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Week 6 - Local Tour Guiding

This document provides guidance on arranging tour itineraries logically. It defines logical arrangement as finding sound reasons and criteria to sequence attractions based on location and story flow. Key factors to consider include time, distance, keeping guest interest, guest profiles, weather, and costs. The document provides an example itinerary and learning tasks for students to practice arranging itineraries logically based on maps provided. Students are asked to complete a test, prepare an itinerary for a fishing port map, and do a matching activity.

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Week 6 - Local Tour Guiding

This document provides guidance on arranging tour itineraries logically. It defines logical arrangement as finding sound reasons and criteria to sequence attractions based on location and story flow. Key factors to consider include time, distance, keeping guest interest, guest profiles, weather, and costs. The document provides an example itinerary and learning tasks for students to practice arranging itineraries logically based on maps provided. Students are asked to complete a test, prepare an itinerary for a fishing port map, and do a matching activity.

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Republic of the Philippines

Department of Education
Santa Maria District
J. SANTIAGO INTEGRATED HIGH SCHOOL
Region IV- A CALABARZON
Division of Laguna
Santa Maria, Laguna

Local tour Guiding Services


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Week 6
Arranging the Itinerary
Objectives:
At the end of this lesson, students should be able to:
 Define the logical arrangement of tour itinerary
 Explain the importance of arranging the tour logically
 Arrange a tour itinerary logically.
For the learners
Now that you are holding this module, do the following:
1. Read and follow instruction carefully.
2. Take note and record points for clarification
3. Do the activities to fully understand the lesson.
4. Answer all the given tests and activities.
5. Write all your answer in the space provided in your module.

___________________________
Name of Learner

MARIEL P. LOPEZ
Subject Teacher

WEEK 6
I. Topic: Arranging the Itinerary
II. Most Essential Learning Competency
III. References: K TO 12 BASIC EDUCATION CURRICULUM JUNIOR HIGH SCHOOL
TECHNICAL LIVELIHOOD EDUCATION AND SENIOR HIGH SCHOOL- TECHNICAL
VOCATIONAL-LIVELIHOOD TRACK HOME ECONOMICS- LOCAL GUIDING SERVICES
(NC II), LOCAL GUIDING SERVICES- ELOISA A. ROMERO
IV. Content: The learner demonstrates understanding of the knowledge, skills and attitudes required to
access and research on information in tour guiding

Learning Task 1:
Direction: Complete this test before proceeding to the rest of the lesson. Arrange the following list of activities
for a museum tour that starts at 8:30 am and ends at 11:30 AM. Write the numbers 1 to 5, with 1 being the first
activity and 5 being the last.

_____1. Departure
_____2. Arrival
_____3. Shop for snacks and souvenirs
_____4. Tour the museum
_____5. Watch the introductory and orientation video about the museum

Information sheet
LOGICAL ARRANGEMENT OF A TOUR AND ITS IMPORTANCE
To arrange a tour logically means finding sound reasons and criteria to arrange the tour schedule based
on the location of attractions and the flow of the tour story. Look at the following map.

D. Ancestral House of a C. Museum


National Artist B. City Hall

E. Local Handicraft A. Church


Showroom

How can you “logically” arrange the tour itinerary for this city if you want to go to all points, from A to
E? One way to do the tour is to start at point A (the church) and then move on to B, C, D, and lastly, E. Another
way is D-C-B-A-E. However, you cannot go D-B-E-C-A. Why? This route requires the tourist to pass by the
city hall (B) and church area (A) at least twice. It would be a waste of time, energy, resources, so avoid
arrangements like this as much as possible.

Another consideration is the logical flow of a story. If you want to focus on the life of the national artist,
you can start the tour at the ancestral house. Then you can proceed with the samples of work displayed at the
museum and how he contributed to the development of the church and the local economy. If you want to focus
on the influence of religion on the lives of the local people, you can go from A to E.
Therefore, the logical arrangement of a tour itinerary follows the flow of an interesting story in an
efficient and time saving manner. Efficiency means achieving the best results using the least time and resources.
Hence, when planning a tour, the following elements must be considered:

