Travel Industry Interpreting

Tourism and travel interpreters help businesses communicate and provide excellent guest services for all customers. Translated materials help international guests feel welcome in the environment and provide familiarity, trust, and understanding. When international tourists or business travelers visit a foreign country, language support is key, and the ability to effectively communicate in their native language can be the difference between a booming business, and one that loses business. Partnering with a professional language services provider to empower your guests is vital for businesses in the travel and tourism industry.

The goal of mastering the discipline

The goal of this course is the formation and enhancement of initial knowledge of a student on the tourism industry, as well as the vocabulary and grammar of Chinese / Russian language, the formation of skills in translating tour guide texts.

The skills you get

  • Know the features of intercultural communication for linguistic and extralinguistic analysis To be able to carry out linguistic and extralinguistic analysis of communication in compliance with linguistic and speech norms. Master the basics of intercultural communication to identify intercultural asymmetries and successfully solve these problems

Topics covered

  • Global and local history review
  • Introduction to tourism activities
  • Practice-oriented translation of tourism related texts

When instructed

  • 2nd year, 2nd semester

List of references and sourses

1. Information support of tourism: a textbook for universities in the direction of training "Tourism" / N. S. Morozova, M. A. Morozov, A. D. Chudnovsky [and others], 2014. - 286.
2. Garbovsky N.K. Translation theory: textbook / N.K. Garbovsky, 2020. - 387 p.