Handbook of Professional Tour Management

By Robert T. Reilly

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• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0916032183
• ISBN13: 9780916032180
• Release Date: January 1982
• Publisher: Delmar Pub
• Length: 138 Pages
• Weight: 0.90 lbs.

Customer Reviews

A fair introduction to Tour Conducting

This well written handbook (138 pp), one of the pioneers of professional literature about Tour Conducting and Tour Guiding offers an excellent and concise overview of all aspects of the profession of Tour Managers. Although probably a bit outdated (I am in possession of its first 1982 edition), it will give you a real picture of authority, background, duties, responsibilities, and routines of tour management. The text is divided into 9 chapters: 1. The Tour 2. Planning the Tour 3. The Tour Manager 4. Preparing For the Tour 5. Getting Away and Getting There 6. The Routine on Tour 7. A Tour Is a Group of Individuals 8. Special Problems and Situations 9. The Return Trip and Afterwards. I would specially recommend that all novices into the profession read Reilly's observations about qualification and qualities of a Tour Manager - they might well serve prospective tour managers for their personal self-evaluations. I also appreciate Reilly's comments on tourist types and his notes on group psychology. A great deal of professional instructions - advises and suggestions, is what makes this handbook a very practical tool for self-teaching 'on-the-road' guides. The book is now out of print. However, you'll find it at a better-equipped library near you.