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Fish, Jesse O. "Robotic Tour Guide Platform." Case Western Reserve University School of Graduate Studies / OhioLINK, 2013. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=case1342039873.
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Carrillo, Brendali, Carla Barbieri, Whitney Knollenberg, and Michael B. Edwards. "The stress from my tour leading job: Differences between genders." Elsevier Ltd, 2020. http://hdl.handle.net/10757/656727.
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El texto completo de este trabajo no está disponible en el Repositorio Académico UPC por restricciones de la casa editorial donde ha sido publicado.This study compared job stressors between female and male Tour Leaders (TLs) operating in South America, mainly Peru and Bolivia. In 2017, 82 TLs were surveyed about their level of stress on 30 items representing four sources of job stress: job roles, nature of the job, tourists’ attitudes and behaviors, and external factors. Statistical tests determined that female TLs perceive higher levels of stress from sexual harassment, natural disasters, facilitating the tourists-locals interaction, having limited free time during trips and constant packing/unpacking. Male TLs reported higher levels of stress when tourists supersede their authority. These results indicate the need to amend policy and managerial guidelines to increase gender equity in the tour leading profession.
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Jacobson, Jennifer Jean. "Assessment of tour guide training at the Cave of the Mounds." Menomonie, WI : University of Wisconsin--Stout, 2005. http://www.uwstout.edu/lib/thesis/2005/2005jacobsonj.pdf.
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Tolliver, Shane H. "A tour guide of the book of Daniel for Bible teachers." Theological Research Exchange Network (TREN), 1986. http://www.tren.com.
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Mahdavi, Zafarghandi Mahdi. "Iranian Female Tour Guides’ Perceptions of Working in the Tourism Industry." Thesis, Umeå universitet, Kulturgeografi, 2016. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:umu:diva-125133.
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It is expected that tourism industry is one of the fields that can boost female employment and therefore, can help redress the balance and empower women in Iran. Equal opportunities in employment assist them for empowerment. Being a tour guide is one of these opportunities, although most jobs are created elsewhere, e.g. hotels and restaurants. But for this thesis, tour guides are important from two aspects: first, it is a challenging condition that you find out what you are capable of and second; it is not an extension of traditional domestic roles, and it is a new role for women in a male-dominated job market.This study aims to investigate how female tour guides perceive their roles in the tourism industry and the elements of these perceptions among their family, colleagues, and tourists who could serve empowering or disempowering.
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Kailasam, Umadevi. "High level VHDL modeling of a low-power ASIC for a tour guide." [Tampa, Fla.] : University of South Florida, 2004. http://purl.fcla.edu/fcla/etd/SFE0000262.
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Girardot, Kendra Sue. "Teaching and learning in the art museum galleries: tour guide strategies and approaches." The Ohio State University, 2004. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu1406885494.
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Sleeper, Buck (Thomas Buck). "Last resorts : a tour guide to territorial protection for the Republic of the Maldives." Thesis, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2011. http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/63056.
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Thesis (M. Arch.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Architecture, 2011.Cataloged from PDF version of thesis.
Includes bibliographical references (p. 180-181).
A two meter rise in sea levels projected by the end of this century threatens the sovereignty of the Maldivian nation state. While flight from the Maldives to establish a new homeland elsewhere has been proposed, the culture and economy of this country is inextricably entrenched in its geophysical environment. Although the Maldives is known for super luxury resorts, the nation's government is poorly positioned to defend a population of 400,000 people spread across 1200 islands. This thesis proposes a strategy by which the international resort operator, an autonomous and independently funded entity, can be mobilized as an agent of coastal defense. Also investigated are issues of artificial reef ecology, defensive coastal infrastructures, and prefabricated composite construction and modularity.
by Buck Sleeper.
M.Arch.
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Reid, Joëlle. "La cité inachevée des Incas, interprétation du patrimoine dans le tour guide au Machu Picchu." Thesis, National Library of Canada = Bibliothèque nationale du Canada, 2000. http://www.collectionscanada.ca/obj/s4/f2/dsk1/tape2/PQDD_0019/MQ55605.pdf.
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Bassam, Abdulhamid Ansam, and Gill Namra Jamshaid. "A proof-of-concept of the audio tour guide application, SoundTracker, aimed at friends and family." Thesis, Malmö universitet, Fakulteten för teknik och samhälle (TS), 2018. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:mau:diva-20890.
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Kontextmedvetenhet kan användas i turistguide applikationer för att bidra användare med information och tjänster. Majoriteten av turistguide applikationer utvecklas vanligtvis för utbildnings eller historiska ändamål. Den här studien presenterar en konceptvalidering av den opublicerade ljuvandrings applikationen "SoundTracker", i syfte att förbättra den. Den nya "SoundTracker" prototypen inriktar sig inte på utbildnings eller historiska ändamål, utan den är inriktad på inspelning, uppspelning, och delning av personliga ljudvandringar med vänner och familj. Konceptvalideringen är begränsad av de definierade forskningsfrågorna i den här uppsatsen. Det handlar i korta drag om en förbättring av noggranheten på de inlästa GPS koordinaterna från en användares position, för att förse användaren med en trevlig användarupplevelse. Dessutom är grafiska användargränssnittet av den originala prototypen förbättrat, och testat genom webb enkäter. Vad gäller delnings funktionaliteten, en test applikation är skapad för att hitta essentiella aspekter som behöver tas hänsyn till i den nya "SoundTracker" prototypen när en användare vill dela ett ljudspår med vänner och familj. Test applikationen testas baserat på samlade svar genom en semi strukturerad interview på människor i åldersgruppen 20-30 år.De erhållna resultaten indikerar på att genom användning av Kalman filter, förbättras noggrannheten på användarens position, vilket resulterar i en ljudvandring med mindre avvikelser jämfört med en GPS-sensor. Vad gäller det förbättrade grafiska användargränssnittet, det var enklare för användarna att förstå den förbättrade prototypen såväl som navigera igenom den, än fallet med den originala prototypen. Användarna finner det även intressant när en delningsfunktion implementeras med designen som diskuteras i det här arbetet.Context-awareness can be used in tour guide applications in order to provide users with information and services. The majority of tour guide applications are usually developed for educational or historical review purposes. This paper presents a proof-of-concept of the unpublished audio tour guide application, “SoundTracker”, with the aim of improving it. The new “SoundTracker” prototype does not aim for educational or historical review purposes, instead it is aimed for recording, listening and sharing personal audio tour guides with friends and family. The proof-of-concept is limited by the defined research questions found in this paper. In summary, the accuracy of the read-in GPS coordinates of a user’s position is enhanced with Kalman filter, to give an enjoyable user experience. Additionally, the graphical user interface of the original prototype is improved and tested through web-surveys. As for the sharing functionality, a test application is created in order to find what necessary aspects need to be considered in the new "SoundTracker" prototype when a user wants to share a sound-walk with friends and family. The test application is tested based on responses obtained through a semi-structured interview from people in the age of 20-30 years.The obtained results indicate that, with use of Kalman filter, the location accuracy of the user is enhanced, which results in a sound-walk with less deviations compared to location accuracy of only GPS-sensor. Regarding the improved graphical user interface, users found the new "SoundTracker" prototype easier to understand, as well as to navigate through it, than the case in the original prototype. Users also find it interesting when a sharing function is implemented with the design that is discussed in this work.
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Terrell, Robert Vern Liu Tsai Lu. "TOURBOT a research and product design study applying human robot interaction and universal design principles to the development of a tour guide robot /." Auburn, Ala, 2009. http://hdl.handle.net/10415/1732.
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Liu, Fang. "Forbidden City: An Immersive Virtual Reality World Using the HTC VIVE to explore the real imperial palace of China." Thesis, Virginia Tech, 2017. http://hdl.handle.net/10919/77943.
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Forbidden City is a 3D virtual tour of an ancient Chinese architectural masterpiece, first of the world's top five palaces -The Imperial Palace in Beijing, China. This travel guide is designed to give you useful information that will greatly enhance your experience, and it will bring you into an immersive virtual world by using the device of the HTC VIVE rather than static texts and images.
