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A specific set of international gestures can be useful to enhance the communication between tourists and the people from the country they are visiting. This can be expanded to other instances of commerce involving people from different BRICS countries, specially at a grass-roots level.
Previous Experience (school activity after learning lesson 2):
Proposal for BRICS
Proposal for BRICS
To establish a specific set of concepts that can be used in touristic activities, and to prepare a group of standard sentences including these concepts.
With help of the online Dictionaries, the YoGoTe signs corresponding to these ideas can be identified.
Publication of these signs (and the corresponding international gestures, recorded in videos) would allow touristic agents from the BRICS countries to offer an additional service for the foreign visitors: The possibility of basic understanding with help of these common signs.
The idea can be expanded to shops and local commerce, which could hang a shield explaining that international gestures are understood, thus attracting the foreign visitors who already know these signs.
A school activity called Global Market can be helpful to understand how this concept could work. In this case, the children had studied previously Lesson 2 in several languages:
Portuguese, Russian, Chinese, English, Swahili, Arabic, Indonesian, Korean, Turkish, Wolof
Relation with BRICS goals
Relation with BRICS goals
85. Recognizing tourism’s great potential to contribute to sustainable economic and social development, we welcome the initiative to establish a BRICS Working Group on Tourism, to foster greater cooperation between the BRICS countries and increase economic development and people-to-people relations. The BRICS Tourism work stream will exchange knowledge, experience and best practices in the areas of travel trade, air connectivity, tourism infrastructure, culture and medical tourism, barriers to tourism marketing, tourism safety and support - financial, insurance and medical. We note with satisfaction that Intra-BRICS Tourism has grown despite the global economic downturn.
V. People-to-people cooperation
86. Emphasising the centrality of people in BRICS and its programmes, we commend the steady progress and exchanges in the fields of sports, youth, films, culture, education and tourism.
96. We acknowledge with satisfaction the progress made towards strengthening cooperation and interaction amongst our people, through exchanges including the Think-Tank Council, the Academic Forum, the Civil BRICS Forum, the Young Diplomats Forum, the Youth Summit and the Young Scientists Forum.
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