TY - JOUR
T1 - The tourist guide. The origins, structure and dynamics of a role
AU - Cohen, Erik
PY - 1985
Y1 - 1985
N2 - The two lines of origin of the modern tourist guide are the pathfinder and the mentor. These are the antecedents, respectively, of the leadership and the mediatory spheres in the guide's role. Since each has an inner and an outer directed aspect, four major components of the role are distinguished: the instrumental, social, interactionary, and communicative. The dynamics of development of the role from the Original to the Professional Guide is represented as a transition of emphasis from the instrumental to the communicative component. Aside from this main line of development, two new role types have differentiated: the Animator and the Tour-leader, emphasizing, respectively, the social and the interactionary components. The Original Guide's function is to produce attractions in the marginal regions of the ecological tourist system, while that of the Professional Guide is to reproduce the attractions in the central regions of the system.
AB - The two lines of origin of the modern tourist guide are the pathfinder and the mentor. These are the antecedents, respectively, of the leadership and the mediatory spheres in the guide's role. Since each has an inner and an outer directed aspect, four major components of the role are distinguished: the instrumental, social, interactionary, and communicative. The dynamics of development of the role from the Original to the Professional Guide is represented as a transition of emphasis from the instrumental to the communicative component. Aside from this main line of development, two new role types have differentiated: the Animator and the Tour-leader, emphasizing, respectively, the social and the interactionary components. The Original Guide's function is to produce attractions in the marginal regions of the ecological tourist system, while that of the Professional Guide is to reproduce the attractions in the central regions of the system.
KW - communication
KW - leadership
KW - mediators
KW - professionalization
KW - social roles
KW - Tourist guides
KW - tourist system
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=33846193093&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.1016/0160-7383(85)90037-4
DO - 10.1016/0160-7383(85)90037-4
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AN - SCOPUS:33846193093
SN - 0160-7383
VL - 12
SP - 5
EP - 29
JO - Annals of Tourism Research
JF - Annals of Tourism Research
IS - 1
ER -