This 3D guide integrates cultural and historical information, which is practical and informative. You can get a comprehensive understanding of the palace history, architectural characteristics and Chinese culture through interaction within the immersive experience.
Forbidden City travel guide 3D virtual tour provides all the necessary functions and information for planning a visit to the Forbidden Cty palace in the capital of Beijing, China. With the tour guide character "Doctor Guider" within this experience/game, your tour to this Forbidden City will be purposeful and fun.Master of Fine Arts
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Xu, Ming. "Les interactions entre le tourisme et le développement durable à la lumière de l’analyse des guides touristiques. : Etude de cas en Chine." Thesis, Corte, 2015. http://www.theses.fr/2015CORT0004/document.
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Le tourisme est un secteur économique en plein développement et tend à intégrer, dans ses stratégies, la durabilité des sites. Le développement durable, visant l’amélioration de la qualité de vie de tous sans provoquer de résultats écologiques et socioculturels indésirables, pénètre peu à peu les sites touristiques. Or, les visites touristiques font intervenir un acteur clé, le guide touristique. Personne assurant le contact entre l’offre et la demande, il occupe une fonction essentielle pour assurer l’avancée du tourisme dans une direction durable. Face à l’absence de recherche en ce domaine, nous avons choisi d’axer la nôtre sur cette problématique, à travers une étude de cas en Chine. Trois objectifs de recherche ont alors été identifiés : comprendre le développement durable et les relations que celui-ci noue avec le tourisme ; explorer les rôles et les responsabilités des guides touristiques et leurs implications dans la promotion de la durabilité ; examiner les raisons pour lesquelles les guides touristiques exercent concrètement leurs fonctions en vue de soutenir le développement du tourisme durable. Suite à la revue de littérature et à l’application de la triangulation des méthodes dans cette thèse - les entretiens, l’observation participante et l’enquête par questionnaire -, nous recommandons d’orienter les pratiques de l’industrie touristique vers un développement sain et durable, en les hiérarchisant : 1) Perfectionner la certification, améliorer la formation, accroître le contrôle des guides touristiques ; 2) Promouvoir les fonctions de la Guilde des guides touristiques ; 3) Améliorer les conditions de travail des guides et renforcer l’éducation au développement durable auprès de tous les acteurs de cette industrieTourism is a booming economic sector that tends to incorporate the sustainable sites into its strategies. Sustainable development, which in the strategy to improve the quality of life for all without causing adverse environmental and socio-cultural outcome, gradually come into sight. However, the tour guide plays a key role in the tourism industry. As a person who assures the contact between supply and demand, it has an essential function for the advancement of tourism in a sustainable direction. Given the absence of research in this area, we chose to focus ours on this issue based on a case study in China. Three research objectives were then identified: Understanding Sustainable Development and the relationships with tourism; exploring the roles and responsibilities of tour guides and their involvement in promoting sustainability; examining why the tour guides actually exercise their functions in order to support the development of sustainable tourism. After the literature review and application of triangulation methods in this thesis - interviews, participant observation and questionnaire survey -, we recommend to orient the practices in the tourism industry towards a healthy and sustainable development in a hierarchical structure: (1) Ameliorate the certification, optimize the training program, strengthen the control of tourist guides; (2) Promote the functions of the Guild of tour guides; (3) Improve the working conditions of guides and reinforce the education for sustainable development in this industry
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Tomášková, Tereza. "Založení portálu pro vybrané služby cestovního ruchu." Master's thesis, Vysoká škola ekonomická v Praze, 2014. http://www.nusl.cz/ntk/nusl-205748.
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The Diploma thesis is focused on creating a business plan for establishment of a portal for conducting tour guide services. The aim is to take advantage of the ever-growing trend in providing online tourism services. The first two chapters are devoted to theoretical knowledge and premises. First, we provide the general definition of tourism. The general characterization of tourism services follows together with a more detail account of tour guide work as such. The first part also includes information concerning internet portals and tourism trends for 2016. The second chapter deals with the business plan and its structure. The third part contains the actual business plan with all its essentials such as a description of the product and its functionality, potential markets, a competition analysis, a marketing strategy, an implementation plan and a financial plan.
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Lu, Wei-Che, and 呂偉哲. "The Study of Service Quality and Service Process of the Tour Guide-Mandarin Tour Guide as An Example." Thesis, 2017. http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/cp9v7t.
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碩士健行科技大學
國際企業經營系碩士在職專班
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When the visitors accompying by tour leaders visiting to Taiwan, the tour guides play important roles who cause easily different qualities or unqualified service during the service provided. In order to enhance the service quality of tour guides, the study investigate complete detailed content of service from well qualified tour guides by in-depth interview, and divide into four sections as below: “Pre-Guiding”, “During Guiding”, “Handling Change in Tour Plan” and “Pro-Guiding”. Each section describes detailed. Gathering the four sections, which building up a complete procedure of tour guiding service, it can be the Standard Operation Procedure (SOP) of a tour guiding service for the tour guides. The section “Pre-Guiding” is divide into three parts: “receiving the tour plan”, “the communication among OP, tour leader and the shuttle driver” and “payment and materials in advance”. The section “During Guiding” can be separated as the “before group arrival”, “after group arrival” and “arrangement for 6 traveling elements”. The “Pro-Guiding” is combined by “service before sending off” and “follow-up and writing off”. There are serval working standards for Service Industry. The basic and important one is the Standard Operation Procedure (SOP), which are necessary serial steps and actions for the tour guides to achieve the service target. In order to standardize the service and guiding quality provided by tour guides, which make the visitors will impress well and unforgettably, setting up a SOP for the management of tour guiding service must be done. The purpose for this study is to deliver a reference to fresh tour guides, tour guiding associations, tour guiding train centers, and travel agents to develop qualified tour guides.
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CHUANG, CHUN-CHIN, and 莊俊卿. "Professional Capability Development for Chinese Tour Guide." Thesis, 2017. http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/31945763904366885475.
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Hsieh, Jung-chia, and 謝榕佳. "The Study of Tour-Guide Classification System." Thesis, 2013. http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/76649183819613802096.
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碩士世新大學
觀光學研究所(含碩專班)
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Among the world's green industries, the tourism industry is the one of the most rapidly developed and the most profitable. After cross-strait flights were allowed between Taiwan and China, the tourist numbers from the mainland rapidly increased, boosting Taiwan's economy and also boosting related local businesses. Over the past few years, more and more people get licensed to become tour guides. However, the tour prices has been going down each year. The purpose of this study is to discuss: 1. The current status of the tourism industry and tour guide grading system 2 .The tourist guides’ opinions toward the grading system 3 .The grading methods and categorization 4 .The post-grading, the job responsibilities This study uses quantitative research using data from a survey conducted among the tour guides in Taiwan. It not only looks for the guide’s background, but also their views of the current Taiwan tourism industry conditions. It also covers the methods and types of the guide, and the reasons on their agreement or disagreement of the grading system. The objective of the study is to improve the quality of the Taiwanese guides as well as enhancing the tourists’ travel experience. 420 questionnaires were sent out to Taiwanese tour guides and the response rate was 73.8% The overall statistical analysis was conducted to study the views of the tour guides toward the current conditions of the industry, the job market in Taiwan tourism, comparison of the grading system and level of support for the grading system. The results of the analysis: the guide grading system is divided into three types, junior, senior and the professional guide. The statics shows significant differences among the guides in gender, education, yearly average workload, and views toward the tourism industry. The top 5 factors that affect the Taiwanese tour guide's supports of the grading system are "maintaining enthusiasm over the long term", “different length of work experiences brings in different degrees of knowledge, abilities and skills”,” the longer the working years, the more different expertise the tour guides should have”, “the training and workshop hosted by the tourism bureau is unable to meet the professional needs”, and ”if there is a grading system, the work should be different for the guide in different grades” in the views toward the current tourism industry. The more of the above 5 factors the tour guides were agreed, the more they support the grading system. The last item in the survey is asking if the tour guides are in favor of the grading. On average, it falls at 5.03 and shows that a majority of guides are in favor of the grading system. The research recommends: Establishing a fair and impartial grading system of evaluation by the related organizations, establishing a tourism inspection system in the major tourist destinations, and setting up the Tourism Human Resources Association to manage the grading system.
