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Recently, foreign Internet celebrities who have traveled to China
The fiery "city is not city" became an Internet buzzword
Thanks to the mainland's 144-hour transit visa-free policy
More and more foreign tourists are visiting China
This has led to a significant increase in the demand for foreign language tour guides
Some of these guides in foreign languages other than English are even scarcer
Travel agencies are urgently recruiting foreign language tour guides
The daily salary can reach 1,000 yuan
In the past six months, the continuous recovery of the inbound tourism market has made the shortage of tour guides in multiple languages more and more obvious. Some tour guides who had changed careers have begun to return to the front line of leading tours.
The reporter learned that the income of the tour guide is mainly determined by multiplying the daily salary of the tour by the number of days leading the group, and the contracted tour guide of the travel agency will have a small amount of basic salary. In addition, there is an occasional gratuity and service charge during the reception. In the interview, some tour guides and travel agency leaders told reporters that the daily salary of foreign language tour guides in Shanghai is relatively stable, and with the recent increase in passenger flow, the monthly income has also increased to a certain extent.
Zhou Hengyong, assistant general manager of a tourism group in Shanghai, said: "The daily salary of our group's English tour guides is about 500 yuan to 700 yuan, and the income of small language tour guides is relatively high, about 800 yuan to 1,000 yuan per day. ”
At present, many travel agencies are optimistic about the huge potential of the future inbound tourism market, and have increased business adjustment and layout. Taking a tourism company in Shanghai as an example, the company has about 100 full-time tour guides, of which about one-third are foreign-language tour guides. In order to cope with the current shortage of foreign language tour guides and adapt to new market changes, the company cooperates with the tour guide service center under the local tourism industry association on the one hand to borrow experienced tour guides to solve urgent needs; On the other hand, it has also strengthened communication with some tourism colleges to recruit and train some younger and more skilled multilingual tour guides.
Visa-free expansion of the "Circle of Friends".
The number of incoming tourists has surged
According to Xinhua News Agency, in the past six months, one after another China's inbound tourism policies and measures have been introduced. Since the mainland implemented the 72/144-hour transit visa-free policy for Norway citizens in November last year, the scope of application of the 144-hour transit visa-free policy has been expanded to 54 countries.
As the visa-free "circle of friends" continues to expand, the number of inbound tourists has surged. According to the statistics of the National Immigration Administration, in the first half of the year, there were 14.635 million foreigners entering the country's ports, a year-on-year increase of 152.7%. Among them, 8.542 million people entered the country through visa-free, accounting for 52%, a year-on-year increase of 190.1%. 686,000 port visas were issued, up 267.9% year-on-year, and 388,000 stay and residence permits were issued for foreigners in China, up 2.4% year-on-year.
More and more foreign tourists have begun to share their bits and pieces of travel to China on short videos and social platforms, and the related topics of "China Travel" can be said to be "shoot a fire one". The total number of views of videos with the hashtag "China Travel" on TikTok, the overseas version of "Douyin", exceeded 700 million. Visit Chinese cities, taste Chinese food, and experience Chinese intangible cultural heritage skills...... During the trip, foreign friends not only experienced the beautiful food and beauty of China, but also saw the warm and friendly Chinese people, and felt the modern infrastructure and rich history and culture of China. This strong sense of contrast brought about by breaking through the information cocoon makes foreign tourists curious and excited to see the real and vivid China.
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