Archive sections: ‘Tourism’
This weekend I got a bit of a surprise and although to say that I was “gobsmacked” might be a bit of an overstatement, I was certainly taken aback.
It’s always nice to be asked for an opinion. It’s a good idea to ask people for their opinion – it says that you value them and their advice, you don’t have to agree them but it is always reassuring if they happen agree with what you already thought, and it is always possible that [...]
I was faced with an interesting dilemma this week … I received a Skype message from a colleague, the director of another tour company based here in Bishkek. He wanted to swap links between our websites.
I won’t say that Naryn is one of my favourite places in Kyrgyzstan – but I do have a soft spot for it … for both the city and the oblast. Of course, one of the reasons for this is probably down to the fact that we have a guesthouse in the city. You could [...]
One of the oldest and best-selling data CD’s about Kyrgyzstan, (with photos, video, text, music, and maps), and the companion DVD, are both called: “Unknown Land Kyrgyzstan“.
Unfortunately things don’t always go right … even in the the best run establishment, things can go wrong, problems can arise, and grounds for complaint can occur. There are some people who complain “at the drop of a hat”, who think nothing of making a scene at even the smallest mistake or mishap, whilst others [...]
It might seem surprising, but despite the events in Kyrgyzstan since April, there are still tourists visiting the country … not many, but the season is not “as dead as a doornail”. Not yet, at least.
Shortly after we opened our hotel in Bishkek we held a “review meeting”, to see how things were going, what needed attention, and so on. One of the staff expressed the view that things were going well, that we had been through all of the situations we could expect to meet, had dealt with them [...]
One of the most important aspects of our job as a tour operator is to think ahead and try to foresee what could possibly go wrong, and then to plan to avoid that situation or, at least, to plan a course of action to minimize the problems that are caused as a result.
I had a visit the other from yet another journalist who wanted to take an interview about the state of tourism in the country. This time it’s for an article to appear in a new journal which is being planned to be published here in Bishkek by a European publishing house. It will be in [...]