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Wu, Tai-ting, and 吳代婷. "Applying Neutralization Theory to Discuss the Deviant Behavior of Tour Guides─ A Case of Tour Guide, Jane, Bulling Tourists." Thesis, 2011. http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/05977935195100292888.
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碩士國立高雄餐旅大學
旅遊管理研究所
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During the past one year, there are several serious travel disputes, the so called “bulling of tour guide”, leading to tourists dissatisfaction and complaints as well as damaging the destination images. Tour guide, as a first line of tourism service industry, should be paid more attention on his/her professional ethics and behaviors. According to Techniques of Neutralization, the research aims to understand how tour guide rationalizes his/her deviant behavior enabling drifts between legal and illegal. Moreover, exploring and analyzing the process of neutralization would make it possible to confirm the relationships among ethical emotions, cognitions and behavioral intentions. This research discovers Techniques of Neutralization used by the tour guide mainly thanks to video transcripts of tour guides abusing tourists. Through case study approach, a qualitative research design is adopted to gather typical and representative information related to bulling incidents of tour guides. Data are analyzed in Template Analysis Style by identifying techniques according to Neutralization Theory. The information collected makes it easier for researchers interesting in issues of professional ethics and deviant behaviors to have better understandings how neutralization works. In addition, it gives government officials in the tourism-related sector some advices to deal with and avoid deviant behaviors of tour guides by emphasizing that there is no excuse for service code of conduct non-compliance. The value of this research lies in its analysis and results. The research focuses on the professional ethics and discovers two new techniques in the case. These help us realizing the role-conflict results in ethic dilemma and furthermore the deviant behaviors.
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Liang, Chin-Yung, and 梁經庸. "Analysis on the Pre-service Training and Practice of Taiwan Tour Guides — Mandarin Chinese Tour Guide as An Example." Thesis, 2017. http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/9wzywh.
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碩士健行科技大學
國際企業經營系碩士在職專班
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In 2008, the Republic of China signed the Travel Agreement for Mainland Residents Traveling to Taiwan with China, opening tourism to the people of Mainland China to travel directly to Taiwan. As of now, eight years have passed and there has been a recorded total number of 15,762,203 people having visited Taiwan as at the end of 2015. As a response to Mainland tourists traveling to Taiwan, the number of Mandarin-speaking tour guides has increased from 4,951 since 2008 to 59,768 as of now. The training department engaged by the Tourism Bureau of the Ministry of Transportation and Communications of the ROC has carried out relevant training courses for mandarin-speaking tour guides, which offers two weeks of professional pre-employment training for a total of 98 hours to teach basic knowledge relating to tour guiding. After receiving certification upon qualifying an oral examination at the end of the course, professional practice may then be conducted. However, it has been found after actual practice that other than introducing travel destinations, other various knowledge and skills are also required to successfully lead a tour group. Therefore, the problem in the lack of training is evident as a result of such competency gap between pre-employment training and beginning actual practice. This study adopts a qualitative approach to interview a total of ten subjects, including the heads of travel agencies in the industry still receiving Chinese tour groups as well as experienced tour guides engaged in the business online. This study attempts to understand the competency gap between pre-employment training offered by the Tourism Bureau and practical demands for tour guides, and solutions are also proposed as reference for relevant units. This study has found that tour guides require other relevant skills in addition to receiving pre-employment training courses on the basic introduction to travel destinations and the culture and customs in Taiwan: 1.Including outdoor training courses in addition to indoor lectures mainly to simulate actual practice. Trainees can also conduct study groups to interact and learn from each other. 2.Inviting practicing tour guides or tour guides engaged in the business online to give lectures, allowing for the students to gain practical experience. 3.Sales involved in tour guiding is inevitable, appropriate inclusion of training courses to sales in tour guiding may create four-win situations (customer satisfaction, tour guide earning, company profit, increase in national tourism output value). 4.Tour guiding is a business of providing service to people, problems will arise as long as there is human interaction, therefore, improving the tour guides’ EQ and for them to learn to deal with different unexpected events will facilitate completing the whole itinerary successfully. 5.In order to provide comprehensive services to tourists visiting Taiwan and improving tourist satisfaction levels, tour guides should build and cultivate professional skills with a healthy attitude, seek the right experienced mentor to act as guidance, as well as learning and progressing at all times.
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Chan, De-Ming, and 詹德明. "Tour Guide Toy Car Based on Smart Floor." Thesis, 2007. http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/33299425043002683083.
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碩士國立中央大學
資訊工程學系碩士在職專班
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As science and technology being progressive, people''s quality of the life is being improved. The modern has already the attention and demand of activity quality of vacation, especially study knowing sex tour. But people usually have only a little background knowledge on exhibitions contents of planetarium, museum, Art Museum and other places,they have lost a good learning opportunity. Traditional museum provide tour guide services with expositors to give further explanations and answer visitor questions. However, expositor services are for group visitors and also the tour routes are fixed. Individual visitors are usually helpless during their museum visits such that lost chances to meet the treasure hidden in each exhibits. If can carry enough guide information with the light device, people not only can understand the exhibit concept, but also can visit with one''s own taste. This thesis proposes guide system to support a study environment in front, and with mechanism of management of back end. It let learner using guide system to reach study convenient, and the management can be effective. We use Smart Floor concept to build our environment, and offer the localization function at the same time. In order to increase the result of study, through multimedia, interesting question and answer, by different tour guide mode. Control the guide toy car action and transmit system relevant information through the wireless network technology. When reache the exhibits, use sounds and images to attract the learner''s attention. It will improve and increase the result of study. The back end offers the mechanism of management, include materials maintain, accounting management and Smart Floor data maintain etc.. The materials use database to store, will make it convenient be used and managed.
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高仕霖. "Cognitive Study Chinese Tour Guide of Professional Functions." Thesis, 2016. http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/jdeg9q.
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碩士景文科技大學
旅遊管理系觀光與餐旅管理碩士班
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Current job training or group training courses are vocational do-led government and arrangements to provide guides should have the basic knowledge and common sense, and no such training courses will vary from school each trainees experience, personality and background to produce individual differences navigation capabilities that many exam qualified personnel successfully completed the training to obtain a license, still can not directly into the workplace, so this study will be Chinese tour guide for the object, starting from own needs, discuss the desired learning Chinese tour guide demand training content assessment. In this study, against a Chinese tour guide personnel depending on qualifications, training for Chinese tour guide professional functions cognitive demand, Chinese tour operators to explore the use of questionnaires, tour guides should have the demand for training of professional functions, and to assess the qualifications of different attributes cognitive training guides for different professional functions, to assess the gap between training needs during the evaluation and correlation. In this study, a total of 481 questionnaires were issued, 296 questionnaires were recovered, the recovery rate 61.53%, 288 valid questionnaires, the effective rate of 59.87% questionnaires. Where no less than one year of experience and into the workplace by a total of 87, accounting for 30.02% issue total number of valid questionnaires. The study found professional tour guides not only good service, but also should be achieved in the tourism process for passengers to get professional information and guidance, so the working capacity of tour guides is diverse and complex, a full range of professionals, only have a good professional guides ability to complete the entire tourist service work. Guided qualifications have cognitive attributes of different professional functions of the significant differences in independent samples t-test for testing, personnel qualifications depth guide for professional knowledge, professional skills and professional attitude of the differences are significant.
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Tsai, Jui-Yuan, and 蔡瑞源. "A Study of Professional Tour Guide Development Process." Thesis, 2017. http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/ga9e3a.
