Tour guides contribute to Danang's tourism development
A tour guide get-together 2006 was held by the Danang Tourism Department.
More than 100 Danang's tour guides attended. The get-together was to call for tour guides' contribution to the city's tourism development. At the get-together, director of the Tourism Department Ngo Quang Vinh briefed the city's tourism situation over the past years, development orientations in the coming time and some new documents relating tour guides.
Director Vinh also talked about activities of the tour guides over the past years and hailed their great contribution to the Danang's tourism sector in general and publicity of the city's tourism image in particular. He warned some negative problems of some tour guides which affected prestige of the tourism sector.
In friendly and exciting atmosphere, tour guides contributed lots of valuable ideas to the Tourism Department. The ideas focused on strengths and weakness of the Danang's tourism sector and solutions to improve quality and lure tourists to Danang as well as contribution to the city's tourism development in the coming time. Lots of other confidential opinions on quality improvement and effective exploitation of tourism products, training and card issuance to drivers etc were also given.
In addition, tour guides suggested some problems, including health insurance, publications of standard voice-over books to new tour guides, professional libraries, courses for rare foreign languages and tour guide contests etc.
Director Vinh acknowledged these practical ideas of the tour guides and claimed telephone number of hot line and email address so that tour guides can directly report problems relating the city's tourism and their experiences. This will help the Danang's tourism sector more developing.
Source vietnamtourism.com