Ngoc Anh was once an illegal logger, but he and other 250 people are making great contributions to the development of local tourism.

This is the first time a professional association of tour guides in Vietnam has released a document not only allowing its members to collect gratuities but also fixing the gratuity levels that tour guides can receive.

Tour guides are known as cultural ambassadors for their country and community in the eyes of local and foreign visitors. Whether guides can deliver quality service to tourists is not only essential to the success of their company

 VietNamNet Bridge – One of the reasons tourists return to Cu Lao Cham (Cham Islands), a group of eight small islands off Hoi An City, is its tour guides.

 VietNamNet Bridge – New rules could push thousands of freelance tourist guides out of work next year, creating a serious shortage in the industry, 

 VietNamNet Bridge – The severe shortage of qualified workers is a huge challenge to the rapidly growing tourism sector, experts warn.

 VietNamNet Bridge – Travel companies in HCMC are in dire need of tour guides who can speak Japanese and Korean fluently to serve visitors from the two northeastern Asian countries.

VietNamNet Bridge – Laborers in the hospitality sector except tour guides will be allowed to work in the ASEAN markets of their choice when the ASEAN Mutual Recognition Arrangement on Tourism Professionals takes effect.

 VietNamNet Bridge – Improving the skills of tour guides is the first and foremost step in developing Vietnam’s tourism industry sustainably, Minister of Culture, Sports and Tourism Hoang Tuan Anh has said.

 VietNamNet Bridge – Nguyen Thuy Loan from Dong Da District in Ha Noi recalled a holiday when her family joined a river tour in a western province and their guide proposed a singing game to entertain his clients.

 VietNamNet Bridge – The tourism industry in HCMC needs over 21,000 workers, especially tour guides, each year between now and 2020, said the HCMC Forecast Center of Manpower and Labor Market Information.

 A bomb attack on a tourist bus in the Sinai peninsula has killed three South Koreans and an Egyptian, officials say.

 The scarcity of Russian- and Korean-speaking tour guides is getting more severe in the near future as the number of visitors from these two markets is rising sharply, with Anh Duong Tourist Company alone saying it needs . . .

 VietNamNet Bridge – If you see little girls wandering through the Sa Pa Market with brocade bags and jungle knives, they are probably tour guides.

VietNamNet Bridge – The lack of Russian-speaking travel staff and tour guides is one of the impediments to attracting Russian visitors to the country, heard the Vietnam-Russia Tourism Cooperation and Development Conference in HCMC last week.

VietNamNet Bridge – Thousands of tourism major students are produced every year, but travel firms still complain they cannot recruit enough workers.

Leading the country in terms of the number and value of heritages, but the heritages still have not been introduced to many travelers from all over the world.

VietNamNet Bridge – The tour guides have never attended any training courses before. However, they still can work well when receiving tourists to their homeland, Sa Pa.

VietNamNet Bridge – The government has decided that tourism is one of the key industries of the national economy. However, the current policies don’t support the development.