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碩士國立屏東科技大學
休閒運動健康系所
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Purpose : In recent years, visitor arrivals increased year by year, the quality of tour guides, work attitude has also been taken seriously, in order to keep the operating performance, travel agencies makes the requirements to the tour guides, tour guides feel pressure, often having some disputes. Most of the tour guides are special contract, daily payment, and income is unstable, tour guides are very tired, therefore, professional tour guide face the challenges, difficulties, and workplace experience to develop the process is need to be study. Method： Consumers pays attention to travel, guide tourism development agents, is the soul of the tourism industry; prerequisite tour guide and work ethic, ability, accomplishment, status, etc. must be diligent to enhance, maintain good relationships, keep a smile during working, it should be dedicated, accumulated experience and knowledge; also, often participate in the discussion, consult peer predecessors; in-service training to observe, strive to absorb reading, recite the knowledge, listen, learn more, and look more. Require or criticize the competent authorities. It is better to strengthen their own, have dignified to be appreciated. Conclusion： travel agencies should apply for full-time tour guides, pay attention to employee benefits, the Tourism Bureau on the tour guide or pre-service training, can be high subsidies, often provide travel regulations or information, Ministry of Labor will tour as a general labor, the number of days tied to tie the feet, cannot be long-distance group to build lively. The total amount of the examination authority controls the supply and demand balance of the tour guide. Create government, employers, tour guides win.
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HUNG, YU-CHI, and 洪毓淇. "A Study of Chinese Tour Guide Professional Competency." Thesis, 2016. http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/42039156167619627338.
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碩士中華大學
科技管理學系
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95629Since the tourism industry is generally valued by all countries, has become one of the economic policy of our country is gaining momentum. But because under the current system, the test had a Chinese tour guide license, usually have to go through a long "job training" journey to explore. The main purpose of this study explore where the Chinese tour guides troubled factors. Therefore, by AHP, the Chinese tour guide professional competency built constitute class mode, the first layer of the main facets of 3: professional knowledge, professional skills and professional attitude. The second level criteria for the 12 factor index. Results of research and analysis, decision to prioritize the professional competency, provide guides to enter the Chinese workplace or just admitted practicing certificate ROC tour guides who can self-evaluation to improve professional competency, as well as providing training on academic institutions and practices of the national examination system reference. Aimed at enhancing the competitiveness of the tourism industry.
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Pei, Chia-Hsuan, and 貝佳瑄. "A Painting Exhibition Guide System and Tour Tracking." Thesis, 2010. http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/06480166650015769648.
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碩士國立交通大學
資訊學院資訊科技(IT)產業研發碩士專班
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In this thesis, the proposed system based on image retrieval and camera calibration is used to provide the indoor painting exhibition guide and tour tracking. The system consists of two parts. The first part aims at user’s searching for images of paintings. Users can get the information about paintings of interest by simply inputting a picture of them. The system provides the inquiry service about the input query image. Once the query image identity is verified and the camera pose is estimated, the system returns the pertinent information of the query painting image. The second part is about constructing the location of the exhibited painting through the pose estimation and the recoding of the tour path. This service not only can be an indoor positioning system but also provides useful suggestions for viewing the missing painting exhibition. The proposed system provides a brand new experience in visiting galleries and museums.
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Shih, Chih-Chien, and 石志堅. "Design and Implemention of a Tour-Guide Robot." Thesis, 2006. http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/31035192925097280012.
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碩士國立中興大學
電機工程學系所
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This thesis aims at developing methodologies and techniques for system design and navigation of a tour-guide robot. The module approach and integrated system engineering method are used to construct such a practical tour guide robot used for a museum. After several kinds well-established tour guide robot in the world are surveyed, a solid, feasible and pragmatic system design and configuration of the robot is then presented. Based on the designed system structure and functionalities, we have achieved the design and implementation of the mobile platform for the robot, the selection and installation of the sensors for robot navigation, the interfacing techniques of these sensors, the navigation subsystem using a laser scanner, the two-PC (personal computer) computation subsystem, and the design of the touch-screen man-machine interaction subsystem. Several experiments are conducted to show the feasibility and efficacy of the proposed methods and techniques for the tour-guide robot.
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Larga, Filipe Eduardo da Silva Vida. "A mobile tour guide app for sustainable tourism." Master's thesis, 2020. http://hdl.handle.net/10071/22033.
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Portugal has had a flourishing tourism sector for the past few years. In fact, Portugal’s tourism
boom has made the industry one of the biggest contributors to the national economy and the
largest employer. In the year 2019, Portugal had a total of 27 million tourists, surpassing once
again the record established in the previous year. However, tourism also brings a series of
unintended negative side effects, such as overcrowding. The Santa Maria Maior historic district
in Lisbon is being particularly affected by this problem.
The work undertaken in this dissertation is part of the Sustainable Tourism Crowding project,
that aims to mitigate the overcrowding phenomenon in this district, by fostering a balanced
distribution of visitors while promoting the visitation of sustainable points of interest. This
dissertation focuses on developing a mobile app prototype targeted at tourists, through which
these sustainable walking tour recommendations can be delivered.
To validate the functional requirements of the prototype, more specifically the trip creation
process, a series of unit tests, integration tests, and manual tests were developed. To evaluate
the usability of the prototype, a user-centered approach was adopted during the design stage,
in which two usability techniques were conducted with members of ISCTE’s research center
ISTAR and partners from the Junta de Freguesia de Santa Maria Maior, that guided and validated
the decisions made.
The achieved prototype contains mechanisms for measuring tourists’ adherence to the
recommended tours using the Dynamic Time Warping algorithm, which raises new research
opportunities on tourists’ behaviour.O desenvolvimento próspero do setor turístico em Portugal nos últimos anos fez da indústria um dos maiores contribuintes para a economia nacional e o maior empregador do país. No ano de 2019, Portugal recebeu um total de 27 milhões de turistas, ultrapassando uma vez mais uma vez o recorde estabelecido no ano anterior. No entanto, o turismo traz também uma série de efeitos secundários negativos não intencionais, tais como overcrowding. A freguesia histórica de Santa Maria Maior em Lisboa está a ser particularmente afetada por este problema. O trabalho desenvolvido nesta dissertação faz parte do projeto de pesquisa Sustainable Tourism Crowding, que visa mitigar o fenómeno de overcrowding nesta freguesia, promovendo uma distribuição equilibrada dos visitantes e incentivando a visita de pontos de interesse sustentáveis. Esta dissertação foca-se no desenvolvimento de uma aplicação móvel protótipo destinada a turistas, através do qual recebem recomendações de visitas sustentáveis. Para validar os requisitos funcionais do protótipo, mais especificamente o processo de criação de visitas, foram desenvolvidos testes unitários, testes de integração, e testes manuais. Para avaliar a usabilidade do protótipo, foi adotada uma abordagem centrada no utilizador durante a fase de conceção, em que foram utilizadas duas técnicas de usabilidade em parceria com o ISTAR (centro de investigação do ISCTE) e com a Junta de Freguesia de Santa Maria Maior, cujos resultados guiaram e validaram as decisões tomadas. O protótipo desenvolvido contém mecanismos para medir a aderência dos turistas às recomendações sugeridas através do algoritmo Dynamic Time Warping, proporcionando novas oportunidades de pesquisa nesta área.
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Shih, Chihching, and 施芝菁. "Evaluation of the Policies for Obtaining Tour Guide License." Thesis, 2012. http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/86046932253419023097.
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Qian, Xinyi Yarnal Careen MacKay. "The benefits of being a volunteer campus tour guide." 2009. http://etda.libraries.psu.edu/theses/approved/WorldWideIndex/ETD-3787/index.html.
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Ko, Hsiu-Ju, and 柯秀儒. "Path Following Study of the Intelligent Tour-Guide Robot." Thesis, 2017. http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/14167180888599758093.
