Tour guide explains general skills

Tour guides need to have good eloquence in order to arouse tourists' great interest in the scenic spots and also be able to speak the same language with tourists. Then let’s talk about the general explanation skills of tour guides, don’t miss them.

1. There is a question-and-answer method, or a self-questioning and answering method. The question-and-answer method is a common explanation method, which can inspire people's thinking and satisfy their thirst for knowledge. Generally, the tour guide adopts the method of self-questioning and answering or tourists asking and answering the tour guide.

2. Brief description or detailed description. A brief description is a brief summary; while a detailed description must be detailed and make a specific and complete introduction without omissions. In situations where the landscape is highly concentrated, tour guides should be selected or used alternately according to different service objects and different situations at the time.

3. Create suspense. That is to say, some suspense can be created during the explanation to make tourists have a desire for knowledge and novelty, thereby increasing fun and enhancing the sightseeing effect.

For example, when visiting the "Lake Center Pavilion" in West Lake, Hangzhou, which is the only existing pavilion-type building in Hangzhou, the tour guide may ask: "Where is the smallest pavilion?" Tourists must be eager to think about it. If you know, the tour guide can suggest that you go to Liuyi Spring at the southwest foot of Gushan to find the answer. Tourists will definitely be in high spirits when visiting Gushan.

4. Scenario blending method, also known as the introduction of artistic conception method. After the tour guide takes the tourists to the scenic spots, they should make the scenery they see and the explanations they hear integrated into each other, so as to achieve the state of blending the scenes of "seeing the scenery and feeling the scenery".

5. Allusions and stories. For example, we will explain the "Luxue Hall" in the Lion Forest in Suzhou and clearly explain the allusions of the "Luxue" inscription.

According to the "History of the Song Dynasty·Yang Shizhuan": "I saw Cheng Yi in Luo when Shi Gai was forty years old. One day I saw Yi Ou sitting in silence. I was waiting with You Yi to stand there and couldn't leave. Yi Ji Party, the snow outside the door is a foot deep. This is the origin of the allusion "Cheng Men Li Xue", which was cited by later generations as a way to respect teachers.