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Professionalization of Tour Conductor through Job Analysis

  • Journal of Tourism Sciences
  • Abbr : JTS
  • 2008, 32(2), pp.255-273
  • Publisher : The Tourism Sciences Society Of Korea
  • Research Area : Social Science > Tourism

Choi Young Joon 1

1동명대학교

Accredited

ABSTRACT

Domestic outgoers abroad already recorded 10 million person visits as the end of the year of 2005, among which travel agency-aided travel is almost reaching four million person visits. It means an increasing importance of tour conductor roles in recent tourism phenomena. This paper deals with what he calls professionalization of a tour conductor, investigating into such manpower education institutions, tour conductor certificate-issuance institutions. Examining the possible introduction of work-ethic code in travel conductor system, author emphasize institutionalization of the job related education , official certificate issuance and work ethic code for the behalf of professionalization of a tour conductor.

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