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Role of guide Reconceptualising Interpretation The Role of Tour Guides in Authentic Tourism Yvette Reisinger School of Hospitality and Tourism Management Florida International University N E st Street HM North Miami Florida USA Carol Steiner Jitter Philos

Reconceptualising Interpretation The Role of Tour Guides in Authentic Tourism Yvette Reisinger School of Hospitality and Tourism Management Florida International University N E st Street HM North Miami Florida USA Carol Steiner Jitter Philosophical Services Nolan Street Sarina Queensland Australia The aim of this paper is to reconceptualise interpretation as one of the major f unctions of a tour guide The paper is based on the philosophy of Martin Heidegger It suggests that tour guides in their current incarnation might be largely super u ous in authentic tourism The reconceptualisation of interpretation by adopting Heidegg er s philosophy promises to enhance the role of tour guides in authentic tourism and enrich the tourism experiences Special attention is paid to unusual tour guides workin g in Israel doi cit Keywords interpretation tour guides authentic tourism Introduction Authentic tourism has fascinated tourism scholars for several decades Arsenault Berger Berman Brown Crang Dann Handler Hughes Laenen McIntosh Prentice Pons Ryan Turner Manning Venkatesh Wang Authentic tourism refers not to consumption of the real or genuine Reisinger Steiner but rather to individual and personal tourist experi ences that contribute to one s sense of identity and connectedness with the world Steiner Reisinger The authors suggest that the individual and personal dimension of authentic tourism should extend to people making up their own minds about how they experience and interpret the toured world Of course this could mean that tour guides in their current incarnation might be largely super uous in authentic tourism But it might be a worthwhile philosophical exercise to examine what tour guides do see what that tells us about the concepts of meaning-making and interpretation and perhaps recast their role to ?nd a place for them in authen tic tourism drawing on an Israeli model Finding a role for tour guides in authentic tourism calls for a rethink of what tour guides most commonly do It also calls for a reconceptualisation of interpr etation as a tour guide responsibility The reconceptualisation the authors - - ? Y Reisinger C Steiner Current Issues in Tourism Vol No C CCurrent Issues in Tourism o ?er is based on the philosophy of Martin Heidegger who has quite unusual ideas about how people as human beings understand and interpret experience This philosophical paper will ?rst outline the roles and responsibilities of tour guides as re ected in tourism literature Next it will explore convention al ideas about meaning- making and interpretation as they relate to the work of tour guides Then it will outline Heidegger s concepts of understanding and interpretation Finally it will make some preliminary suggestions on how a reconceptualisation of interpretation might a ?ect the role of tour guides with special attention paid to unusual tour guides working in Israel The Role of Tour Guides Tour guides have been described as information givers sources of knowledge mentors surrogate parents path ?nders leaders mediators culture brokers and entertainers Cohen DeKadt McKean Nettekoven Schuchat Pond says tour guides help tourists to understand the places