✈️🎫 ASEAN and Russia 🇷🇺 are proud to announce the launch of the initiative “Expanding Business Contacts between Russia and ASEAN Countries’ Tourism Enterprises through Russian Language Training and Experience Exchange” - a landmark program designed to foster mutual understanding, enhance cultural exchange, and strengthen ties between ASEAN Member States and Russia. This initiative, funded by the ASEAN-Russia Dialogue Partnership Fund (#ARDPF), is taking place from July to August 2024.
🔹️The project aims to strengthen ties between tourism enterprises in Russia and ASEAN by offering targeted Russian language training and promoting experience exchange.
🔹️Within the framework of the project around 50 participants (in 2 batches) from all ASEAN Member States will get a full-time study of the Russian language, culture, history and cuisine. They will take part in excursions and practices aimed at better understanding the Russian tourist market, studying of the peculiarity of working with Russian tourists’ groups including the methods of attraction of Russian tourists, as well as providing tourist services at a high level.
🚩Started in 2010 with an online language course for tour operators from ASEAN, through the years this initiative has been developed into a comprehensive program that includes not only language studies, but also history, culture and field visits in Russia. As a result, more than 160 professionals from ASEAN returned to their countries as Russian speaking tour operators, guides, and hoteliers and now work with Russian tourists, as well as promote Russian tourism products in the region.
🤝The project's outcome is expected to be an increase in mutual tourist flows through the development and implementation of new and interesting tourist products, ensuring a comfortable and safe stay for tourists, introducing new technologies and methods of working with tourists, and improving the linguistic competence of industry staff from ASEAN Member States.
🔹️The project aims to strengthen ties between tourism enterprises in Russia and ASEAN by offering targeted Russian language training and promoting experience exchange.
🔹️Within the framework of the project around 50 participants (in 2 batches) from all ASEAN Member States will get a full-time study of the Russian language, culture, history and cuisine. They will take part in excursions and practices aimed at better understanding the Russian tourist market, studying of the peculiarity of working with Russian tourists’ groups including the methods of attraction of Russian tourists, as well as providing tourist services at a high level.
🚩Started in 2010 with an online language course for tour operators from ASEAN, through the years this initiative has been developed into a comprehensive program that includes not only language studies, but also history, culture and field visits in Russia. As a result, more than 160 professionals from ASEAN returned to their countries as Russian speaking tour operators, guides, and hoteliers and now work with Russian tourists, as well as promote Russian tourism products in the region.
🤝The project's outcome is expected to be an increase in mutual tourist flows through the development and implementation of new and interesting tourist products, ensuring a comfortable and safe stay for tourists, introducing new technologies and methods of working with tourists, and improving the linguistic competence of industry staff from ASEAN Member States.