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Assessing Tour Guides’ Self-leadership Qualities in a Developing Country
Journal of interpretation research, Vol.30(2), pp.204-221
2025
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Abstract
Tour guides play an important role serving as cultural ambassadors in the tourism industry. Self-leadership strategies can help tour guides to excel in their profession. However, little is known about the practices and competencies that tour guides implement to achieve self-leadership especially in developing countries where tour guide training programs are still emerging such as in Sri Lanka. We conducted a survey of National Tour Guides and interviews with tourism experts from the Sri Lankan Tourism Development Authority to investigate the current state of self-leadership practices relating to Behavior Awareness, Task Motivation, and Constructive Cognition. We present a theoretical framework to assess these three self-leadership strategies and specific practices relevant to this framework. Our recommendations on how to assess and enhance tour guide performance may be adapted in other cultural contexts to inform tour guide training programs.
Details
- Title
- Assessing Tour Guides’ Self-leadership Qualities in a Developing Country
- Authors/Creators
- Daminda Sumanapala - Murdoch University, AustraliaIsabelle D. Wolf - University of WollongongNilakshi Wathsal Kumari Galahitiyawe - Heriot-Watt University
- Publication Details
- Journal of interpretation research, Vol.30(2), pp.204-221
- Publisher
- SAGE Publications
- Number of pages
- 18
- Identifiers
- 991005831945307891
- Copyright
- © 2025 SAGE Publications
- Murdoch Affiliation
- Murdoch University
- Language
- English
- Resource Type
- Journal article
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