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| 时间：2008-10-15 09:00:42 来源：翻译网 作者： |
Qualifications for being a good guide-interpreter
Tourism is a comprehensive economic undertaking and it plays a very important
role in a country's economic construction; and it is at the same time a
part of foreign relations work, as it offers an effective means for people-to-people
diplomacy. Failure or success of tourism industry, therefore, bears on
a country's image abroad in terms of its political reputation and of the
opportunity of earning foreign exchange for a country's economic construction.
Tourism in China started from scratch, although China surpasses those countries
where tourism is well-developed in terms of resources of tourism. China's
huge amount of cultural relics, its scenery known far and wide for its
quiet beauty, the splendor of its ancients art and culture, its traditional
multi-national arts and crafts and food prepared on various local recipes-all
these have attracted foreign visitors for a long time. However, as tourism
is China has just developed, there aren't sufficent transportation and
other facilities. In addition, we still have a lot of problems to be solved
in the management of tourism, in the quality of service and in the quality
and English level of Guide-interpreters. With all these problems gradually
settled, China's tourism will surely advance to a high stage of development
along the pattern uniquely Chinese.
In fact, Guide-interpreters are in direct service of foreign visitors and
their quality and service play a decisive role in the development of tourism
industry in China. Their speech and behaviour directly influence foreign
visitor's mood in travelling. In a sense, the function of a four Guide
is similar to that of a diplomat of the people. His or her duty is to try
his or her utmost to make foreign visitors enjoy their trip in China and
at the same time let them understand China's history, geography, people's
customs and its cultural tradition better through their interpreting and
efforts. Therefore, a tour Guide's service is the key link of tourism industry.
The Guide should be the spirit of mountains and rivers, envoy of friendship,
desseminator of culture and civilization of the motherland and publicity
agent of the new idea and morale of socialism. If a tour Guide's service
is satisfactory, foreign visitors would have a good impression of China
and the Travel Agency, so that they would plan their second trip to China
for other sights and furthermore, they would urge others to come along
to see China with their own eyes. A travel Agency would, of course, employ
ad many such competent and qualified interpreters as possible so ad to
make their business thrive with each passing day.
A tour Guide should be able to act as an attendant, publicity agent, investigator
and defender while accompanying foreign visitors. So, he or she has to
have a perfect mastery of our Party's policies and political ideology,
foreign language and knowledge. He or she must be honest and upright, free
from corruption, prudent and careful in his or her work, diligent and assidious
in his or her working style. To be more specific, a Guide must keep in
mind the following fifteen Ps, three extras, four orientations, five diligences
and six important characteristics before he or she can be really called
a qualified Guide-interpreter.
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