1. Time and Distance


a. Time to move within the attraction. How long will it take for the tourists to move within and
gain appreciation of a particular tourist attraction? For example, how long does it take for an
average person to have a tour inside the Baclayon Church Museum in Bohol?
b. Time to move from one attraction to the next. How long will it take the tour group to move
from one attraction to the next? For example, how long does it take to move from Baclayon
Church Museum to the jump-off point from the Loboc River Cruise?
c. Time of start and end of the tour. What time does the tour start and finish? Is meal served
before, during, or after the tour? In arranging the Bohol countryside tour, one particular
consideration is the time of the day when the tour starts, because lunch at the Loboc River
Cruise is one of the tour’s main attractions and it only accommodates guests from 10:00 am
to 2:00 pm.
2. Flow of the story
a. Interpretation. Interpretation does not only refer to translation from one language to another.
It also refers to the provision of meaning and explanation to tourist to help them gain better
appreciation and understanding of a particular attraction. A tour guide helps tourist
understand the meaning of the things within the tourist attraction. For instance, without a
guide interpretation services, church ruins would be just a pile of stones for non-believers.
This service thus spells the difference between a guided tour and a non-guided tour.
b. Keeping the guest’s interest and attention. Tour guiding is like storytelling. There are five
parts of story: characters, setting, plot, conflict and resolution. In tour guiding, the setting
includes the general information about the country and the city, its people and culture, and
how these relate to the tourists background. The plot is the itinerary. The character can be
famous people like celebrities and heroes, but they can also be the tour guide and the guest,
depending on how the tour guide will tell the story. Conflicts are interesting addition to tour
commentaries; these can include intriguing facts or challenges that the local community
faces. But at the end, the commentary must offer a resolution to the conflicts presented, such
as how tourist can contribute to the local economy by buying locally made souvenirs. Note
that unforgettable commentaries and tourist experiences stem from the ingenious
arrangement of the tour commentary. Tour guides must therefore prepare commentaries that
provide meaning and unfold like a story as the group reaches each tourist attraction.
3. Profile of the Guest
Know your tour group. How old are they? Can they climb stairs? Are they women who love
shopping? Are there children in the group? How will their profile affect the itinerary?
4. Weather
Know the weather on the tour day. It pays to check the daily weather forecast about one
week before a tour. Weather can greatly affect the arrangement of tour. For instance, while it is
sunny all year round in Bohol, sometimes it showers in the afternoon. Hence, visiting Chocolate
hills is usually first in the itinerary, as it requires a hike to the top of an open-air hill where the
viewpoint is located. The tour guide or tour planner can either prepare plan B for inclement
weather conditions or prepare an all-weather itinerary.
5. Cost
Tourism is business. Itineraries should match the budget of the tourist and the cost of going to
particular tourist attraction. Moreover, the travel agency must make a modest profit from the tour
without making the tourist feel ripped off.

EXAMPLE OF A LOGICALLY ARRANGED ITINERARY


Upon arrival at the Tagbilaran Airport at 10:45 am, we will travel for about 30 minutes to
Loboc River, where we will have buffet lunch at local cuisine while cruising the river, serenaded
by live local music. After lunch, we will proceed to the Chocolate hills, a thousans limestone
hills that look like scoops of chocolate ice cream in summer. We will pass by the man-made
forest along the way. Then we will visit the sanctuary of tarsiers, one of the smallest primates in
the world! From there, we will proceed to historical sites, such as the blood compact shrine, and
the Baclayon Church and Museum. We will stop by a souvenir shop before we visit the Bohol
Bee farm from a sumptuous treat of healthy organic dinner and Malunggay (Moringa) Ice cream.
The tour ends at your hotel at your hotel at around 8:00 pm.
Learning Task 2: Prepare a tour itinerary based on the map (Fishing port) below.

A. Dock for fishing boats C. Fishing Port Regulatory


B. Trader’s Stalls office

G. Trucking F. Canning Facilities


E. Wet Market D. Ice Plant

ANSWER:

Learning Task 3: Matching Type


Direction: Match column A with the correct answer in Column B. Write your answer on the space
provided.

A B
______1. It includes the general information about the a. Character
country and the city, its people and culture, and how
these relate to the tourists background.
______2. They are the famous people like celebrities b. Conflicts
and heroes, but they can also be the tour guide and the
guest, depending on how the tour guide will tell the
story
____3. Itinerary c. Plot
____4. Interesting addition to tour commentaries; d. Resolution
these can include intriguing facts or challenges that the
local community faces.
____5. Answer to the conflict presented. e. Setting

Learning Task 4: Enumeration


Enumerate the five elements of a logically arranged tour itinerary.
1.
2.
3.
4.
5.
Dear Teacher,
I hereby checked and reviewed my son’s/daughter’s activity sheet. With my signature below, I
ensured that he/she had accomplished the given task by the teacher and had completed answering all the
activities for this week.

_____________________________________
Parent’s Name and Signature

“Self-belief and hard work will always earn your success.”


Virat Kohli

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