Training Tour Research Articles

Logistics Management in Tourism: A Literature Survey on Role of Emergency Logistics Preparedness in Adventure Tourism in the United Republic of Tanzania

This paper aims to investigate the significance of emergency logistics preparedness in adventure tourism through a literature review. The methodology used in this study is based on reviewing published papers on logistics planning, preparedness, and emergency logistics in adventure tourism. The information gathered was analyzed to determine the contribution of emergency logistics to adventure tourism. The study is grounded in the resource-based view (RBV) theory, which provides a managerial framework for identifying the strategic resources that firms can leverage to achieve sustainable competitive advantage. The study finds that emergency logistics play a crucial role in structuring the best framework for rescue and providing relief for accidents that may occur during adventure tourism activities. The study emphasizes that emergency logistics preparedness is critical in adventure tourism since accidents are inevitable and a quick response creates confidence among tourists and encourages them to revisit. Therefore, the study concludes that it is essential for organizations in the tourism industry, both public and private, to have emergency plans that consider the likelihood of disasters and crises. Such plans should outline the necessary actions to be taken and how to rescue the situation and recover from it. Therefore, organizations in the tourism industry need to prioritize emergency logistics preparedness, including training tour guides on logistical issues for disaster operations, having plans in place relating to routes of rescue, communication of risk, and utilizing human resources in connection with logistical activities and functions aimed at emergency and relief operations.

Strategi Pengembangan Daya Tarik Wisata Science Center sebagai Wisata Edukasi di Kabupaten Bandung

The purpose of this research is to determine the tourism attraction and development strategy in the science center of Bandung Regency. This research was conducted using a qualitative descriptive approach and SWOT analysis. Data collection was carried out through observation, interviews, and documentation. The results of the study showed that the tourism attractions in the science center were quite diverse, ranging from photo spots to interactive exhibits. However, additional tourism attractions need to be added to attract more tourists. Regarding the development strategy of tourism attractions in the science center, it is necessary to observe the environment (internal and external factors) and develop strategies through the SWOT matrix to produce alternative strategies translated into short-term goals, such as: Intensive promotion, Collaborating with other institutions, Promoting the existing educational and cultural attractions, Adding new attractions, Preparing or training tour guides who understand the exhibits, Adding several new spots of attraction, Considering natural factors for tourists' safety, Providing professional guides, medium-term goals such as providing various souvenirs, and long-term goals.

PEMBERDAYAAN PEMBERDAYAAN MASYARAKAT MELALUI PROGRAM KULIAH KERJA NYATA DI DESA LEWOTOBI KECAMATAN ILE BURA MELALUI PROGRAM KULIAH KERJA NYATA DI DESA LEWOTOBI KECAMATAN ILE BURA

Lewotobi village has great potential to improve the economy of its people. The potential consists of two, namely natural resources and human resources. Lack of knowledge and lack of motivation cause the existing potential has not been utilized optimally. Some of the problems found in the field include The absence of an internet network in the school environment and students' low awareness about the importance of education as seen from the level of participation and active participation in lessons at school. In addition, there are problems encountered in the community, such as The absence of the next generation of cultural heritage, especially from young people to become tour guides on Wato Lota beach, low awareness, and participation from residents, especially young people to take part in community service activities in the environment, there is no trench for drainage of rainwater so that most of the residents' houses are submerged in water during the rainy season. The empowerment model that is carried out for the community is a form of a participatory approach. This service activity involves the community, especially young people, to advance their village. Parents and village government assisted by facilitating capacity-building activities such as training tour guides.

