1、The cultural intercommunication in Chinese-English tourism (涉外英文导游中的文化交际涉外英文导游中的文化交际) 1. Introduction 1.1 Purposes of studying in this thesis We are living in an age of the world is becoming smaller day by day and China is opening its gate to foreign visitors more and more wide. The interdependence
2、is a trend of most countries. People from all over the world come to explore the massive changes are taking place in China. Especially after the 29th Olympic meeting was successfully held in Beijing in 2008, the developed countries have figured out that real China may not be the one in their minds e
3、ver. For that, many visitors came to China and at the same time, the intercommunication among countries inevitable occurred. Naturally, the group of local civics who first get in touch with them are tourist guides. To develop a better friendship and provide a better service for foreign visitors, we
4、should study distinguishes among cultures and differences of peoples understandings, behaviors and manners. In the daily communication, we could meet problems between the cultural gap all the time. Sometimes it makes small misunderstanding while sometimes it may lead to a serious consequence. Take a
5、 very simple example; if we meet a foreigner who came from western country, we led him to eat some delicious Peking traditional snack made of pig bowels and organs. While he was eating, he was told the materials used in the delicacy. Guess what is his reaction? People who live in western countries n
6、ever eat animals organs. If we know some of the differences, we could have avoided many of this kind of problems. 1.2 Why choose this topic Beijing has become a cosmopolitan city and we could see foreigners everywhere on the streets, in the restaurants, on the subway. Some of us may make foreign friends. While in the process of knowing each other better, as a local people or at least a Chinese, we may lead them travel around the city and introduce our culture to them. Therefore, not only to
