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| Tour guide | |
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 A tour guide at the National Museum of the American Indian in the United States |
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| Names | Tour guide, tourist guide |
| Activity sectors | Tourism |
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| Related jobs | Tour manager, travel agent |
A tour guide or tourist guide is a person who leads groups of tourists around a town, museum, or other tourist attraction. The guide provides commentary on the features and history of the location. The tours can be from as little as 10-15 minutes to extended periods over many days. Such a person normally possesses a qualification usually issued and/or recognised by the appropriate authority
A guide who works at a particular location, such as a museum, may be called a docent and may provide entertaining, organized and themed heritage interpretation.
Tour managers lead groups as part of a package holiday. They act as interpreters for the group and as representatives of the holiday company. Importance is placed on the guides knowledge of language, travel documentation requirements and cultural differences.
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Legal foundation
In places such as southern Europe, being a tour guide is considered prestigious. Austria, France, Greece, Italy, Portugal, Spain, Turkey and Cyprus have national laws concerning the tour guide profession. Only officially certified tour guides, educated along national guidelines, may commercially guide tourists. Violations of this principle will be brought before national courts and penalized with fines.1
Since 2007 there has been much controversy about such national restrictions. At the core of the conflict is the EU Directive for Professional Qualifications, which aims to eradicate obstacles for free moving service providers and clarify professional standards.2 Austria and Italy among others refuse to adapt the directive and hold on to their national laws, based on the protection of local tour guides and national touristic quality guidelines.
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