity in the Ancient East – Who Cares? A qualitative stakeholder investigation of commodification and authenticity in the portrayal and consumption of heritage in ‘Ireland’s Ancient East’.
… a tripartite stakeholder survey of Irish tourism. The research, which was undertaken in 2017, sought to explore what authenticity means to international visitors, local residents and small group tour guides in the area recently branded for marketing and touring purposes as Ireland’s …
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Investigating image processing algorithms for provision of information in rock art sites using mobile devices
… context. Instead, rock art sites offer humans as tour guides. One problem observed with human tour guides is that they often do not provide enough information about the artefact and they also do not answer questions to the satisfaction of most visitors. Also, human guides are a limited and …
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Event proposed in the form
… the City, Lars writes about the "function of the tourist behavior" where all neglect to "use the building---they photograph, read about it, and listen to tour guides...they don't look at it."1 This passive 'lack of interaction' makes me wonder as to what architecture is or where its potential …
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Knowledge and Meanings of Wilderness and Wildlife Refuges among Okefenokee Visitors on guided Intrepretive Tours
Past research has shown that interpretive tour visitors at Okefenokee National Wildlife Refuge do no better than other visitors on knowledge and value questions about federal wilderness areas and national wildlife refuges. Tours into the Okefenokee Swamp Wilderness are conducted by a National …
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Millennials as second-person witnesses of the Holocaust : a case study on the Dachau Concentration Camp Memorial Site
… Research participants included Millennials, tour guides, and the administration team at the site. Ethnographic-informed methods were used, including field observation, journaling, focus groups, semi-structured interviews, and surveys. My research findings speak to how Millennial visitors move …
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An assessment of the effects of COVID-19 on employment in Zambia’s tourism industry.
… COVID-19 pandemic on employment within Zambia's tourism industry, focusing on the years 2020 to 2022. The study used a quantitative research design in which 120 respondents from different tourism sectors participated. The findings revealed the impact of COVID 19 across the tourism sector, with …
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Investigation of Hindrances Towards Women Involvement in Tour Guiding Activities in Tanzania: A Case of Arusha Municipality
Tourism is the large and fast growing industry which serves as a source of economic gain worldwide. The millennium Development Goals clearly state to "eradicate extreme poverty and hunger" as goal number one and " to promote gender equality and empower women" as goal number three. Unfortunately …
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Challenges facing Community Based Tourism in Tanzania: A case study of Arumeru District in Arusha Region
Community Based Tourism (CBT) is increasingly being developed and promoted as a means of reducing poverty in developing countries. Some of the needs of the local community are met through offering tourism services. CBT is an initiation of local people in Arumeru District to use tourist attractions …
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A Tale of Three Cities: An Evaluation of Urban World Heritage Management in Mexico
… frequently touted in official rhetoric and tourism promotion. This dissertation seeks to shed light on the "World Heritage experience;" the designation history, what occurs after the designation, in relation to long-term planning, investment, and how do local, state, and federal government …
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Investigating the perceived effects of street art in Urban Regeneration, Gentrification and on the local community in Cape Town's Woodstock and Salt River
… interviews with informed people such as artists, tour guides, city councillors and organisation leaders. The findings revealed an overall positive sentiment towards street art by various participating groups (including long-standing community members and business owners) and a perception that it …
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Understanding and Telling Stories across Online and Real-world Cultural and Historical Artefacts
… of a set of objects. It is designed to support tourist activities across a non-portable set of cultural objects, such as statues, buildings, or landscape features. Key findings, based on both participant studies and analysis of data from Foursquare, is that while people are keen to understand …
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