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Great tours! : thematic tours and guide training for historic sites /
"Creating tours that are interesting and educational for visitors (and guides!) is a challenge every historic site faces. Great Tours! helps you focus clearly on the material culture and significance of your site and then shows you how to use that focus to train and energize your guides. You wi...
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Walnut Creek, CA :
Altamira Press,
©2001.
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| Series: | American Association for State and Local History book series
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Table of Contents:
- pt. 1: Developing the thematic tour. Preparation: assemble the facts ; Planning: the theme development team and the roundtable workshop ; Creating: writing, revising, and testing the thematic tour outline
- pt. 2: Training guides to give thematic tours. Site specifics and historical context ; Material culture: the physical evidence ; Interpretative themes and the thematic tour ; Communication: audience and presentation techniques
- pt. 3: Managing guides effectively. Managing guides effectively.