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Book		Enriching the Experience: An Interpretive Approach to Tour Guiding John Pastorelli This is a book that any tour guides or directors should carefully read and then again re-read.   John Pastorelli offers an accessible and comprehensible book aimed at providing guides and tour directors with all the skills to create travel experiences for their customers. The book is brimming with various concepts, techniques, case studies and learning tools. Even the most experienced guides will be surprised when reading the text. Simply, many of us who have been working in this field for more than 20-25 years (i.e. having a really extensive experience) can now see that our more or less standard interpretation of sights and usual communication with customers need desperately to be improved. The book explains how this can be done in the most effective way. Knowing how to enrich the travel experience of our customers, we’ll enrich our own professional experience and satisfaction as well. Thank to this excellent book, the hidden secrets of what we usually call Art of Guiding are now explained, lightened and exposed to all professional and volunteer guides Branko, Tour Guide / Tour Director, Serbia & Montenegro
Book		The Professional Guide : Dynamics of Tour Guiding by Kathleen Lingle Pond The book gives an excellently written text, explaining all aspects of tour guide practice, and more. It is well structured, and offers an inside glimpse into the profession. The best (and for any guide most useful) part of the text is about presentation and speaking skills of professional tour guides - which have recently been defined as the Art of guiding.  If you have any interest in tour guiding wherever you are, get this book as soon as possible. Branko, Tour Guide / Tour Director, Serbia & Montenegro
Book		Tour Director Training Guide  by Cherie Anderson The Tour Director Training Guide is a textbook based on the successful online training course “Get Paid to Travel.” The textbook includes everything needed to become a professional tour director and to be successful, including tour procedures, briefings, documents, emergencies, pre-tour planning, challenges, and getting hired.  Cherie Anderson, Author, Tour Director, Lake Forest, USA

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Shop A & E If you are looking for introductory, biographical or documentary type video's that may be related to your tour or touring subject, they have a great selection. Sherry Guy, Tour Director, St.Petersburg,FL