Learning to make the "ugly American tourist" more attractive

So who exactly is the exotic one on this trip? Tour guides around the world have to adjust to the various preconceptions, cultural contradictions, and misimpressions held by the various groups they guide. But as you find yourselves in exotic, strange lands on their foreign vacations, this writer notes that "your tour guide probably finds you equally strange and otherworldly."

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How Tour Guides Abroad Learn to Cater to Exotic Americans

By Julie Weed

The New York Times

November 28, 2016