Tour guide English

Author: Lu Zhibao
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Publish Date: 2003-06-01
Features: With the rapid, sustained, and stable development of China's national economy, China's tourism industry has achieved remarkable results. Especially with the approaching Beijing Olympics and the further development of China's reform and opening-up, the tourism industry has entered a new period of development, which has placed new and higher demands on the quality of tour guides. To adapt to the booming tourism industry and the need for tour guides to improve their skills, we have organized the writing of the "Tour Guide Foreign Language Series." The basic content of this series consists of three parts: Social and Culture, Scenic Spot Introduction, and Scenario Dialogues. The first part mainly involves China's national conditions, geography, history, culture, ethnic groups, religions, folk customs, cuisine, local products, and architecture. The second part provides introductions to key scenic spots, aiming to offer tour guides with models for foreign language tours of these sites. The third part is characterized by its practicality, featuring scenario dialogues based on key moments in the tour process, offering readers examples of standardized and excellent tour reception dialogues. This series is language-standardized and highly practical, making it suitable as a training textbook for the Tour Guide Qualification Examination, a teaching resource for foreign language instruction in tourism majors at various tourism colleges, and a leisure reading material for enthusiasts of tourism and foreign languages.