Day 2 of the “2020 INTERNATIONAL TOURIST GUIDE DAY” celebrations were to acknowledge guides and their achievements.
Twenty Tourist guides from Western Cape, Eastern Cape and Gauteng receiving their Mandarin language training certificates.
“The Department of Tourism has over the last 3 years trained 110 new entrants and up-skilled more than 140 existing guides in a number of areas,” said National Registrar of Tourist Guides, Morongoe Ramphele.
The focus on day two was on sharing tourist guides’ success story, tourism safety and handover of certificates to the Mandarin language learners.
Language barriers, one of the issues which the tourism industry guides experience daily. The initiated programme was implemented to mend these issues.
“The numbers of registered tourist guides has grown steadily over the years with now more than 13 000 tourist guides registered on the database.” National Registrar of Tourist Guides, Morongoe Ramphele.
“Your role as the main link between the visitor and destination, can be the most valuable part of the whole marketing mix of the destination,” said Constitution Hill CEO, Dawn Robertson.
Day 2 ended with a tour around constitution hill to educate guides and those attending the event about the events which shaped South Africa’s implemantation of human rights laws.
