Tour Guide (China) study plan

Map the exam blueprint for Domains 1 and 2 into a one-page checklist of every regulation and ethics topic you must be able to recall cold, weighting the 30% combined share.

Summarize the Tour Guide Regulations and Travel Agency Regulations article by article in your own words, listing duties, prohibitions, licensing steps and penalty ranges for each.

Explain the core obligations of the Tourism Law (contract terms, mandatory insurance, tourist rights, prohibited forced shopping) and distinguish them from consumer-protection rules on refunds and unfair standard clauses.

Draft five ethics scenarios (tipping, commission shopping, itinerary substitution, tourist confidentiality, conflicts of interest) and write the defensible professional response for each.

Build a personal glossary of 40 Chinese regulatory terms with plain-language definitions you can use in commentary.

Classify China's major landform regions, climate zones and river systems, and match each World Heritage natural site to its province and defining geological feature.

Compare the architectural grammar of imperial, religious, vernacular and garden traditions, noting roof types, bracket sets, axis layout and feng shui principles.

Interpret a museum object using the four-step method (identification, material and technique, function and context, cultural significance) applied to five artifact categories.

Produce a spoken three-minute commentary for one scenic site and one garden, each citing at least three verifiable facts.

Self-quiz on 60 geography and heritage items until you can place each in the correct province without notes.

Construct a timeline of Chinese dynasties with founding and ending years, capitals and one defining achievement per dynasty, memorized to the point of recitation.

Explain the causes and consequences of six turning-point events (for example unification under Qin, Tang cosmopolitanism, Song commercial revolution, Ming maritime voyages, late-Qing reform, 1911 Revolution) in causal chains rather than dates alone.

Compare Confucianism, Daoism and Buddhism on core concepts, ethics, ritual practice and influence on social customs, and note where they overlap.

Describe festival cycles, kinship terms, table etiquette and auspicious symbolism well enough to answer a tourist's why-question in under 90 seconds.

Rehearse two cross-cultural explanations that correct common misconceptions about Chinese religion and custom without oversimplifying.

Sequence a full group tour operation from enquiry to post-tour follow-up, naming the document and responsible party at each handoff.

Compare transport modes and ticketing rules (rail real-name booking, air change and refund windows, coach charter compliance) and calculate two sample cost sheets for a five-day itinerary.

Explain accommodation categories, rooming-list management and the guide's role in check-in, incident logging and billing disputes.

Summarize China's administrative hierarchy, ethnic-group framework and demographic trends, and identify the autonomous regions and their principal ethnic groups.

Draft a contingency plan for a delayed flight affecting a group of 20, including rebooking, meal and hotel obligations and communication lines.

Identify the guide's legal duties in an emergency: duty to assist, reporting chain, documentation and preservation of evidence.

Demonstrate first-aid responses for heatstroke, food poisoning, fracture, drowning, altitude sickness and cardiac arrest, including CPR compression depth and rate and AED use.

Assess risks for three itinerary types (mountain, water, urban museum) and list preventive controls for each.

Practice a group headcount and lost-tourist protocol and a missing-person escalation script.

Explain insurance coverage types and the incident-report form fields a guide must complete.

Deliver a ten-minute commentary with a clear opening hook, structured body and memorable close, timed and recorded.

Apply voice control techniques (pace, pause, volume, emphasis) and eliminate filler words from a recorded sample.

Adapt the same site commentary for three audiences (elderly leisure group, school group, foreign independent travelers) and justify the changes.

Handle five difficult-guest scenarios in role play (complaint about shopping stop, cultural misunderstanding, sensitive historical question, language barrier, group conflict) using service-recovery language.

Audit your own commentary against professional ethics standards on accuracy, cultural respect and non-commercial pressure.

Re-solve 60 mixed questions drawn from the weaker domains and log every error with its root cause (knowledge gap, misreading, or reasoning error).

Reconstruct the dynasty timeline and the three-philosophy comparison from memory and close any gaps found.

Recite the penalty ranges and licensing steps from Domain 2 without reference material.

Teach two concepts aloud to an imaginary colleague to test depth of understanding.

Rebuild your weakest flashcard set and retire only cards answered correctly three times.

Sit two full-length timed mock exams under exam conditions and score them against the domain weightings.

Deliver a final ten-minute mock commentary to a live or recorded audience and collect structured feedback.

Run a mock emergency scenario end to end, from incident recognition through reporting and documentation.

Review the entire error log and produce a final one-page revision sheet of the 30 facts most likely to be forgotten.

Plan exam-day logistics: timing per section, question-order strategy and a rest schedule for the final 48 hours.