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A tour guide (or tourist guide) provides assistance, information and cultural, historical and contemporary heritage interpretation to people on organized tours, individual clients, educational establishments, at religious and historical sites, museums, and at venues of other significant interest. They (normally) have a recognized national or regional tourist guide qualification.
The CEN (European Committee for Standardization) definition for "tourist guide" (part of the work by CEN on definitions for terminology within the tourism industry) is:
CEN also produced a definition for "tour manager":
In Europe, tourist guides (tour guide being initially a term primarily used in the US market) are represented by FEG, the European Federation of Tourist Guide Associations and world wide by WFTGA.
The tourist guiding qualification is specific to each and every country; in some cases the qualification is national, in some cases it is broken up into regions. In all cases it is embedded in the educational and training ethic of that country. The Art of Guiding is a skill; it is the skill of selecting information and varying it for different audiences; it is the skill of presenting it in a simple and precise way; it is the skill of allowing the visitor to see and to understand; it is a skill which, if well performed, is invisible.
Actors: Rob Corddry (actor), Billy Crystal (actor), Chris Cooper (actor), Jack Black (actor), Bill Barretta (actor), Alan Arkin (actor), Bill Cobbs (actor), Bill Barretta (actor), Bill Barretta (actor), Bill Barretta (actor), Bill Barretta (actor), Bill Barretta (actor), Bill Barretta (actor), Zach Galifianakis (actor), Bill Barretta (actor),
Plot: When 3 Muppet fans learn that Tex Richman wants to drill under the Muppet Theater for oil, Gary, Mary and Walter set out to find the Muppets who have been split up for years so that they can put on one last show and save the Muppet Theater. 'Kermit the Frog' (qv) now lives in his own mansion depressed in Hollywood, 'The Great Gonzo' is a high class plumber at Gonzo's Royal Flush, 'Fozzie Bear' (qv) performs with a tribute band called The Moopets, 'Miss Piggy' (qv) is the plus-size fashion editor at Vogue Paris, and Animal is at a celebrity anger management rehab center in Santa Barbara.
Keywords: based-on-tv-series, bel-air, brother-brother-relationship, bus, comeback, electric-fence, evil-laughter, fencing, hdtv, henchmanActors: Steve Joberns (miscellaneous crew), Steve Joberns (miscellaneous crew), Jessica Drake (miscellaneous crew), Charles Martin Smith (director), Charles Martin Smith (writer), Jill McCullough (miscellaneous crew), Brenda Fricker (actress), Billy Boyd (actor), Charles Martin Smith (producer), Mychael Danna (composer), Ron Donachie (actor), Peter Mullan (actor), Robert Carlyle (actor), Caroline Sax (miscellaneous crew), William Vince (producer),
Plot: The Stone of Destiny retells the fascinating and true story of four young Glaswegian students who, in 1951, outwitted the British authorities in their successful attempt to take back the Stone of Scone - a beloved symbol of Scottish pride, back to its country of origin.
Keywords: 1950s, arrest, bar, based-on-true-story, breaking-and-entering, burglar, burglary, car, celebration, christmas-eveActors: Dirk Yates (producer), Dan Cross (producer), Rod Barry (actor), Andrew Rosen (editor), Owen Hawk (actor), Dan Cross (director), J.D. Slater (composer), Dan Cross (writer), Brent Everett (actor), Jeremy Jordan (actor), Jason Hawke (actor), Andrew Addams (actor), Marshall O'Boy (miscellaneous crew), Todd Alan (miscellaneous crew), Tommy Deluca (actor),
Genres: Adult,Actors: Jomari Yllana (actor), Rudy Fernandez (actor), Jeffrey Cantuba (miscellaneous crew), Armando Lao (writer), Danny Gloria (editor), Mhalouh Crisologo (producer), Tirso Cruz III (actor), Jess Navarro (editor), Ara Mina (actress), Mhalouh Crisologo (actress), Rio Locsin (actress), Jess Evardone (actor), Gigette Reyes (actress), Dimples Romana (actress), Christian Vasquez (actor),
Genres: Romance,Actors: Vincent Gillioz (composer), Alan Pietruszewski (actor), Maxime Brulein (writer), Maxime Brulein (director), Maxime Brulein (producer), Mark N. Thomas (costume designer), Mark N. Thomas (producer), Kory Alden (actor), Elender Wall (actress), Paula Maxwell (actress), Teri Gamble (actress), Dianne Lonnie Benedict (actress), Rhett Damon (actor), Susie Heintzman (actress), Dana Benedict (actress),
Genres: Mystery, Short,Actors: Victor Argo (actor), Joe Grifasi (actor), Amos Kollek (producer), Larry Pine (actor), Mark Margolis (actor), Amos Kollek (writer), Irma St. Paule (actress), Amos Kollek (director), Austin Pendleton (actor), Jordan Charney (actor), Louise Lasser (actress), Joey Dedio (actor), Jordan Brendan Finnegan (miscellaneous crew), Rizwan Manji (actor), Alexander von Roon (actor),
Plot: 24 year old Queenie prefers the slums of the East Village in Manhattan to her parents multi-million dollar estate in Westchester. A wacky character who plays pranks on everyone, Queenie works as a social worker with kids while unsuccessfully pursuing an acting career in New York. Horace is a middle-aged ex-cop who lives by himself in the same neighborhood. Having been diagnosed by his doctor as terminal with only a few months to live, Horace starts going to a shrink and tries to find meaning to his life, at which point he meets Queenie, who takes him on a whirlwind of a ride, before they finally, truly find one another. Horace's milieu also includes Martha and Spencer, a married couple of ex-gangsters now living a mundane life supplementing their income by throwing occasional S&M; orgies for a few dollars. Queenie's crowd includes Skip, her fiancé, an ambitious Wall Street broker, and her best friend, Tzocki, who is about to be married.
