Saturday, August 28, 2010

What should Nepalese tourists guide have to do to attract foreign tourists towards Nepal

A person who guides visitors in the language of their choice and interprets the cultural & natural heritage of an area, which person normally possesses an area-specific qualification usually issued and/or recognized by the appropriate authority is called tourist guide.
A tour guide(or tourist guide)provides assistance, information and cultural, historical and contemporary heritage interpretation to people on organized tours, individual clients, educational establishments, at religious and historical sites, museums, and at venues of other significant interest.

The tourist guiding qualification is specific to each and every country. In some cases the qualification is national, in some cases it is broken up into regions. In all cases it is embedded in the educational and training ethic of that country. The Art of Guiding is a skill. It is the skill of selecting information and varying it for different audiences. It is the skill of presenting it in a simple and precise way. It is the skill of allowing the visitor to see and to understand. It is a skill which, if well performed, is invisible.

Tourist guide should be experienced as a guide.As other countries in the world,the main work of Nepalese tourist guide is to make the trip of foreign visitors enjoyable.Nepalese tourist guide should show many important places & things to foreign tourists.They(Nepalese tourist guide) should explain historical,cultural & geographical places of Nepal to them(foreign tourist).
They should satisfy them.They should not convey any wrong information about Nepal & Nepalese people.They should explain about Nepalese arts,culture,languages,fashions,architecture,etc. to them.They should bring them to beautiful places of Nepal such as gorkha,Ilam,pokhara,patan ,bandipur,kathmandu,lumbini,bhaktapur & other places.They should request the local people of Nepal to explain their culture & tradition among foreign tourists.They also describe them about temples,historical building,arts & architecture of bhaktapur & kathmandu.They should have good knowledge of languages such as english,french,japanese,italian,portugese,hindi in addition to their mother tongue,Nepali so that they can easily know what tourists is saying.
Just to show places & things is not only the task of tourist guide.They should have to manage medicine,transportation,camping,hotel booking,etc.They should have to deal with various problems & difficult situation that can arise during a tour such as mistakes in hotel booking,lost passport,illness ,theft,pickpocketing,etc.They should have to make them sure for sense of security.They should manage all the equipment needed for treeking.Sometimes they should lead them to mountain sides,national parks for elephant riding,rivers for rafting.They should have good relationship with tourists so that they can easily fascinated them.
They should have encourage them to visit Nepal regularly.If tourists become happy with tourists guides,tourists give some dollar as reward to tourists guides.If their would be increase in number of tourists visiting Nepal,Nepal have got more foreign currency from foreign tourists.As a result,here's economy will be developed.Since then ,our country will also developed.With this impressive work of Nepalese tourists guides ,more foreign tourists attract towards Nepal.

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