Cavite State University - Open Distance eLearning

This course provides an introduction to the methods and strategies of tour guiding. This course discusses the professional, technical, social and administrative skills needed of a tour guide in order to offer quality guiding services to a range of market profiles and tailored requirements. The content covers the practical elements of tour guiding including regulations, licensing procedures, and marketing as well as the information necessary in conducting tours such as the history, architecture, local products, and personalities and major sites of tourist interest. Aside from classroom discussions, the students will be exposed to outdoor guiding, thus field trip may be included.

TOUR 199-A
The practicum workload is intended to help the students apply their formal education in a real work environment. They are required to undertake 200-hour practicum in government agencies in tourism and hospitality. Close contact with a workplace supervisor /mentor is needed as students are required to produce both a training report, with emphasis on problem-solving and supervisors’ evaluation. Attendance and participation is also required at the practicum seminar held at the start and finish of the successful practicum.

TOUR 199-B
The practicum workload is intended to help the students apply their formal education in a real work environment. They are required to undertake 400-hour practicum in travel services and tour operation industry. Close contact with a workplace supervisor /mentor is needed as students are required to produce both a training report, with emphasis on problem-solving and supervisors’ evaluation. Attendance and participation is also required at the practicum seminar held at the start and finish of the successful practicum.

Students will have a broad understanding of environmental issues and their impact upon the tourism industry, therefore subject areas such as pollution, waste management and biodiversity will be primary focus. Awareness and the understanding of the implications of tourism impacts, especially on socio – cultural and environmental aspects, are critical to properly guided sustainable tourism planning and development. The natural and cultural environments of communities and global destinations will be explored to enable students to critically interpret tourism interdependency, and the changes and development of domestic and international policy. The course critically examines tourism planning as a process and as a set of techniques for sustainable tourism development. It focuses on the physical environment of tourism planning, and the social, cultural, and political realities of planning and policy making.