The Council of Minister on Friday approved a sub-decree requiring tour guide to obtain licenses from the government in an effort to regulate and improve quality of service in the tourism sector. The sub-decree aims “to define the procedure to manage tourist guides” and requires current and aspiring guides to complete training courses on tourism in order to obtain or renew two-year licenses, according to a copy of the document. Tith Chantha, director-general of the Tourism Ministry’s genital. Department of tourism, said yesterday that there were more than 4,000 registered tour guides in the country. “This law benefits the tourism sector, as it guarantees training and regulation to control guides,” he said.
Ten Ratana, director of the ministry’s education and training department, said that under the sub-decree, anyone who wants to register to be a tour guide must have at least a high school diploma to apply for the ministry’s three-month tourism training program. “The ministry will then issue the certificate…and then they can apply for the license,” he said. “If Ministry of Tourism police find illegal tourist guides who don’t have training or a license, or if they have an invalid license or a fake license, they will be educated or fined or arrested,” he said. Ho Vandy, co-president of the Government-Private Sector Tourism Working Group, welcomed the new sub-decree, saying that it would encourage professionalism in the tourism sector. “This sub-decree will lead tourist guides to be more professional and help avoid general service problems,” he said.
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