American tour guides

To be a tour guide in the United States, you need to meet the following requirements:

Obtain a foreign language tour guide certificate. The foreign language tour guide certificate is divided into two parts: written test and oral test. The contents of the written test are all in Chinese, and the oral test part is the language of the corresponding country. If you have never taken a foreign language tour guide certificate, it is suggested that you can apply for the corresponding training class.

Obtain the corresponding grade certificate issued by the national license issuing agency or internationally certified for the language proficiency test of the corresponding language in the destination country (region) of outbound tourism. To go to the United States, you should ask for a TOEFL certificate and take the TOEFL test.

According to the regulations of the state, you still need experience. Meet one of the following circumstances: (1) More than two years of travel agency business experience; (2) More than two years of travel agency management experience; (3) More than two years experience as a tour guide.

To the corresponding national institutions for the record.

The latest situation is that you need a tour guide card, and this situation will change soon.

American tour guide card

For a long time, the United States has not implemented a nationwide practice access system for the tour guide industry, which has led to the uneven quality of ground-based tour guides, which has also brought quality hidden dangers to the large-scale reception of China tourists, but this situation will soon change.

According to Jim Redkup, chairman of American Tourist Association (NTA), who recently visited Shanghai, at the media meeting held in Shanghai, NTA is actively discussing the qualification system of tour guides to ensure the quality of service to tourists.

Red Cooper said that the American Tourist Association is an important national non-governmental industry organization in the United States, with more than 2,100 members, including airlines, hotels, car rental companies, shopping centers, travel agencies and other tourism-related enterprises. In 2010, President Obama signed the Tourism Promotion Law, and in January this year, he signed an executive decree, announcing a more open visa policy for tourists from China and Brazil, which led to a substantial increase in China tourists visiting the United States. Therefore, it is necessary to implement the tourist guide card system to improve the ground connection service for China tourists.

He further revealed that at present, the American Tourism Association has set up an action group to conduct preliminary research on how to implement this tourist guide card system, including its content, procedures, training and education, and so on.

In December 2007, after China and the United States signed a memorandum of understanding to facilitate China tourism teams to travel to the United States, the door for China citizens to travel to the United States was officially opened, and there are more and more tourists visiting the United States and China. Red Cooper, who also runs a tourism company in Hawaii, said that his intuition told him that China people are now visiting the United States more and more. Take Hawaii as an example, the number of visitors to China in Hawaii was more than 30,000 the year before last, and more than 60,000 last year. According to the momentum in the first quarter of this year, it will reach at least 90,000 in 2012. "The problem now is that there are not enough seats for flights to the United States." Therefore, it is very important to provide professional ground connection service for China tourists.

According to reports, according to the agreement reached between China National Tourism Administration and the US Department of Commerce, the American Tourism Association is responsible for supervising the reception quality of China tourists. At present, the American Tourism Association has provided the China National Tourism Administration with a list of 138 American travel agencies that are certified and qualified to receive tourists from China, and published them on relevant websites of the two countries.

People in the Shanghai industry pointed out that last year, the number of tourists from China to the United States reached 1.089 million, up 36% year-on-year, and it is expected to reach 2 million this year. This huge increase is undoubtedly a huge business opportunity for American businessmen, but if the phenomenon of "being able to speak Chinese can take the tour group" continues, it will undoubtedly harm the interests of China tourists. Therefore, it is welcome that the United States can introduce the tourist guide card system.

In addition, the United States has not had a national tourism promotion agency for many years. After the promulgation of the Tourism Promotion Law in 2010, a national non-profit tourism promotion agency-"Brand USA" has been set up through the grant of the US government and the sponsorship of private institutions, which is responsible for promoting American tourism all over the world. Paul Celula, chief business development officer of Brand America who came to Shanghai together, said that in the next few months, they will set up an official representative office or agency in Beijing or Shanghai to promote American tourism in China.