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碩士吳鳳科技大學
光機電暨材料研究所
105
With the development of robot technology, some countries in the world art museum, museum or exhibition hall can be seen as a robot tour service.The Most of the general navigation robot to multimedia and multimedia, voice or gestures to introduce and guide.The intelligent navigation robot studied in this paper combines the navigation robot with the intelligent wheelchair so that the visitor can easily sit on the tour robot to visit. In the intelligent navigation robot installed on the laser positioning system for precision positioning, and then use the path planning system to calculate the shortest path to the basis of the robot as a basis for the road. In order to detect the obstacle, the robot is installed under the robot, and the reflective infrared sensor is detected as an obstacle to ensure the safety of the vehicle. The study also designed the navigation of the robot voice navigation and fixed-point voice navigation function, you can let the navigation robot instead of tour guides, for the user for fixed-point navigation and voice introduction. In the navigation robot to touch the screen to select the destination, and brought to the destination and for voice introduction, allowing users to enjoy the unique intelligent navigation robot automatic pointing and voice navigation introduced.
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Nga, Le Thi Hang, and 黎氏姮娥. "Exploring Some Basic Qualities of a Good Tour Guide." Thesis, 2013. http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/44427491585139075864.
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碩士國立高雄應用科技大學
資通產品研發與生產碩士外國學生專班
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Nowadays, people usually have more free time to leave their permanent living places for travelling around leading to the development of tourism. Considered as a smokeless industry, tourism has received the extraordinary attraction of numerous countries in the world for sustainable development. In the tourism industry, tour guides play a vital role in developing the tour activities. Therefore, guiding tours is a special career with a high demand in the quality of tour guides in order to not only complete the assigned tasks and train their professional skills but also eliminate the negative phenomena arose during the trips. Due to the great potential contributions of the tourism to the national economic growth, Vietnam has been paying a huge effort and investment to develop the tourism industry; as a result, the labor demand in the industry has recently been soared up. This is both a good opportunity and a big challenge to those who are interested in tourism as well as trying to experience a lovely ordeal in the newly formed industry in Vietnam. However, recently, the fact that more and more Vietnamese people lacking of fundamental knowledge, skills, capabilities, etc., are working as tour guides has totally defeated the national great attempt in creating attractive tourism products. Therefore, in this thesis, basic qualities of a good tour guide is necessarily addressed in order to offer certain contribution in the recruitment, training, fostering and developing well-qualified tour guides in terms of career quality, conducts and manners in the process of building a good image, popularizing the country and Vietnamese people to the world as well as unceasingly developing the “smokeless industry” in Vietnam. By using the survey questionnaire method, seven important qualities are found, including intellectual qualities, ability to communicate, personality qualities, political quality, professional ethics, professional reputation, qualities capacity and quality will. Our findings with our proposed solutions in this study can be used as a good reference source for training institutions and companies in the teaching, training and using the contingent of tour guides.
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Kellow, Matthew. "The role of the sea kayak tour guide : mixed methods exploration into the guides' perspective." 2011. http://hdl.handle.net/10170/514.
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This study examines the phenomenon of wilderness tour guiding in order to identify how natural tourism guides recognize, understand, and utilize the opportunity to deliver interpretation to clients. The study utilized personal interviews, participant field observations, and an industry survey. Interviews explored the perspectives of four veteran sea kayak guides, one raft and one mountain guide. Following the interviews a survey was administered to a British Columba based sea kayak guiding professional body. Lastly, the results from both the interviews and survey were further explored through participant field observations of sea kayak guides leading commercial tours. Results demonstrate that sea kayak guides believe themselves to be facilitating opportunities for environmental and cultural learning and behavioral change within their clients; however, the field observations did not completely support the survey results, highlighting a difference between what sea kayak guides self reported compared to actual guides in the field.
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Huang, Hsin-Kai, and 黃信凱. "The Construction of Tourism Professional Ethical Code for the Tour Guide and Tour Conductor in Taiwan." Thesis, 2011. http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/11050875915677349437.
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碩士銘傳大學
觀光事業學系碩士在職專班
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As an industry, tourism is considered the world’s largest and most important, each year carrying millions of travelers around the world. However, the tourism ethics received attention until 1990. Tourism affects a broad range of the population, socially and culturally in the tourism destinations, and it also affects natural environment. As front-line professional workers in the travel and tourism industry, tour guide and tour conductor to engender a significant level of trust if they are to be thought of as knowledgeable professionals. Therefore, many countries have their own ethical code for the tour guide and tour conductor. In Taiwan, we just start the steps. Especially our government emphasizes the professional qualifications. This research is the first one try to explore the topic and a good new method to evaluate the professional ethical code for Taiwan’s tourism. The results will help the tour guide and tour conductor to increase ethical awareness and sensitivity, also provide moral guidance to the travel professional members and consumers of the services provided as noted above.
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Lai, Chia-hsin, and 賴佳欣. "An Action Research on the Outcome Improvement of Community Tour Guide Training: Using Hamasen Cultural and Historical Tour Guide Training Class as an Example." Thesis, 2016. http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/f9sr6a.
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碩士國立中山大學
公共事務管理研究所
104
The Hamasen community in Kaohsiung was the political and economic center, as well as the origin of Takao’s urban modernization during Japanese rule of Taiwan. The community has rich value and characteristics in culture and history. In order to deepen the root of Hamasen’s culture and history, and also cultivate more tour guides for promoting local culture, “Takao Renaissance Association”, the local cultural and historical organization, started a training course to cultivate tour guides dedicated to Hamasen’s culture and history in 2013. After the completion of the training courses, however, there were not too many trainees who chose to stay in the community and serve as tour guides. Therefore, I cooperated with the association by using an action research approach, and aimed to intervene in the planning and implementation of the training course during the second training course in 2015, and evaluate the result. The “action” phase of this study included the course design, preparation and implementation; the “research” stage was mainly done through in-depth interviews with the 25 trainees, and the “effectiveness” of the course was evaluated accordingly. Trainees’ suggestions were then collected and compiled, and discussed among the organizers of the course and I. Possible directions and corrections of future training courses were discussed. Up until now, one year after the training course, no trainee has passed the evaluation to become a certified cultural tour guide yet. But the course has made some impacts: for example, many trainees bring their family and friends to visit Hamasen again; willing and active trainees later participate in book clubs, dinners, and advanced training. In addition, the current networks and cohesion among trainees, as well as participation in community activities, are stronger, compared to trainees in the course of 2013. These findings suggest that perhaps in terms of the orientation of the training courses, we should not only focus on the number of trainees who eventually become certified tour guides, but also consider positive values and potential impacts of other works on community work, local culture and history. As for how to increase the number of certified cultural and historical tour guides, several suggestions can be made. First, in order to build trainees’ recognition and identity to the role they are assuming, the role of “volunteer service” should be emphasized on the recruitment advertisement. Second, advanced courses should be offered to help the trainees pass the certification and promoted to tour guides. Third, the association should actively encourage trainees to build networks and communicate with and motivate one another, so that trainees could be more active in promoting local culture and history.
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Wei, Ting-Ying, and 魏廷頴. "The Design of PDA Tour Guide System with RFID Technology." Thesis, 2009. http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/44569135201561847876.
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碩士正修科技大學
電子工程研究所
97
The applications of GPS satellite navigation in recent years have been more and more popular. It has already been the indispensable important technology used in the fields of national defense, geographical information and architecture work etc... Although most GPS satellite navigation systems can be applied to the automobile, but general road maps information only open to public in some common road information, private area and specific road of district have no road map information. In order to enable the access to specific area with electronic road maps through convenient way, we have developed a guiding software applied to PDA with the satellite navigation. We also use RFID tags embedded in destination place, and the mobile terminal with RFID interrogator will receive the location identifiers from RFID tags embedded into the concrete blocks of destination building or sight spot. When user select a favorite tour course, the mobile terminal guides the user to the place by using pedestrian navigation systems, then the system trigger by RFID tag shows the multimedia introductions and relevant informations of the place on the screen. This API electronic map information system can be applied to navigate in the school campus or scenic spot tour guidance services.
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LWIN, MA NAY KYAR MYO, and 馬勝敏. "A Study of Mobile Tour Guide System for Specific Zones." Thesis, 2015. http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/9xw9mh.
