Language training for guides
PA Wellington Tourist guides will be. trained in foreign languages'to help cope with the thousands of non-Eng-lish speaking visitors to New Zealand. The Minister of Tourism, Mr Moore, announced that a course to train guides would be held in April or early May. A certificate would be given to those completing the course. The new course is designed to help New Zealand’s army of guides cope with an increasing influx of non-En- ; glishspeaking tourists. Figures show a 22 per cent increase in Japanese visitors, the biggest non-English-speaking group, in the year up to October.. More than 60,00CLyisited during the year.
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