Tourist Guide, Life Diversity, Responsibility

Iranian tourist guides celebrated 21^st of February in harmony with UNWTO’s slogan

This year, Iranian tourist guides by help of tourist guide trade unions of different provinces celebrated tour guide world day on February 21^st in the city of Ramsar(north of Iran) to maintain the sense of identity and to emphasize job duties and goals with view of nature touring

Simultaneously with other countries, Tourist guides from all over Iran celebrated 21^st of February, one of the most important conventions of tour guides, in the city of Ramsar, located in Mazandaran Province, for the 4^th year. More than 400 tourist guides attended in this ceremony from different provinces such as Tehran, Esfahan, East and West Azerbaijan, Ardabil, Khorasan, Khuzestan, Semnan, Qazvin, Kerman, Golestan, Gilan, Mazandaran and the local people Who provide local houses, foods and tours for the passengers

According to UNWTO’s slogan, “ Tourist Guide, Life Diversity, Responsibility ”, and simultaneously with 40^th anniversary of signing the world convention, Ramsar Convention (emphasizes the protection of world lagoons), this year the ceremony was held in Ramsar based on nature touring from 19^th to 21^st

Developing knowledge of tour guides

At the first day, 12 workshops were held in university. It included different subjects such as introducing tourist attractions of Iran, Lake Urmia and threatening dangers, photography in nature, garbage and cleaning nature during trip, communication skills, knowing GPS, role of expertness in tourism, security and rescue in nature

Using recyclable dishes

The second day program included two parts. In the morning, tour guides had new experience in Ramsar cable-cars and in the evening, they went to “ Chaldare “ area in Tonekabon and participated in sports matches. They watched “ Gile mardi “ wrestling (it can be registered as an intangible heritage) accompanied by local music. Handicrafts, local clothing, foods and drinks were noticeable for tour guides. To serve lunch, they used recyclable dishes to emphasize protecting nature. At the end, tour guides cleaned the area

Cultural meeting with experts and tourist guides

After the tourist guides returned from “ Chaldare “, they saw Ramsar museum. At the same time, there was a cultural meeting in ” Negin “ restaurant. The audience were special guests

1.    Bijan Farhang Darre Shouri, ecologist and nature photographer

2.    Naser Karami, journalist and environment expert

3.    Mehdi Nabieian, writer

4.    Alireza Naderi, entomologist and butterfly expert

5.    Mahmoud Sakhtbaz, one of the most skillful tour guides about hunting tours

6.    Houman Jokar, expert in wildlife and ecotourism

7.    Fakhr o sadat Ghani, expert in nature touring

8.    Kamran Kamali, writer

9.    Hormoz Emami, director

10. Iraj Milani, documentary film maker

11. Representatives of trade unions in different provinces and tourism journalists

In this meeting, the experts and journalists talked about environmental subjects and its relation with tourism and the role of tourist guides. Before the meeting was finished, tour guides entered the restaurant but they didn’t make any problem

World registration of Hirkani jungles

At the last day, before the ceremony, there was an exhibition that the representatives of different provinces presented their brochures and packages of cultural products to introduce their activities about tourism. Also, tourism journals and the sponsors attended. This year like the other years, the ceremony began at 9:57A.M. 21^st of February to emphasize the importance of punctuality. The ceremony included some speeches, giving gifts and performing live music. The active persons in tourism, best tourist guides and the sponsors were praised and tourist guides demanded to register Hirkani jungles in UNESCO as one of natural heritages and also they wanted the municipality of Ramsar to name one of the streets in this city with the name of tourist guide. As the permanent symbol, the statue of ceremony is being transferred to the place of ceremony, and this year, the statue was delivered to the representative of Ramsar by the representative of East-Azerbaijan      

Source: http://wftga.org/main.php?page=international_tourist_guide_day

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