• Location:Taiwan
• Date: 2018/09/03
• Update Date:2020/07/22
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Q1: What is the purpose of offering “Training Class of Getting Minority Language Tour Guide License”?
A1: Visitors from Southeast Asian countries have become an important source of travelers in Taiwan. New inhabitants have the advantage of languages. If they can be tour guides to receive travelers from their home countries and introduce Taiwan’s culture and scenery in their fluent mother tongue, they are of great help to improve the receiving quality and fill in the manpower shortage of tour guides.
Because being a tour guide needs to be a high school graduate as well as passing the “Junior Professional and Technical Examinations for Tour Guides” organized by Ministry of Examination and receiving the tour guide license, Tourism Bureau offers “Training Class of Getting Minority Language Tour Guide License” to new inhabitants with a high school degree to pass the exam.


Q2: When will the “Training Class of Getting Minority Language Tour Guide License” be offered?
A2: To assist new inhabitants with a high school degree in passing the “Junior Professional and Technical Examinations for Tour Guides” organized by Ministry of Examination (Every year online registration of the exam opens at the end of December and the exam will be in March of the following year), Tourism Bureau plans to offer “Training Class of Getting Minority Language Tour Guide License” from September to November every year. The class information is posted on “New Immigrant Empowerment and Development Network.”


Q3: How much is the “Training Class of Getting Minority Language Tour Guide License”?
A3: Currently, the fee for attending the class is subsidized by Tourism Bureau.