Tour guides to be trained for Sihanoukville.

[CEOCambodiaNews]

Sihanoukville Set for Boost in Trained Tour Guides
by Hang Sokunthea | September 26, 2016

Citing a lack of professional tour guides in Sihanoukville, the Ministry of Tourism will offer training to 130 candidates in the coming months, offering the first two-month course to candidates who speak Chinese.

Tang Socheat Kresna, director of the Sihanoukville tourism department, said the training would be conducted in cooperation with the Intellectual Capital Center, a local vocational training institute.

“We have seen a high demand for tour guides, especially among Chinese tourists,” Mr. Socheat Kresna said, adding that courses would also cater to tour guides who can speak Chinese, English, Korean, Thai and French...

https://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/siha ... es-118440/

[Jamie_Lambo]

what are they going to tour?

[Retardedwaitress]

what are they going to tour?

they can tour the casinos and chicken farm.

Followed by a joint and some booze in the square.

[one_dolla]

Pizza restaurants

[Anchor Moy]

what are they going to tour?

Lol.
Ok, what about the Angkor beer factory. And someone should set up a beer-tasting place to sample local beers... oh yeah, like a bar.

I'm not saying there's nothing to do in SV mind. But the beauty of a deserted beach is that it is "deserted".

[boozyoldman]

"On your right you will see three Ancient Britons who have been soaking up cans of Zorok all morning in front of the discount supermarket and in front of you are some tuk-tuk entrepreneurs eager to introduce you to some friendly ladies and/or interesting drugs."

[Jamie_Lambo]

what are they going to tour?

Lol.
Ok, what about the Angkor beer factory. And someone should set up a beer-tasting place to sample local beers... oh yeah, like a bar.

I'm not saying there's nothing to do in SV mind. But the beauty of a deserted beach is that it is "deserted".

innit,
its not so much about having nothing to do, its more a case of whats worthy of requiring a guided tour?

Kampot sure, you got the bokor mountain, salt lakes, pepper farms etc

Sihanoukville, im not really sure whats "too see" that requires an actual guide

i could just be under thinking

[Anchor Moy]

Right. Trying to be constructive here: What sort of "guides" are they thinking of ? I was thinking of tour groups, but maybe not.
The clue might be here:

Nhim Niv, assistant manager at The Secret Garden, located on O’Tres Beach, said that while tourists managed to get around, there were not many professionals around to show them the way.

“Normally I see the tuk-tuk drivers take the tourists around as their tour guide—with a map with them,” he said.

The tuktuk drivers may not be overjoyed about this new idea, but I could imagine that some tourists would like to pay a guide, who speaks their language, to organise a day out with transport around town and to the beaches, without having to deal with all the shit.
I can understand that some people would be prepared to pay someone to tell them where to go, where to eat, and deal with the compulsory Cambodian complications. Shame that means they miss out on the "real Cambodia", but hey, you can't have everything.

(I'm sure some people would prefer less hassles and less Cambodia, especially when they're only in town for a few days. They're tourists after all.)

[Jamie_Lambo]

Right. Trying to be constructive here: What sort of "guides" are they thinking of ? I was thinking of tour groups, but maybe not.
The clue might be here:

Nhim Niv, assistant manager at The Secret Garden, located on O’Tres Beach, said that while tourists managed to get around, there were not many professionals around to show them the way.

“Normally I see the tuk-tuk drivers take the tourists around as their tour guide—with a map with them,” he said.

The tuktuk drivers may not be overjoyed about this new idea, but I could imagine that some tourists would like to pay a guide, who speaks their language, to organise a day out with transport around town and to the beaches, without having to deal with all the shit.
I can understand that some people would be prepared to pay someone to tell them where to go, where to eat, and deal with the compulsory Cambodian complications. Shame that means they miss out on the "real Cambodia", but hey, you can't have everything.

(I'm sure some people would prefer less hassles and less Cambodia, especially when they're only in town for a few days. They're tourists after all.)

ive been pulling these tours off for years for free with stops including HE Beach, the Waterfall, Otres Pagoda to get blessed by monks etc, i also offer a mongering package but thats going to cost a few beers lol

[CEOCambodiaNews]

ACU now monitoring tour guide exam
Fri, 7 October 2016
Yesenia Amaro

More than 100 students taking the country’s tour-guide exam – a test that has had a history of bribery – were monitored by the Anti-Corruption Unit this week at Cambodian Mekong University.

This year marks the first in which the ACU monitored the exam – the first step in becoming a licensed tour-guide in the Kingdom – mimicking the body’s oversight of the national Grade 12 exam, which has been widely hailed for largely eliminating cheating and bribery from the testing process.

On Tuesday, 108 students took the exam at the private university in Phnom Penh, which is currently licensed by the Ministry of Tourism to administer the exam in the capital, said Keo Buntheng, chief of public relations and student affairs at Cambodian Mekong...

http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/a ... guide-exam