{"id":216987,"date":"2022-12-03T19:40:03","date_gmt":"2022-12-03T14:10:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.forumias.com\/?p=216987"},"modified":"2022-12-03T19:40:03","modified_gmt":"2022-12-03T14:10:03","slug":"tourist-guides-to-front-unique-india-experience-at-g-20-meeting-venues","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/tourist-guides-to-front-unique-india-experience-at-g-20-meeting-venues\/","title":{"rendered":"Tourist guides to front \u2018unique India experience\u2019 at G-20 meeting venues"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><b>Source: <\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The post is based on the article<\/span><b> \u201cTourist guides to front \u2018unique India experience\u2019 at G-20 meeting venues\u201d <\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">published in<\/span><b> The Hindu <\/b>on <b>3rd December 2022.<\/b><\/p>\n<h5><b>What is the News?<\/b><\/h5>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">One thousand tourist guides would fan out across the 55 locations where G-20 meetings would be held over the next one year to facilitate the travel of foreign delegates and \u201censure a unique Indian experience\u201d for them.<\/span><\/p>\n<h5><b>How will India promote tourism during its G20 Presidency?<\/b><\/h5>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">India has assumed the G20 Presidency. As part of this process, the government of India has embarked on a massive exercise to showcase India and training tourist guides or tourist facilitators to foreign delegates.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The training of the tourist guides is being done through the Indian Institute of Tourism and Travel Management and Regional Directors from the Ministry of Tourism.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">A major part of the training would include language skill programmes in nine foreign languages like French and German. Other focus areas would be etiquette, knowledge of local attractions and monuments, cuisines, handicrafts and souvenirs.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Apart from this, the Tourism Ministry has asked the Archaeological Survey of India to draw up a list of local monument-specific guides who would be trained as and when meetings are held in those particular cities.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The focus would be on UNESCO world heritage sites and the 100 centrally protected monuments. For example, training to boatmen would come in handy in places like Udaipur which is known for its lakes.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Source: The post is based on the article \u201cTourist guides to front \u2018unique India experience\u2019 at G-20 meeting venues\u201d published in The Hindu on 3rd December 2022. What is the News? One thousand tourist guides would fan out across the 55 locations where G-20 meetings would be held over the next one year to facilitate&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/tourist-guides-to-front-unique-india-experience-at-g-20-meeting-venues\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Tourist guides to front \u2018unique India experience\u2019 at G-20 meeting venues<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10317,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1566,3127,9],"tags":[10498],"class_list":["post-216987","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-daily-factly-articles","category-economy","category-public","tag-the-hindu","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","views":{"total":0,"cached_at":"","cached_date":1704799318},"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/216987","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10317"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=216987"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/216987\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=216987"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=216987"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=216987"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}