THE 101 CROSS CULTURAL ISSUES IN TURISM AND HOSPITALITY
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Unit Title: Cross Cultural issues in Tourism and Hospitality
Unit Number: THE101
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Unit Title: Cross Cultural issues in Tourism and Hospitality
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In hospitality industry is very important to understand different types of cultures because it is a huge and worldwide industry where there are all kind of cultures, religions and we all have to understand every tradition each one of us have, maybe we do not agree with everything but respect and knowledge is a fundamental key for leading with each other and after all we don’t know when are we going to get involved in business with people with different point of view, after all that is what the hospitality and tourism industry means: business.
Doing some research of cultural characteristics is very important to the tourism industry because this day’s tourism environment is increasing day by day. Technology advances had help a lot in terms of communication between people traveling and this generates exposure with different societies, interaction between different cultures is now something common. It is definitely obligatory to understand the influence of national cultures between their customers, as we deal with some foreign people daily.
As each of us bring our own culture were ever we go, therefore we all have different points of view, and it comes a time when we have to get the ideas concealed in just one idea, for this we need to learn how to take advantage of the knowledge of each culture and make something worldwide understandable.
In the Tourism and Hospitality industry culture plays a fundamental roll because it’s the main reason of why we travel, if there were no different