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碩士國立中興大學
資訊管理學系所
103
As our living standard has risen, fair and commercial exhibition have been the places for leisure and entertainment. In the past, we can get the exhibition information from news-paper and travel magazine, the location of fair ground and route have to found from the plan that fair organization provided. Visitor regards the best quality of the fair, time costs, it is important to reduce the visitor time costing, and have the best experience in fair ground. Unfortunately visitor can be affected by the rush hour and some waiting time. Consider those problems that visitors met in the fair ground, this research is trying to develop the Fair guide to assist the visitors, giving the required exhibition lists, name, hall or locations information, visitor’ physical environment, fast orientation and navigation. Nowadays, the smart phone using rate is increase, print-media and computer web-site were substituted by smart-phone. We tend to provide the fair information by using smart-phone. To understand visitor requirements and to assist them in their tour, we surveyed many factors such as visitor’ needs, their aims and wishes and set up our proto-concept. As the situation-awareness concept application can help visitors to get information in the fair ground, and can navigate them, so we use situation-awareness concept to design our application. The application designed a different functions to assist the visitors and helping to reduce the time costs and visiting the fair effectively. We designed questionnaires to collect reflections of our system. The result shows that most of the respondents think the application can save their time, provide them required information and the system is useful, and show high willingness to use in their tour.
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Hsieh, Chuan-Sheng, and 謝全勝. "Development of Indoor Positioning Algorithms for Intelligent Tour Guide Robot." Thesis, 2018. http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/ss68eh.
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碩士國立勤益科技大學
電子工程系
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This thesis is mainly intended to develop an indoor positioning calculation system for intelligent tour guide robots. A VILS module produced by SMIMS is applied for processing and calculation in development of an indoor positioning system. Ultra-wide band (UWB) is the principal technology, VILS module contains DWM1000 wafer produced by DecaWave adopted due to its strong anti-interference performance, high positioning accuracy, low cost, safety and low energy consumption. Time difference of arrival (TDOA), Chan and Taylor are adopted in calculation to increase positioning accuracy. The system is mainly composed of one tag, three sensors and a central processing unit (CPU). Each sensor is connected to the CPU and fixated at known coordinates. The tag sends positioning signals to the sensors and each sensor transmits the signals to be calculated by the CPU to establish the tag location. The average error of this positioning system is 25-50cm. This indoor positioning system can be operated in diverse approaches and is also highly transplantable. It can be applied for military, commercial and public security purposes.
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Hsieh, Ching-Yu, and 謝青砡. "A Study of Working Behavior of Chinese Speaking Tour Guide." Thesis, 2014. http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/59992631042981410888.
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碩士國立高雄餐旅大學
旅遊管理研究所在職專班
102
The government has actively opened the restriction on the number of tourists from Mainland China to Taiwan since 2008, and lead to the number of group tourists from Mainland China redoubling, and it has replaced Japanese tourists and becomes a large amount of tourists enter Taiwan. It has great importance that the issue on servicing the tourists from Mainland China to Taiwan by professional Chinese speaking tour guides. This research aims to explore and in response to the change in China’s tourism policy, and understand in depth whether the opportunistic behavior that may generated when the professional Chinese speaking tour guides face the work with low-income, high-risk and long hours will affect their service quality. This research objects are 16 persons in total who are current professional Chinese speaking tour guides in Tainan and Kaohsiung areas and with conducting in-depth interviews, it explores the “Stress Management”, “Work Risk”, “Opportunistic”, “Service Quality” relevance in four aspects of their practices. It integrated four aspects and 70 indicators and factors in total. Then with the aid of Delphi Method technical analysis method, it conducted two rounds Delphi of questionnaires with 100% recovery rate of 16 copies in total. Through average, standard deviation, quartile deviation, Kendall’s W verification as four convergence criteria, it deleted indicators and factors which do not match the standard on the first round and conducted the second round questionnaire analysis. Final result integrates four aspects and 56 indicators and factors in total which included aspect of “Stress Management” with 12 items in total, which holds that item of “cut tour guide’s travel expense” is the most important indicator and factor; aspect of “Work Risk” with 13 items in total, item of “company closes down without warning” is the most important indicator and factor; aspect of “Opportunistic” with 8 items in total, item of “lead members to go into the shopping stations without contracting” is the most important indicator and factor; aspect of “Service Quality” with 19 items in total, item of “spirit and attitude of engagement” is the most important indicator and factor. In short, the professional Chinese speaking tour guides consider facing the reduction of income and unstable operation of the company, and then lead members to go other shopping stations to earn more opportunities for speculation of income. However, they still hold the professional attitude as the principle to service members. Overview that all walks of life has an insufficient importance degree on the practice behavior of Chinese speaking tour guide, so we hope Chinese speaking tour guide practitioners in the future, travel industry, tourism academia, government units, all sectors of tourism industry and subsequent researches can take this research as reference, and can provide the Chinese speaking tour guides a securer working environment to enhance Taiwan’s tourism service quality, travelers’ tourist willing to visit Taiwan and create cross-strait tourism vision.
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Huang, Feng-Wei, and 黃豐偉. "A Case Study of Constructing Smart Mobile Tour Guide Systems." Thesis, 2016. http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/63711728774043456675.
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碩士南榮科技大學
工程科技研究所碩士班
104
With the ongoing growth of Information and Communication Technology (ICT), comes the arrival of Smartphone Age. To support the ongoing growth of ICT technology, the government even took forward the ideas of smart living as starting points, to create Taiwan’s new Network of Smart Communities, and made use of smart network technologies in response to the needs of people for living. The Moon Port region of Yanshui District, reputed for its shape of the land and its well-known port, is one of the oldest towns in Taiwan. The regeneration project for the retro glamour of Moon Port has changed and evolved Yanshui. The project itself has even received a bronze medal from International Livable Communities for Environmentally Sustainable Project. Yanshui has kept many cultural living arrangements, traditional buildings, as well as multicultural believes, plus Moon Festival Beehive Rocket Fireworks Culture etc., in the development of history in Taiwan, portraying Yanshui as a Museum of Community History overall. Through the use of digital multimedia technologies with handheld mobile phones’ Global Positing System and interactive Augmented Reality technology, this paper integrates the creation of site maps with Smartphone application, and in turn, realizes the Smartphone Age visions. As a whole, this paper collects and value adds the various cultures in Yanshui, creating e-books, video recordings, of local cultural aspects in Yanshui, and integrating Smartphone application, to create a “Play in Yanshui” smart tour map, as well as combining the Global Positing System on handheld phones, to deeply experience the daily cultural living arrangements in the old Southern Bridge Street of Moon Port, the traditional Octagon Building, the multicultural believes of the Catholic Church, plus visits to the newly refurbished water park in Moon Port. Simultaneously, via the “Experience of Beehive Rocket Fireworks Culture in Depth,” encounter the Beehive Rocket Fireworks Culture at Yanshui during Moon Festival, and then explore the aspects of Beehive Rocket Fireworks Culture throughout the year. After that, stop by to admire the Beehive Rocket architecture and its glory. Then afterward, go deeper into experiencing and understanding the marquise and its origin, along with the Martial God Temple. Furthermore, with the use of the marquise as a landmark for the Martial God Temple and as a symbol of spiritual growth, this paper has created a “Yanshui Martial God Temple Marquise Blessing” postcard from Smart Kiosk Technology and Augmented Reality, a mix between real world object and the virtual reality scene. By using the postcard for picture taking with the marquise, the outcome captures a strong sense of blessing appearing. With the outcome being posted and shared on social networks in that instance, the vision set out for the wireless information age “Where Everyone Could Enjoy the Attentive Service Offered Anytime, Anywhere, via the Use of Smart Terminal Device” is realized.
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Wang, Min-Yu, and 王敏玉. "Autonomous Navigation and Interactive Operation of a Tour Guide Robot." Thesis, 2007. http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/90597861158887516255.
