新年快乐!

祝大家2009新年快乐！
新的一年有更精彩的旅程！

OurExplorer - Tour Guide & Tourist Guide
Happy Exploring!

冬日的假期

元旦、春节、年假，相信很多人都在计划着出去旅游。一路往南，享受冬天里的夏日？一路向北，与冰雪同乐？一行往西，看看苍茫的景色？一行向东，体验城市的缤纷？无论怎样，记得带上好心情，慰劳辛勤了一年的自己。

在欧美，很多人喜欢冬天去滑雪。现在在中国也挺流行，北京的滑雪场也很热闹。

介绍几个OurExplorer雪上运动导游。

Switzerland Mountain and Snowsports Guide











Switzerland Ski Tour Guide











Slovenia Ski Tour Guide











American Mountain Guide











Happy Exploring!
OurExplorer - Tour Guide & Tourist Guide
local guides, local wisdom

好玩的纽约导游录像 Big Apple Guide

很有意思的纽约导游，一系列的录像短篇介绍纽约各处。每集中客串的都很好玩。

Author：Robert Westfield
Source: http://www.robertwestfield.com/bio-author.htm 

Robert was born in Maryland in 1972 and spent his early years in Japan, Hawaii, California, and West Virginia before his family returned to Maryland and settled in Bryans Road, a small, one-stoplight community south of Washington. In 1990, Robert moved to New York to attend Columbia where he twice won the college playwriting prize as well as the fiction award and the Henry Evans Traveling Fellowship which funded a writing/research trip to Greece and Italy. He spent his twenties catering, temping and leading tours of New York while writing for the theater (A Wedding Album, The Pennington Plot, A Tulip Economy, and A Home Without). He was the writer-in-residence for The Working Group and a dramaturge on Marc Wolf’s award-winning solo play, Another American: Asking and Telling. Suspension is his first novel. He currently lives in upper Manhattan where he is at work on his next novel, a new play and several Little Bytes.

Herald Square, Part One: "It's Not ALL Macy's"
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IgCjpm-JWKI

Bowling Green Part Two: Continental Bull
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U_ksopfDRTw

New York City Tour Guide
New York City Tourist Guide

OurExplorer presenting to tour guides at WFTGA

I am excited to annonce that OurExplorer will be presenting at the World Federation of Tourist Guides annual conference in Bali - mid Jan 2009.

OurExplorer will be delighted to meet thousands of tour guides from all over the world. The aim of OurExplorer is to help these tour guides access a new method of getting business - Online.

OurExplorer will focus on how online shopping and purchasing is the way of the future - rising dramatically each year.

Do you have any queries about online sales for your tour guide service?

Cheers
Dave Cunningham
Chief Exploring Officer

Source: tourist guides, tour guides online booking

泰国结束示威

“民盟宣布将于3号同时结束在总理府、曼谷素万那普国际机场和廊曼机场的集会示威活动。 民盟决定结束所有的示威活动，这对因被民盟占领而被迫关闭了一周多的素万那普国际机场和廊曼机场来说是个好消息。

这场自今年5月起爆发的政府与反政府派别间的政治纷争目前已经暂时告一段落，但持续了半年的纷争极大地影响了泰国旅游服务业、出口业和外资引进等。据法新社援引泰国工业部门的数据，民盟近来升级的示威活动导致泰国旅游业每天损失700万美元，进出口贸易业每天的损失则高达8500万美元。政局的动荡还“吓走”了不少海外投资者。

有关部门预计，如果泰国国内的局势持续动荡，明年到泰国旅游的海外游客数量将可能从今年的1350万人次锐减到600万人次，这将直接导致约100万泰国旅游业从业者失业，泰国经济恐将在明年出现大幅下滑。 ”

以上来源：http://finance.cctv.com/program/qqzxb/20081203/107480.shtml

旅游业不是一个独立的行业，它可以带动酒店、娱乐、交通、购物等一系列行业的发展，也受到气候、自然灾害、政治变动等很多因素的影响。政局的变动，对曾被评为世界第一旅游胜地的泰国，打击颇大。毕竟安全是旅游的前提和基础。希望天使之城能尽快恢复。











图：曼谷素万那普国际机场
[曼谷导游:Bangkok Tour Guides]