Under the patronage of His Excellency Mr. Zayed R. Alzayani, Minister of Industry, Commerce and Tourism the “Tour Guides Open Day” is launched Sunday morning at the Bahrain International Exhibition and Convention Centre.

In his speech, the minister referred to the Ministry’s recent focus to implement plans and programs aimed at enhancing tourism sector in the Kingdom of Bahrain being an important economic sector. The minister said that “the Ministry of Industry, Commerce and Tourism within its orientations to enhance the economic sector in the Kingdom, put developing tourism sector at the forefront of its priorities and working to develop plans and programs to upgrade this vital sector including training tour guides and enable them to get a professional license in this important sector, tourist guides is one of the basics of tourist attraction that the kingdom seeks to develop it and qualify human cadres working in this sector,” 

key speakers of the open day are Jassim Zaiton and Grant Holmes. The  event is attended by a large number of representatives such as hotels, travel and tourism bodies and others.

The training workshop which has begun on October 11 until October 15 is a part of series training workshops aimed develop tourist guide profession, which considered one of the basics of tourist attraction.

Minister of Industry, Commerce and Tourism Mr. Zayed bin R. Al Zayani attended training workshop for tourist guides, which was launched on Sunday evening. He expressed ministry’s keenness and support to develop this profession stating “these workshops are national program the ministry aims through it  to create and develop a new career, where after the completion of the current team, the profession will be limited to this licensed category to do this work. This is a national honesty the ministry keen to maintain it  through the history of Bahrain.”

The workshop is divided into two parts, theoretical and  practical, focusing on training the tourist  guides about the best tourist guides behaviors. The program also includes tours to some archaeological and tourist sites in Bahrain.  

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