Tour Guide Training based on Heritage Interpretation

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Tanyara Sánchez Jorge
Bisleivys Jiménez Valero
Yunislay Bordón Gómez

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The tourism resurging needs the development of professional skills in the tour guides to impel the reinventing of this sector. It is necessary to develop their ability to think, to act, to appreciate the history, the culture and to interpret the local heritage. The Tourism Ministry ‘Territorial Training Center from Varadero destination, imparts a training to the new applicants in the incoming agencies and it offers the elementary tools to optimize the destination image and competitiveness in the Caribbean. But the training courses modernization for this professional, implies the knowledge and analysis of the international guided services tendencies and the incoming travel agencies demands of the tourist destination. Regarding that, it proposes the design of a knowledge and skills system for the tour guide's professional formation, in order to improve their competences to interpret the local heritage.

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Sánchez Jorge, T., Jiménez Valero, B., & Bordón Gómez, Y. (2021). Tour Guide Training based on Heritage Interpretation. Explorador Digital, 5(3), 17-37. https://doi.org/10.33262/exploradordigital.v5i3.1750
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