#WAST Guide

Aims of the tool

The #WAST Guide aims to develop and reinforce tourism-related skills and the capacity of young women tourist guides to design and implement thematic alternative and sustainable tours. The Guide is based on a more interactive and practical approach than a theoretical one, on b-learning and employs both formal and non-formal education- NFE- methodologies. The #WAST guide includes learning topics and material that usually are not provided by Tourism Departments in tertiary education.

Description of the tool

The #WAST Guide includes the learning topics and material that usually are not provided by Tourism Departments in tertiary education. All modules were designed to be appropriate for future and present tourist guides. Additionally, some of the modules include more general information, suitable for artists who would like to learn more about the tourism sector to gain skills for promoting alternative tourism through various methods.
The #WAST Guide consists of 8 modules:
1. Creating thematic tours
2. Alternative and sustainable tours
3. Accessible tourism
4. Storytelling and vocal pedagogy
5. Gamification in tourism
6. Approach to the tourist
7. Rhetoric and public speaking
8. Marketing strategies.

The #WAST Guide offers an array of topics, so it can be used in different contexts in order to enhance one’s understanding and knowledge of topics related tourism, cultural heritage, public speaking skills, marketing strategies, gamification and more.
The #WAST Guide is embedded to the project website in order to be linked to other project results, that is, Digital Alternative Resource Map and Online Space Community. The attached document includes the theoretical and practical part of all the modules in EN. The Guide is available as blended learning material in EN, GR, PL, IT, UKR and also it is accessible for deaf and blind people. The full course in its original, interactive format is available on the project website: https://www.wastcommunity.eu/guide-2/