Profession of a tour guide is facing the big challenge of how to provide the services in the times when people do not want and cannot travel. Take advantage of modern technology and share your knowledge and passion also in the times when travelling is restricted. Invest in your future by learning a new ways to share what you know and love with even wider audience than before and at the same time help your country and destination in times of crisis with being an advocate for it.
BECOME A CERTIFIED VIRTUAL GUIDE
and offer your services to the whole world, regardless of their location and ability to travel by becoming virtual tour guide.
COURSE IN A NUTSHELL
IN THIS LIVE CLASS COURSE YOU WILL LEARN:
- how to prepare the content for virtual tours
- how are virtual tours different from face-to-face guided tours
- where and how you can do virtual guided tours
- how to sell virtual tours online
- what technology you can use to guide virtual tours
- storytelling for virtual tour guides
THIS COURSE IS FOR YOU IF YOU WANT TO:
- guide tours online
- create virtual experiences for guests all around the world
- promote your destinations online
- support sustainable tourism and have more virtual tourists
- make your tours accessible to everyone
THE COURSE INCLUDES:
- 10 academic hours of live classes with trainers (2 x 5 consecutive days)
- transformative learning experience
- access to ask questions to your 2 trainers during the duration of this course
- certificate of completition
WHEN ARE LIVE CLASSES SCHEDULED?
- MONDAY Septemebr 21st to FRIDAY September 25th, 2020 from 6.00pm to 7.30pm CEST
REQUIREMENTS:
- Any kind of camera that can shoot video. It doesn't matter what. And you'll need a microphone.
- A computer or laptop for video editing. It can't be really old, but also doesn't need to be fancy and expensive.
- Hopefully you have a desire to captivate an audience with your video storytelling skills.
- You should be able to use a PC or Apple Mac at a basic level.
- You do need a good internet to be able to enjoy all the content of the course fully.
* You don't have to be a licensed tour guide to join this course and obtain the virtual tour guide certificate.
**Please note that this is a live class course and you will get an invite to join the virtual classroom.
*** Please note, that virtual tourism in not the same as virtual reality tourism.
COURSE CURRICULUM
This is a live class course of 10 academic hours in total with 2 trainers leading the course and providing guidance to the students. The course content is devided in 5 modules, where students master the art of becoming virtual tour guides with theoretical and practical knowledge being thought at the same time in proportion 60% theory and 40% practikum (the proportion recommended also by World Federation of tourist guides associations – WFTGA).
MODULE 1: VIRTUAL TOURISM AND STORYTELLING IN VIRTUAL ENVIRONMENT
WHAT WILL YOU LEARN IN THIS MODULE?
- what is virtual experiences economy
- how to create engaging story for virtual tours
- how is virtual storytelling different from live engagement on your tours
- dos and don'ts in virtual storytelling
- case studies of leaders in virtual experiences economy in tourism industry and what we can learn from them
- how can virtual experiences economy be used by tour guides to accelerate their business
DELIVERY AND DURATION OF THIS MODULE:
- 2 academic hours
- live class course with trainers
MODULE 2: START GUIDING YOUR VIRTUAL TOURS TODAY
WHAT WILL YOU LEARN?
- which virtual experiences are already available
- how we can use them to guide our virtual tours
- what modern technology is available to help us start with guided tours
- free tools to start guided tours right now
- how can we transfer real life experience to virtual guided tour
DELIVERY AND DURATION :
- 2 academic hours
- this module is delivered as live class course with trainers
MODULE 3: CREATING YOUR OWN VIRTUAL EXPERIENCES
WHAT WILL YOU LEARN?
- How to create your own virtual experiences
- publishing your virtual tours online
- video basics (filming, editing...)
- live streming from your destination
- do's and don'ts when creating your virtual experience
DELIVERY AND DURATION:
- 2 academic hours
- this is live class course with trainers
MODULE 4: SUSTAINABILITY AND MARKETING IN VIRTUAL EXPERIENCES ECONOMY
WHAT WILL YOU LEARN:
- how you can support sustainable development and responsible tourism with virtual tours
- how you can contribute to achieve UN Sustainable Development Goals with virtual tours
- marketing in virtual experiences economy
- online marketing basics
- where can you sell your tours online
DELIVERY AND DURATION:
- 2 academic hours
- this is live class course with trainers
MODULE 5: PRAKTIKUM
WHAT WILL YOU LEARN:
- you will be working actively on your virtual tour with your trainer and peers
- with engaging excercises you will put all the knowledge from the course in practice to get your virtual tour up and going
- you will get and give valuable feedback on virtual tours created during the course
DELIVERY AND DURATION:
- 2 academic hours
- this is live class course with trainers
FINAL EXAM
At the end of this course you will take a written exam, where you will demonstrate your knowledge and ability to create and guide your own virtual tours as a virtual tour guide.
Upon successful completition, each participant becomes a certified virtual tour guide and receive their own certificate of completition.
DELIVERY AND DURATION:
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