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Name: Guide to Linguistic Competence for Tourist Guides and Tour Leaders

The main aim of the project is raising the indicator of employability among tourist guides and improving their vocational competences. This shall be done by means of improving their language skills through providing m-learning language courses tailored to their professional needs. The courses are available in the following languages: English, German and Spanish. The project responds to the need of fostering the provision and the assessment of key-competences, including basic skills and transversal skills, mostly entrepreneurial, linguistic and digital skills.

The language modules (containing vocabulary and grammar exercises) are focused on the following semantic areas:

  • Welcoming of foreign tourists (reception, self-presentation, presentation of general rules);
  • Accommodation ( description, recommendations of different options, assistance);
  • Tour and Activity Plan ( schedule of visits, presentation of the following steps, Trip Rules);
  • Regional tourist attractions - geography
  • Regional tourist attractions – traditions and gastronomy
  • Regional tourist attractions – history
  • Presenting a city ( architecture, historical facts and legends, main attractions, important locations);
  • Presentations of specific landmarks (e.g. monuments, castles, temples, natural objects and the like).
  • Negotiations and complaints
  • Unexpected situations (e.g. theft, accident, problems/conflicts between group members, delay)
 
  • Specialized short language courses (English, German and Spanish language) tailored specifically to the needs of tourist guides. The courses are divided into 10 thematic areas related to the tourist guides' work.
  • A Guide with good practices and examples when dealing with foreign tourists - catalogue with 60 stories describing different aspects from the tourist guide’s job – proper and improper reactions in different situations; dealing with problems; cultural and social specifics of different nations and countries with which every professional tourist guide should be familiar
  • Mobile learning content delivery space where the language courses will be implemented, allowing the users to develop their vocational skills in terms of foreign languages.
 

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Number: 2014-1-PL01-KA202-003400

Programme: ERASMUS+; KA2-Cooperation for innovation and the exchange of good practices; Strategic Partnerships for Vocational Education and Training

Duration: 01.09.2014 - 31.08.2016Partners: KNOW AND CAN ASSOCIATION – Bulgaria, Danmar Computers – Poland, iberika education group gGmbH – Germany, Sea Teach S.L. – Spain, YouNet – Italy, Giresun Educators’ Association: GED - Turkey

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Website: http://www.golic.eu/en/

 

The current stage of the development of GOLIC GUIDE Project

golic.logoThe current stage of the development of GOLIC GUIDE Project - Guide to linguistic competence for tourist guides and tour leaders (2014-1-PL01-KA202-003400) has come to a successful end. The organisations from the five partner countries worked hard in order to develop and adapt attractive Guide with good practices and examples when dealing with foreign tourists. The Guide contains 60 good practices and examples (12 for each partner country) describing different aspects from the tourist guide’s job – proper and improper reactions in different situations; dealing with problems; improving the service; etc.  The collection also presents various cultural and social specifics of different nations and countries with which every professional tourist guide should be familiar.

Newsletter III - Golic Guide

golic.logoNewsletter III
The 3rd partnership meeting

We are happy to inform you that the third international partnership meeting took place in Berlin, on 8th and 9th October, this year. The meeting was attended by 16 representatives from all partner organizations.
What did we do?

One of the main objectives of the meeting was to establish a clear division of tasks in the further process of creating content for language courses for tourist guides. Partners agreed on the details of the structure of the modules and types of exercises. Because of different subjects of the modules, the structure may slightly differ but there will be always 5 common elements: audio recording/audio scripts, a listening task, vocabulary exercises, grammar exercises, a pronunciation exercise. More details can be found in “GOLIC modules” section.

Newsletter II

golic.logoIn this Newsletter we have two very good pieces of news: the GOLIC GUIDE national research has officially been concluded and the second GOLIC GUIDE meeting between partners, held in Mallorca 6-7.05.2015 was a great success. Many crucial steps have been made towards making GOLIC GUIDE the language app a reality.

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Comprehensive summary of GOLIC GUIDE research results

golic.logoResearch phase conducted in the framework of Golic Guide project took place simultaneously in Poland, Italy, Bulgaria, Turkey and Spain, from December 2014 to mid-March 2015. The filed study involved 66 men and 85 women representing the tour/tourist guide profession, who were the respondents of the questionnaire, and moreover the stakeholders (five from each country) who went through interviews.

Summary of the results from all countries shows many common views and opinions on the situation concerning the need to improve language qualifications among the target group. Main findings:

In the beginning of May 2015 in Mallorca (Spain) was held the second partners meeting in the frame of GOLIC Guide project.

golic.logoIn the beginning of May 2015 in Mallorca (Spain) was held the second partners meeting in the frame of GOLIC Guide project. Three representatives of Know and Can Association attended the event. All the partners presented and discussed the result of the research conducted in their countries. The future project activities were planned and the distribution of tasks as well.

We are pleased to inform you that the research under the project GOLIC GUIDE

golic.logoWe are pleased to inform you that the research under the project GOLIC GUIDE - Guide to linguistic competence for tourist guides and tour leaders (2014-1-PL01-KA202-003400) was successfully implemented!

The research was conducted simultaneously in 6 European countries (Bulgaria, Poland, Spain, Gemany, Italy and Turkey) and its aims were:

GOLIC GUIDE - Guide to Linguistic Competence for Tourist Guides and Tour Leaders

golic.logoGOLIC GUIDE project (2014-1-PL01-KA202-003400) is funded by Key Action 2 “Cooperation for Innovation and the Exchange of Good Practices”, Sub-Action “Strategic Partnerships for Vocational Education and Training” of the Erasmus + programme.  The duration of the project is 2 years and it is aimed at the delivery of training in foreign languages for tourism professionals, especially tourist guides.