Tag Archives: Tour Guides

Commission For Tour Guides

August 26, 2010
Handicrafts shops are complaining that tour guides are charging them hefty commissions. A consultative meeting among tourism stakeholders held recently discussed various tourism issues to help the tourism sector generate 25,000 jobs and contribute 15 % to the country’s GDP by the end of 2013. The meeting addressed stakeholders’ grievances on many issues.

Driglam Namsha for Tour Guides

May 25, 2010
Guides Association of Bhutan (GAB) is working in partnership with the Tourism Council of Bhutan (TCB) to organize a 5-day training session on the Bhutanese etiquette (Driglam Namsha) for the first batch of tour guides with effect from 22nd to 26th of June 2010.

Draft Code of Conduct for Tour Guides

March 2, 2010
Bhutanese tour guides have been in the limelight recently. In a meeting on the 24th of February 2010 with the various stakeholders in the Bhutanese tourism industry,  the Prime Minister pointed out unprofessionalism and the lack of ethics among the Bhutanese tour guides. In the wake of all these unwanted attention, the Guides Association of [...]

Bhutanese Tourism and Ethics

February 28, 2010
Talk about bringing in thousands of tourists more! Do the proponents and service providers of this gargantuan leap have their ethics and etiquettes right? May be not! Not surprising then that the Prime Minister frequently inserted talks about ethics during his engagement with the tourism stakeholders on Wednesday.

Tour Guides and Ethics

February 27, 2010
You must have heard the popular anecdote of a tour guide interpreting the Mebar Tsho (the burning lake) in Bumthang as Guru Rinpoche’s swimming pool or the telling tales of the two statues at Babesa talking back-to-back? And beat this, a guide explaining to a tour about a local cuisine made of cow hide calling [...]

Tour Guides Say No To Tariff Changes

January 31, 2010
The Guides Association of Bhutan (GAB), which represents the country’s almost 1,300 guides voted against the policy to liberalize the existing US$ 200 tariff that Tourism Council of Bhutan proposed.

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