Compilation and prioritizing human-wildlife conflict management strategies using the WASPAS method in Iran

Wildlife habitats provide several essential services, and humans’ needs for development cause a growing conflict with wildlife. Formulating and prioritizing strategies improve conflict management and save time and costs. We used the experts’ opinions to formulate strategies. 45 management strategies were extracted that formed a decision matrix. These strategies were evaluated by 40 experts using the five-point Likert range in five criteria, i.e., productivity or efficiency, adaptability, running costs, social acceptability, and sustainability. Strategies were prioritized by forming a decision matrix and inserting it into WASPAS software. The selected strategies are “training environmentalists, waste management, empowering the local economy, modifying hunting laws, land use planning before project executions, training local communities, social-based management, training tour guides and tourists, modifying tourism-related laws, banning alien species, and road management.” Conflict is a complex phenomenon, and managing it requires multiple strategies. Therefore, combining several strategies can increase the chances of successful conflict management.

ROLE OF FOREST DIVERSIFICATION IN PROMOTING TOURISM.A CRITICAL LITERATURE REVIEW

Purpose: Global Tourism destinations provide different products which satisfy tourists with different interests, needs and wants. The general objective of the study was to establish the role of forest diversification in promoting tourism
 Methodology: The paper used a desk study review methodology where relevant empirical literature was reviewed to identify main themes and to extract knowledge gaps.
 Findings: The study concludes that forest tourism products were positively and significantly influenced the tourism sustainability (r=0.258, p=0.001). This meant that a unitary increase in the forest tourism products leads to an increase in tourism sustainability by 0.258 units.
 Majority of the tourists’ and destination operators agreed that cultural tourism experienced influenced tourism sustainability. Some of the cultural tourism practices experienced were visiting historical sites, tasting local food and drinks, listening to local music, witnessing local dancing, viewing local artifacts, visiting sacred sites, witnessing local basket making, sighting traditional homes, attending local cultural shows/events and local religious events and home staying in rural villages
 Recommendations: The study recommends that forest tourism stakeholders should devise plans and ways of countering the challenges that face the forest tourism diversification These challenges included; inadequate relevant information about the forest tourism product; inadequate facilities in the forests such as rest centers, walking trails; poor quality services; unethical guiding practices such as request for tips, use of vulgar language; hostile residents; inadequate signage; unfavorable prices of forest activities; insecurity; unhealthy environment; poor communication facilities and inadequacy in tourism product diversity. These can be mitigated by building sustainable transport and communication infrastructure, encouraging community participation of the tourist resources, training tour guides, encouraging community visits to the sites and creating awareness on the importance to preserve tourist sites. The study suggested that cultural tourism practices in the indigenous forests in counties should be fully profiled and funds for its full establishment be allocated

Turist Rehberi Adaylarının Uygulama Gezilerinden Beklentilerinin ve Memnuniyet Düzeylerinin Araştırılması

Amaç ve Önem: Bu çalışmanın amacı, turist rehberi adaylarının uygulama gezilerinden beklentilerini ve memnuniyet düzeylerini araştırmaktır. Bu amaçla öncelikle turist rehberliği ile ilgili literatür taraması yapılmıştır. Daha sonra turist rehberi olmak için gerekli şartlar irdelenmiştir. Bu şartlardan biri olan uygulama gezileri çalışmanın temelini oluşturmaktadır.Yöntem: Turist rehberi adaylarının uygulama gezilerinden beklentilerinin ve memnuniyet düzeylerinin belirlenmesi amacıyla Ocak-Şubat 2019 aylarında gerçekleştirilen uygulama gezilerine katılan önlisans, lisans ve yüksek lisans düzeyinde öğrenim gören turist rehberliği öğrencilerine anket uygulanmıştır.Bulgular: Katılımcıların yaşadıkları ülkeyi gezme arzusunda olsalar dahi gezi süresinin uzunluğunun motivasyon kaybına yol açtığı sonucuna ulaşılmıştır. Araştırmadan elde edilen bulgular, bu gezilere katılanların beklentilerinin yüksek ancak memnuniyet düzeylerinin düşük olduğunu, dolayısıyla istenilen düzeyde iyi hizmet alınamadığını ortaya koymuştur. Bu sebeple geziden beklenen verimin alınamadığı ve amacına ulaşamadığı tespit edilmiştir.Özgünlük/Bilimsel Katkı: Çalışmada, Ocak 2019-Şubat 2019 tarihleri arasında gerçekleştirilen uygulama gezisine katılan önlisans, lisans ve yüksek lisans düzeyinde öğrenim gören turist rehberliği öğrencilerinin uygulama gezilerinden beklenti ve memnuniyet düzeyleri incelenmiştir. Literatürde konuyla ilgili çok az çalışmaya rastlanmıştır. Bu doğrultuda, bu çalışmanın ilgili literatüre katkı sağlayacağı düşünülmektedir.Çalışmanın Sınırlılıkları: Araştırma Ocak-Şubat 2019 tarihlerinde gerçekleştirilen uygulama gezisine katılan önlisans, lisans ve yüksek lisans düzeyinde öğrenim gören turist rehberliği öğrencilerinin sorulara verdiği cevaplarla sınırlıdır.

