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A tour guide in the United Kingdom. A tour guide (U.S.) or a tourist guide (European) is a person who provides assistance, and information on cultural, historical and contemporary heritage to people on organized sightseeing and individual clients at educational establishments, religious and historical sites such as; museums, and at various venues of tourist attraction resorts. [1]
After being renamed several times, it became the Guild of Registered Tourist Guides and more recently the British Guild of Tourist Guides. [1] In 2002, the Institute of Tourist Guiding was established to accredit tourist guide training programmes, assess qualifications and language proficiency, accredit trainers, and award badges. [2] [3]
They address the viewer directly, acting as tourists-turned-tour guides, but are also filmed interacting with locals and discovering interesting locations in (mostly) unrehearsed sequences. Globe Trekker also sometimes includes brief interviews with backpackers who share tips on independent travel in that particular country or city.
It has run an annual taxi tour to Disneyland Paris for children with life-threatening illnesses each year since 1994. Its education programme, The Cab Guide Course, teaches taxi drivers about the history of London in order to proceed to conduct London tours, and it seeks to promote public awareness about the high standards of the hackney ...
Portrait of publisher John Murray III, 19th century. Murray's Handbooks for Travellers were travel guide books published in London by John Murray beginning in 1836. [1] The series covered tourist destinations in Europe and parts of Asia and northern Africa.
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The Professional Guide: Dynamics of Tour Guiding. New York: Van Nostrand Reinhold, 1993. Wynn, Jonathan R. The Tour Guide: Walking and Talking New York. Chicago: The University of Chicago Press, 2011. Wynn, Jonathan R. "City Tour Guides: Urban Alchemists at Work." City & Community 9, no. 2 (June 2010).
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