Unit+3.+Tourist+Information+services

 = Unit 3. Tourist Information service =  ====On arrival in a destination, tourists need local information. To get this, most visitors make use of tourist information centres (TICs). ==== ====These can be as simple as a kiosk set up in a village square in the high season and staffed by local people, or as complex as a city-centre office open all year, and employing twenty full-time staff or more. ==== ====Whatever their size, TICs will be located in places tourists need to go through - airports, stations, town squares, and major tourist attractions. The information on offer is usually limited to services and activities in the immediate area and covers ==== ====Tourist information can be distributed through a number of channels. ==== ====One of the most obvious is through paper based documents such as leaflets and brochures. Often the first thing visitors see on entering a TICs is the display rack that encourages visitors to browse through the information at their own pace. the other common channel is face to face, which obviously requires good interpersonal and foreigh languages skills from the tourist information officer, and a certain amount of knowledge of customer psychology. ====
 * ====tourist attractions and events, including guided tours ====
 * ====local transport ====
 * ====accommodation. ====

Essay( Questionnaire) It is not a secret, that while making up a tour we look through different sources of information to choose the most suitable and detailed.The question we are going to discuss today is the following "What channels of getting tourist information do you prefer? Which of them do you consider the most informative and useful ?"

Study the website devoted to Copenhagen

Project: "My Primorye"
Web Quest

//Literature: //
Student's book, Unit 3, pp. 23-27

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TIC ( study how TICs are used in different countries) Copenhagen website __Answer the following questions: __
 * What are the objectives of TICs?
 * <span style="color: #222222; font-family: arial,sans-serif;">What types of TICs can you define?
 * <span style="color: #222222; font-family: arial,sans-serif;">Why are TICs considered the most detailed way of informing customers?
 * <span style="color: #222222; font-family: arial,sans-serif;">What can you say about TICs (or the other ways of providing tourists with information) in Vladivostok and other cities of the Far East?
 * <span style="color: #222222; font-family: arial,sans-serif;">In case there are no TICs, how can tourists find necessary facts? (websides, call centres, helpline ect.).
 * <span style="color: #222222; font-family: arial,sans-serif;">Try to give detailed answers, organise your thoughts and findings in a logical way.