Tips for Training Tour Guides

Nonprofit Communications ReportVolume 18, Issue 6 p. 3-3 Articles Tips for Training Tour Guides First published: 07 May 2020 https://doi.org/10.1002/npcr.31480Read the full textAboutPDF ToolsRequest permissionExport citationAdd to favoritesTrack citation ShareShare Give accessShare full text accessShare full-text accessPlease review our Terms and Conditions of Use and check box below to share full-text version of article.I have read and accept the Wiley Online Library Terms and Conditions of UseShareable LinkUse the link below to share a full-text version of this article with your friends and colleagues. Learn more.Copy URL Share a linkShare onFacebookTwitterLinkedInRedditWechat No abstract is available for this article. Volume18, Issue6June 2020Pages 3-3 RelatedInformation

Tour leaders’ job crafting: Scale development

Job crafting is an emerging construct that has been applied in various disciplines but remains largely unexplored in the tourism industry. The purpose of this study was to develop a scale for measuring tour leaders' job crafting. First, focus group interviews and content analysis were conducted to generate the initial items. Second, two surveys involving respective sample sizes of 268 and 253 were conducted. Through a rigorous development process, the 30-item four-dimensional tour leaders' job crafting scale was proven to have reliability and validity. This study extends current knowledge of the field of job crafting in the tourism industry and provides a foundation for further investigation of tour leaders’ job crafting and the relationships between the related constructs. The scale provides a useful tool for tour leaders to understand their own job crafting level. Furthermore, the results can serve as a reference for managers in recruiting and training tour leaders.

Value drivers and adventure tourism

PurposeThe purpose of this paper is to investigate the drivers of customer value, and their respective relationships with customer satisfaction and behavioral intentions, between two culturally distinct groups of adventure tourists.Design/methodology/approachThe study adopted a descriptive design and compared data from 301 Japanese and Western adventure tourists who experienced the same adventure tour. The respondents were split into two groups, and a path modeling approach was used to examine similarities and differences.FindingsThe results indicated that Japanese tourists attached more importance to emotional value and novelty value. Western tourists, however, attached relatively more importance to the utilitarian dimension of price value for money.Practical implicationsThe main implication of this study is that tourism operators should account for differences in value perceptions between Japanese and Western tourists when planning tour operations, training tour guides, and managing tour itineraries. Operators should also consider customizing their tour products to fit the specific needs of these different cultural groups. This reinforces the adaptation argument when marketing tourism to international consumers.Originality/valueThis study highlights that different value drivers affect the satisfaction and behavioral intentions of Japanese tourists, relative to Western tourists. The need for adaptation of tourism products toward certain international tourists is thus necessary. The research also reinforces the importance of conceptualizing and measuring customer value as a multidimensional construct in an international adventure tourism context.

