Wednesday, July 22, 2009

INTRODUCING SOUTH AFRICA



Last week we started on this book called Introducing South Africa,which is a book that you will need when working in the tourism industry. Knowing your culture and cultures in your area and in South Africa as a hole helps not just you as a tourist guide but also a person as a hole. Knowing your mother and fathers backround, knowing what they went through as kids and still today what they have to go thruogh in there cultures and in yours. The book Introducing South Africa tells us where all the different foods,races,cultures and religious came from.The tipacal weathers and climates South Africa has and in what season we get those weathers.It introduces the demographs ,species ,the economy and the road ,rail, air and sea routes things that we never get to understand ,but being to tourist guide you need to know all of this things.This book also tells you abuot the major tourust attractions in South Africa in all the nine provinces and also the heritage sites that are important to the history of South Africa and its people .And also the history of South Africa from the cave-age to the nineteeth century,knowing what happened during those years.How law is made ,the police serviceand national defence force,the history and the war that happened in the Anglo-Zulu and the Boer War.The diferent religion and religous groups,the Government of national unity,the cultures and the different languages.All of this needed when and learning about this is important in a persons work place.

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