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

By M. Christie, Peter Mason. 2003

152 citations recorded by the source corpus.

Subfields: Museology, Social Psychology, Tourism, Leisure and Hospitality Management

View Paper: https://www.semanticscholar.org/paper/44021b44266b8a649cfe02ea755dd3e152916056

How researchers see this paper

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In Museology

1. Alexandra Coghlan
2. Betty Weiler

In Social Psychology

1. Michel Harms
2. M. Jacobs
3. Junghoon Lee
4. Alexandra Coghlan
5. Jinsoo Hwang
6. Betty Weiler

In Tourism, Leisure and Hospitality Management

1. Alexandra Coghlan
2. Jinsoo Hwang
3. Betty Weiler

Citations in the corpus

• Influence of interpretation on conservation intentions of whale tourists (2014, background): “The concept of interpretation refers to a specific form of environmental education, namely on-site education through communication while people engage in a nature-based activity (Christie & Mason, 2003; Moscardo, Woods, & Saltzer, 2004).”
• Examining transformative processes in volunteer tourism (2018, background): “…cited above have emphasized that transformation in tourists is precipitated by changes in attitudes, values, consciousness, and a view of the self (e.g. Christie & Mason, 2003; Wearing, 2002; Zahra & McIntosh, 2007), and that this may or may not be accompanied by observable behaviour change.”
• Enhancing the visitor experience: reconceptualising the tour guide’s communicative role (2014, background): “As noted by Christie and Mason (2003) over a decade ago, the role that training can and does play in helping guides learn to be effective and reflective”
• Relationships among Senior Tourists’ Perceptions of Tour Guides’ Professional Competencies, Rapport, Satisfaction with the Guide Service, Tour Satisfaction, and Word of Mouth (2018, background): “Therefore, travel agencies should make a lot of effort to improve tour guide services (Christie and Mason 2003; Weiler and Ham 2002).”