The voice is crucial to tourist guides. How to care for it and improve its performance and effectiveness when delivering our commentaries?
The “Voice” interactive seminar will explore these important points with practical exercises. It includes voice projection, diction, microphone use and breathing techniques by following the guidelines of the European Standard EN15565:2008. The European Standard sets out the necessary training that tourist guides should follow.
More specifically, we look at how we keep our voice in healthy and optimal condition, how the voice is produced and what it involves, and how to breathe better. We will explore and practice ways of incorporating a variety to speech and narrative through enhancing volume, pace, emphasis, tone, modulation, expression, pitch and articulation.
All qualified tourist guides are eligible to attend.
Voice Seminar in 2018 in Crete, Greece © FEG by Anastasia Gaitanou
What will the course participants will gain?
- Getting an overview of how the voice is produced and how it works
- Gaining ability that will enable you to be in a position to protect and to use your basic guiding instrument, your voice
- Being able to use vocal elements for increasing the power and projection of your voice in different situations
- Finding out how to develop skills and strategies for more successful vocal communication
- Looking at correct breathing and relaxation techniques
- Understanding ways of incorporating variety to our speech and narrative by exploring ways of enhancing volume, pace, emphasis, tone, modulation, expression, pitch and articulation
Voice as part of the Art of Guiding course in 2018 in Llandudno, Wales © FEG by Mary Kemp Clarke
General Information
The programme consists of 4 hours directed learning. It covers a range of development activities, essential in any guide training programme. The skills gained are transferable to many tourist guiding situations.
Programme trainers are FEG accredited. To achieve best possible results the number of the course participants is limited.
All trainees of the “Voice” seminar will be awarded a FEG e-certificate of attendance.
The price of this course, and all other FEG courses, varies depending on cost and demand. If you are interested in one or more courses listed on our website, please get in touch with our office for more information at training@feg-touristguides.org