Food heritage and promoting herbal medicine-based niche tourism in Isfahan, Iran

ABSTRACTThe dynamic and competitive nature of tourism means that surviving commercially may require the emergence of niche tourism. This paper presents a niche tourism sector that emphasizes medicinal plants: herbal medicine-based tourism. This research has two major purposes: to investigate innovation and strategies for promoting herbal-medicine-based tourism and to demonstrate strategies for integrating tourism and medicinal plants for the purpose of education and knowledge transfer. This study was conducted in Isfahan, Iran. The results show that strategies (such as outdoor activities and tourist workshops in herbal medicine parks/farms or in the plants’ natural habitats; training tour guides who are familiar with botany and medicinal plants; and the integration of traditional medicine and tourism to emphasize the therapeutic properties of medical plants) can play a central role in tourism based upon learning about and consuming traditional medicinal herbs. The innovative strategies for promoting this specialized form of tourism are classified into five main categories.

Geoconservation and geotourism in Arxan-Chaihe Volcano Area, Inner Mongolia, China

In East Inner-Mongolia, the Arxan-Chaihe Volcano Area (ACVA) constitutes an important component part of the Cenozoic volcanic eruption area in Northeast China, with great scientific and aesthetic value. The area has received much attention since the 1980s. The Arxan National Geopark was established in 2004 and the Zalantun Autonomous Geopark in 2010, and volcanic geoconservation and geotourism developed to a certain degree, along with some common problems in geopark development. This paper analyzes the characteristics, geoconservation, and geotourism of volcanic geoheritage in the area. The main problems identified are the inefficient conservation management, uncoordinated development, and the limited interpretation system. We provide some suggestions on the problems in order to promote the local development, such as strengthening legislation, training tour guides as volcanologists with a background in geology who can interpret volcano geoheritage correctly, building a web site, and combining the two geoparks to apply for designation as a global geopark

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What are we training tour guides for?: India

Regional Level Guide Training Programme (RLGTP) is an ambitious programme of Government of India aimed at creating professional guides who can accompany tourist over a region. Entire country has been divided in to 5 regions. An important issue to address is the kind of tour guides these training programmes should produce. This would depend upon the content and approach to training which in turn depends on the vision for roles guides should play in tourism value chain. This paper is a case study based evaluation of the content of the RLGTP vis-à-vis the six-dimensional model proposed by Chowdhary and Prakash (2008). Authors calculate the weight age given to different inputs and try to uncover the underlying assumptions about the role of a tour guide. Paper also makes recommendations related to design of content for the guide training programme.

Transformative Tour Guiding: Training Tour Guides to be Critically Reflective Practitioners

Interpretation is an indispensable tool for achieving the goals of ecotourism (Weiler & Ham, 2001). Tour guiding is an educational activity that is part of the process of interpretation (Knudson et al., 1995; Pond, 1993). In the past, tour guides were usually untrained, but guide training is now common in most developed countries (McArthur, 1996). Tour guide training is an adult education activity, but much training is competency-based with an emphasis on knowledge transmission and skill acquisition. This article suggests that good training should lead to change, not only in terms of knowledge and skills, but also in attitudes and behaviour. It argues that good guide training should alter how guides think and act, and suggests that if trainee guides learn how to critique their own knowledge, attitudes and behaviour, they will be able to offer their clients (tourists) something more than a superficial introduction to a new environment, country or culture. Current guide-training practices in selected countries are reviewed and discussed. A case study of tour guide training in Kakadu National Park, Australia is presented and used as the basis for a proposed model of training, termed 'transformative tour guiding', which could improve the quality of ecotour guiding, as well as help sustain tourism sites.

Public and private cooperation in the National Park Service

A major function of the US National Park Service—protecting the parks—requires information that will influence visitor patterns to be disseminated to the public. The private sector is helping in this in many ways. Pooling public and private expertise is also helping in eg collecting more useful statistics, in training tour escorts, and in encouraging travel writers to familiarize themselves with the parks and their needs.