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This paper presents general concepts of the tour guide and some characteristics on tourism interpretation. The tour guide, combining the tour(the business) with the guide(the activity), is a compound term designating a person who leads the tourists in tourism business. As the volume of tourists is increasing, and the impact of tourism on society is becoming greater, the role of the tour guide gets highlighted of which the service quality is measured by the linguistic performance.
Therefore it is time to reevaluate the role of the tour guide from the linguistic paradigm. From the interpretation perspective, the direct communication with the foreign tourists differentiates the tourism interpretation from other types of interpretation, but assuming the extended model of the triadic communication with the destination a party, tourism interpretation is a part of interpretation. Then tourism interpreter is a person performing the guiding activity with a high level of the linguistic competence and performance. This paper takes the Cohen's model of the guide roles as its base and studies the mediating role of guides especially at the Kyungbokgung palace. With
consideration of guide's communicative role at the heritage interpretation, the tour guide becomes the tourism interpreter, a new professional with communicative competence as well as tourism knowledge.