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碩士國立中興大學
電機工程學系所
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This thesis develops methodologies and techniques for navigation and human-robot interaction of a tour-guide robot with improved system configuration. The designed navigation system includes automatic mapping, global localization, dynamic path planning, local goal-seeking, safe obstacle-avoidance, behavior fusion, and autonomous robot control. The RFID module for global pose initialization is presented based on the RSSI measurements, the proposed calibration method and least square method. With the gross initial robot pose, accurate robot localization and automatic mapping are achieved by fusing the RFID data and laser scanning measurements utilizing an extended Kalman filter. The global path planning algorithm is generated by dynamic programming method. The Petri-net model is employed to construct the event-driven logic control sequence from the present states of the robot and assigned tour missions, thus achieving autonomous navigation and high-level control. An operational scenario for human-robot interaction is stipulated for the robot; the scenario can be accomplished by combining teleoperation, facial expression, dual-arm swing, static exploration mode and dynamic tour-guide mode. The human-robot interaction system is designed to attract attention of visitors, and further increase funny interactions between the robot and the visitors. Several experimental results are conducted to confirm the efficacy of the proposed methods and techniques. These techniques are expected useful and effective in designing a pragmatic tour-guide robot.
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Lee, Ching-Chao, and 李敬超. "A Context-aware Museum Tour Guide for Mobile Collaborative Learning." Thesis, 2003. http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/67118312810543564775.
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碩士國立中央大學
資訊工程研究所
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In Taiwan, people are getting more aware of their time spent on holidays. In addition to outdoor activities, indoor activities such as visits to museums and galleries are getting more popular. But people usually have only a little background knowledge on exhibitions and they can hardly reach exhibit information beyond the illustration tags. Therefore most museums provide tour guide services with expositors to give further explanations and answer visitor questions. However, expositor services are for group visitors and also the tour routes are fixed. Individual visitors are usually helpless during their museum visits such that lost chances to meet the treasure hidden in each exhibits. A museum tour guide system that is used not only for individual visitors but also to facilitate collaborative activities is proposed in the thesis. Using a mobile device as personal museum expert such that people may visit exhibits freely while exposing himself or herself to a rich knowledge base at the same time. The introduction of Computer Supported Collaborative Learning brings more potential learning supplements to the guide system such that users may share their knowledge to others and teachers in an educational excursion can monitor the learning effects of students. After the implementation, we have held an experiment to see how the proposed system helps a class of students visit a dinosaur exhibition. During the experiment, a competition was held to encourage the use of proposed system. Results after the experiment show that users were found of the system and averagely over 60% users were satisfied by the supplied functions.
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Lin, I.-Ling, and 林怡伶. "A study of vocabularies used in the Japanese speaking tour conductor and tour guide tests in Taiwan." Thesis, 2011. http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/47590586218350430177.
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碩士義守大學
應用日語學系碩士班
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According to the statistic data released by Tourism Bureau, Taiwan, the number of Japanese visiting Taiwan was the most among the foreign tourists in 2008 and 2009. Furthermore, in 2010, the number of Taiwan tourists traveling to Japan climbed to 1 million. In view of this, we know that J Japanese speaking tour conductors and Japanese speaking tour guides play decisive roles in Taiwan tourism industry. From 2004 on, the tests of tour conductors and tour guides in Taiwan have been held by Ministry of Examination of the Examination Yuan of Taiwan. This research took the tests of tour conductors and tour guides from 2004 to 2010 as the research subjects and preceded the vocabulary survey. Through the statistics of syntactic function and origin of vocabulary, the vocabularies used by the tour conductors and tour guides were understood. Besides, in contrast to the vocabulary list of the Japanese test criterion, the vocabulary grade distribution of the tests of tour conductors was examined with metrology. The research results showed that the ratio of “particle” was the highest among the statistic results of the syntactic function, followed by “noun”. As for the statistic results of the origin of vocabulary, the ratio of traditional Japanese was the highest. In addition, regarding the grade statistic result, the vocabularies of grade 4 were the most, and those of grade 2 were the second.
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Li, Ming-Yu, and 李明裕. "A Tour Guide System with Shareable Content Objects for Mobile Learning." Thesis, 2004. http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/10264894385211525988.
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碩士國立中央大學
資訊工程研究所
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With the prosperity of the Internet, more and more people using it. Internet has already influenced our life directly, such as friend-making , information transmission , on-line shopping and e-learning. Our life and Internet can not be separated. By the inference of Internet which change our life. Let us learn in different way and tour guide learning is one. This thesis will focus on the tour guide system to offer the environment for learning. The system combine location service and management system. Make it easy for learner to learn from the tour guide system., and the management of system can be effective. Because most contents of tour guide system are specific formats. By using SCORM (Shareable Content Object Reference Model) as course standard. Combines tour guide system and SCORM courses. The SCORM courses makes the content of the tour guide system more richer. Makes it easy for learner to interchange courses between different environment (such as the school and museum). share the learning experience to each other. To improve the quality of tour guide courses, and make it to suite the requirement of tour guide system. In this thesis will design a butterfly tour guide courses for learning. Let learning not only at home or school, but also in museum. Make learning every where every time. By using SCORM sharing mechanism, learner can download their favorite learning materials, make learning resources can be reused and popularization.
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Song, King_lung, and 宋金龍. "The research of Mainland China tourism policy as tour guide viewpoint." Thesis, 2012. http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/kj693b.
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碩士景文科技大學
觀光與餐旅管理研究所
100
The Chinese visitors are majority of the Taiwanese in bound tourism resource. In Taiwanese tourism industry, the travel agencies and the visitors are still insufficient. This research will discuss the market, facilities, tour guides' satisfaction, and their acceptance of the current laws and regulations from the point of view as tour guides. By using the Delphi's method, a survey was made to 30 candidates, who were either carefully chosen or randomly sampled by professional tour guides, with at least 2 years of experience and have led 20 groups regularly per year. Study shows, the service quality is poor for Chinese tour guides while guiding their visitors in Taiwan. Therefore, we recommend our Tourism Bureau to request China officials to open the market to all agencies and to punish those who conducting low price competetion inorder to maintain our reputation. Furthermore, the official exam system for the tour guides need to be improved because there are many unqualified tour guides who are not able to meet the needs of their consumers. We suggest our Toursim Bureau to raise the exam standard so that the tour guides can have better service and standard.
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Jung, Chien-Fang, and 容健芳. "A Hybrid Approach for Personalized Tour Guide Service and Tip Estimation." Thesis, 2014. http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/c355p2.
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碩士淡江大學
企業管理學系碩士班
102
The growth of service industry impacts the economic development nowadays. However, service heterogeneity is still one of the complex problems to maintain superior service quality. Existing researches attempted to discuss and solve the problem of unstable service quality caused by human beings, such as the appropriateness of job for service providers and education training of staff to standardize the process and control service quality. In addition, some literature investigated the role of customer in service delivering process and the gap between their expectation and perception. Nevertheless, a few researches emphasized on the effect of interaction between service providers and customers that may result in different level of service quality. This research proposes a new service process by utilizing self-organizing maps and collaborative filtering to form a hybrid approach (including choosing the service providers and the amounts of given tips) based on customer perception. Through the unsupervised learning network, self-organizing maps can cluster and discover the similar segments of customers. Next, we use collaborative filtering approach to predict new customer’s preference based on similar segments. The proposed approach can effectively forecast customer’s preferences among service providers and assign appropriate employee to serve. Based on customer service experience and the local culture for tips, we can calculate the appropriate amount of tips as recommendation for customers. To blend customer-oriented spirit into service process, the proposed method also can effectively improve the level of satisfaction of customers. The result shows average value of MAP (mean average value) is 81% and the maximum value of MAP is 85%, which is good for the experiment. The attributes of recommending employees can fit to customer preference more. In other words, our approach can effectively bridge the gap between customer expectation and perception. Finally, the result also reflects on the amount of suggesting tips (i.e., the more the employee can match to the preference, the more tips customer may give).
