This workshop explores more sustainable guiding skills by introducing philosophical practice into tourist guiding. It combines lecture and practice, drawing on the speaker’s research and field experience, and incorporates classroom-based exercises designed for practical application. This is not a theoretical or abstract justification of sustainability; rather, it is an experimental attempt to integrate philosophical practice directly into guiding practice. This approach aims not only to promote sustainability in an ethical sense but also to support the vocational sustainability of tourist guiding in the technological age by fostering humane communication and reflective dialogue within the tour experience.
The first half introduces philosophical practice, which is a communicative method developed for non-specialists, and examines how its key elements can be incorporated into the guide’s narrative, itinerary design, and mediation roles. It argues that applying this framework can deepen these functions by cultivating skills of meaningful questioning, slow reflection, and perspective shifting.
The second half offers an experiential classroom activity through a small philosophical experiment in reflective communication, allowing participants to explore how philosophical skills can be integrated into guiding interactions. Through this experiment, they gain practical insights into how such skills can enrich guiding and how they may be cultivated in professional practice.