Keywords: character-name-in-title, dominatrix, independent-film, love, new-yorkActors: June Lockhart (actress), Mick Garris (writer), Frank Marshall (miscellaneous crew), Steven Spielberg (writer), Bob Balaban (director), Steven Spielberg (miscellaneous crew), John Addison (composer), Kathleen Kennedy (miscellaneous crew), Georges Delerue (composer), Angelo Rossitto (actor), Milton Berle (actor), Debbie Lee Carrington (actress), Joshua Brand (miscellaneous crew), Peter Kwong (actor), Joshua Brand (producer),
Genres: Comedy, Drama, Fantasy,Actors: Jon Peters (producer), Howard Rosenman (producer), Harvey Parry (actor), Sue Casey (actress), Brent Musburger (actor), Barbra Streisand (actress), Ryan O'Neal (actor), Richard Lawson (actor), Ernie Hudson (actor), Len Lesser (actor), Art Evans (actor), Earl Boen (actor), James Gregory (actor), Ruth Myers (costume designer), Barbra Streisand (producer),
Plot: Hillary Kramer, successful Perfume magnate awakes one morning to find that her accountant has robbed her blind and left for South America. Going through all of her remaining assets she finds a boxer, purchased as a tax write off. She decides to take Kid Natural, (Eddie Scanlon) who is much more at home giving driving lessons, into the ring and use him as her key to riches. Eddie thinks this will only get him killed and resists.
Keywords: accountant, bankruptcy, bare-chested-male, boxer, boxing, boxing-promoter, boxing-ring, boyfriend-girlfriend-relationship, career, career-womanActors: John Ashley (actor), James H. Nicholson (producer), Vincent Price (actor), Dorothy Malone (actress), Les Baxter (composer), Samuel Z. Arkoff (producer), Annette Funicello (actress), Andy Romano (actor), Robert Cummings (actor), Frankie Avalon (actor), Morey Amsterdam (actor), William Asher (director), Harvey Lembeck (actor), Lou Rusoff (producer), Lou Rusoff (writer),
Plot: The first of the five official American-International "Beach Party" movies. Anthropology Professor Robert Orwell Sutwell and his secretary Marianne are studying the sex habits of teenagers. The surfing teens led by Frankie and Dee Dee don't have much sex but they sing, battle the motorcycle rats and mice led by Eric Von Zipper and dance to Dick Dale and the Del Tones. Look for Big Daddy's surprise cameo.
Keywords: 1960s, actor-shares-first-name-with-character, anthropologist, army-pilot, b-movie, beach, beach-blanket, beach-bunny, beach-party, beatnikActors: Natalie Kalmus (miscellaneous crew), John Carroll (actor), Cliff Edwards (actor), Fritz Feld (actor), Dick Foran (actor), Kirby Grant (actor), Creighton Hale (actor), Gordon Hart (actor), Halliwell Hobbes (actor), Kenner G. Kemp (actor), Knox Manning (actor), Dennis Morgan (actor), George O'Hanlon (actor), Paul Panzer (actor), Glenn Strange (actor),
Plot: Two tour guides take visitors around Warner Bros. showing them scenes of films allegedly in the making but which actually consist of archive footage from previously released Technicolor Warner Bros. short subjects.
Keywords: actor, behind-the-scenes, film-actress, hollywood, musical-acts, tour-guide