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Tan, Shiang, and 譚翔. "Panoramic Video-based Virtual Reality Tour Guide on the Smartphone Platform." Thesis, 2018. http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/hp9a9b.
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碩士國立東華大學
資訊工程學系
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Virtual reality is a computer technology that makes users feel the immersive experience. From the early, some machine and equipment were able to stimulate sight, sound, touch, and even smell. Owing to the fast growing technology of virtual reality in recent years, there have been holographic head-mounted displays that are easy to wear. However, due to its weight, high price and hardware requirements, related products are difficult for some users to fetch and use. In response to this problem, Google announces Cardboard, a new concept of virtual reality headset that is lightweight and low-priced for the smartphone platform, providing free resources for developers. This paper is based on the concept of cardboard, using Unity3D as the development environment to build a virtual reality tour guide application for the smartphone platform. The whole research method, development process and system architecture are described in detail first. After that, there is also analysis of user study for the evaluation of the overall system operation and design.
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Yang, Chieh-Han, and 楊杰翰. "The Exploratory Study of the Relationship Between Tour Leader and Guide." Thesis, 2015. http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/79988984166012596575.
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碩士國立體育大學
休閒產業經營學系
103
Tourism industry is also known as no smokestack, the more the number of tourists, the longer the tourist residence time, the amount of energy in local consumption will be higher, and therefore can be driven by local economic benefits will be relatively higher, furthermore not to do factories still can be able to provide local employment opportunities to enhance the national GDP, and therefore the world tourism industry is scrambling to develop the industry, the importance of which is self-evident. This study will investigate the relationship between the tour guide and leader in group travel packages, understanding the impression management strategies among tour guide leader used complementary or is contradictory? And try to clarify what kind of the relationship between the tour guide and tour leader? Understanding the kind of relationship to tour guide and tour leader, could know what way to do their job content better. For a creation of high-value industries, the same type (tour leader and service quality) complaint cases accounted for all the complaints to the industrial quarter of the amount of compensation cases, is a very serious and urgent need to improve the situation. However, past research groups on package travel, the more the situation between the guide or leader and members, the addition is member satisfaction with the entire group travel packages, rarely study the relationship between the tour leader and tour guide of reference. This study will use depth interviews with an open question interview. Depth interview is defined by the respondent and surveying knowledge and ability required by the work, job duties, working conditions and so on ... a way to communicate face to face discussions, in order to collect a wide range of information needed. The results of this study found to either tour guides or tour leaders, for their own and each other's work content are very understanding, thereby tour guide and tour leader that clear what to do with each other should to do. Impression management policy for the selection of the first impression, as tour guides, tour belong to personnel services industry and have their whole customer view along the two in the next, and therefore found that the guide and leader of the parties of first impression in an interview impression management choices are all more peaceful and a more tactful manner, and therefore the choice of only impression management "model" and "begged" management options for the main impression, in the first impression will not giving more negative or strong approach. This study via interviews guides, tour leader will summarize the results of the analysis of the following four relations, namely cooperation patterns, confrontation, hostility patterns, one of the dominant patterns, patterns separate the two sides. Tour guide and leader in most of the situation appears to be mutually assist, or want to maintain good relations with each other. The main cause of differences there are two, one for the tour guide and leader of the interests involved, and pay and pay. Two of the tour's purpose and philosophy or not, in the case of both philosophies will result in a lack of good communication differences and conflicts.
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HO, HSIN-HUEI, and 何信輝. "A study of the relationships among presenteeism, work values and job satisfaction for tour leader and tour guide." Thesis, 2016. http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/23053833381573637532.
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碩士中國文化大學
觀光事業學系觀光休閒事業管理碩士在職專班
104
The paper point out that the work value effects on the job satis-faction of tour guides and tour leaders. Because of the current eco-nomic depression, tour guides and tour leaders often force themselves to continue working in order to keep their jobs though they feel physically uncomfortable. This phenomenon of the presenteeism is worthy of tourism industry's attentions and discussions. In this study, the questionnaires answered by tour guides and tour leaders show the relationship between the presenteeism and the work value as well as between the presenteeism and the job satisfaction. After data analysis is done, the results of the study show that the work value and the job satisfaction have a positive relationship, and so do the work value and the presenteeism. Conversely, the job satisfaction and the presenteeism have a negative relationship. The discussions in this study are based on the results of researches, giving recommendations on future researches.
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Hsu, Yuan-Ling, and 許元齡. "A tour of museum curriculum and to guide visitors’ aesthetic experience study." Thesis, 2009. http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/70942798791891749520.
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碩士國立臺北教育大學
課程與教學研究所
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The main purpose of this study is to understand a tour how to comprehend the relation of a tour, visitors, exhibits and exhibition environment, how to constructive museum curriculum, and how to induce visitors’ aesthetic experiences.The major findings are as follows: the understanding of museum curriculum of a tour tends to learning experience. Museum curriculum’s constructive in accordance with learner’s ability and exhibits’ relevance, to select and to organize guide contents. Besides, a tour use guide tactics to promote visitors to learn, and then, a tour use multiple appreciation methods to stimulate visitors’ aesthetic knowledge, perception, emotion and to communication with exhibits. According to the findings, the researcher proposes the suggestions, which are based on my study about aspect of curators, tour, audience and different ways of aesthetic experience for the future researchers who are interested in this topic.
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Chou, Hsiang-Ning, and 周湘寧. "An Augmented Reality Indoor Ubiquitous Tour Guide Based On Dead-Reckoning Technology." Thesis, 2012. http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/25034317055143017214.
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碩士國立臺北教育大學
數位科技設計學系(含玩具與遊戲設計碩士班)
100
Due to the boost of the smart handheld device market, demanding for tour Apps has also been substantially increased. As the indoor positioning technology is still under development and rarely deployed, tour Apps have been majorly focusing on outdoor usage. Presently, most of indoor tour Apps can only offer fixed-location tour guide, and an ubiquitous indoor tour guide system always needs pre-installed indoor postioning equipments. This research thus developed an indoor tour guide system, which combines the dead-reckoning technology and augmented reality technology to support a new touring experience. For the dead-reckoning, this work uses a simple method to count steps and obtain stride-length. After comparing with previous three algorithms, this research proposes an improved stride-length estimation algorithm for the applications of low-cost indoor positioning systems. To develop the augmented reality touring system, we utilized an Open GL ES-based Min3d API to construct the virtual space. Then, we mapped the virtual space onto the real space, and determined the position on virtual space by user’s perception. Finally, the indoor augmented reality touring effects show on user’s handheld. According to the algorithm tests, we can find that a precision of 0.4 meters can be achieved in a 14 meters test case by using the improved stride-length estimation algorithm. Meanwhile, the touring length can be arbitrarily expanded by using adjusting cards. Finally, the proposed algorithm is applied to an indoor ubiquitous tour guide system. The results also show that the guidance effects can accurately demonstrate at pre-specific locations.
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Chou, Ying, and 周映汝. "How Tour Guide Characteristics Influence Customer RelationshipMaintenance: An Investigation Of Mediating Mechanisms." Thesis, 2012. http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/88673955218094901249.
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碩士國立臺北大學
企業管理學系
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According to “relationship marketing”, “organization field” and “quality research results”, this study bring up important tour guide attributes. I also use social mediating mechanisms and psychological mediating mechanisms (“tourist’s satisfaction toward tour guide” and “tourist’s identification toward tour guide”) to strengthen “tourist’s loyalty toward travel agency”. I also refer to extant research to design my questionnaire and distribute it to Taiwanese to verify the model that I purposed. I tested structure model by means of LISREL. My research discovered that tour guide’s attribute may affect “tourist’s loyalty toward travel agency” through “tourist’s satisfaction toward tour guide” and “tourist’s identification toward tour guide”. The research discovered that the significance of tour guide is as follows:” individual consideration”, “similarity”, and “expertise”. Although customer identified and satisfied with their tour guide, they still have no repurchasing behavior such as WOM. Thus, I use “customer orientation’’ as moderator to verify the moderate effect between mediating mechanisms and dependent variable.