The School of Young Tour Guides opened at the RUSSIA EXPO

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The School of Young Tour Guides of the RUSSIA EXPO was launched in the Home of Youth at the RUSSIA EXPO, where acting tour guides will pass on their professional skills and knowledge of the RUSSIA EXPO content to their children.

Ksenia Razuvaeva, Head of Rosmolodezh, addressed the participants of the launch with a welcoming speech.

“First of all, I would like to welcome the parents of our young ‘guides of meanings’ and express my deepest gratitude for taking on a responsible mission: to introduce the guests of the RUSSIA EXPO to the main achievements of our country. And now this work will be continued by your children, to whom you set a personal example and involve in joint work at an important event for our country. Boys and girls, you are the future of our country, and I want to wish you a lot of luck and success, and we, adults, will always be by your side. I promise that I will join your tour among the first guests, I look forward to it!” said Ksenia Razuvaeva.

Pelageya Sterligova, the Head of the RUSSIA EXPO tour circuit, emphasized that training and working as a guide at the Exposition would be a valuable experience that would come in handy in the future.

“Perhaps not everyone was enthusiastic about the fact that at the end of the year it is necessary to go somewhere to study once again. But I am sure that in just a few days there will be messages of pride in your social networks: that you are studying and then working as guides at such a significant historical exposition as the RUSSIA EXPO. Your life will be long, your destiny will be different. Perhaps at some point in your life you will be lucky enough to work as a guide somewhere. And you will remember the skills you will acquire here. I am sure it will be very useful for you," Pelageya Sterligova said, welcoming the future specialists.

Yuri Ushanov, Deputy President of the Federation of Restaurateurs and Hoteliers of Russia, Deputy Chairman of the Council for Professional Qualification in Hospitality, told the audience more about the work of an assistant guide-excursion guide, the subtleties of which will be devoted to schoolchildren at the course: “It is important that you know that there is such a thing as job descriptions. Adults here will advise you that this is a necessary document. I will tell you that the main function that should be performed by the assistant guide is an auxiliary activity to accompany in the provision of excursion services and assistance to the guide in the process of excursion service.”

But the most important thing, as Yuri Ushanov noted, is that under the new legislation schoolchildren can work. Having mastered the functions of an assistant tour guide and having learned to “go to work”, it will be possible then to continue training and become a real tour guide.

“Judging by the number of applications we received for the School of Young Tour Guide, I see that our endeavor is very important and interesting, and was able to attract the interest of the young generation of guides. It means that a very large number of people love our country and the RUSSIA EXPO. Our children will develop new qualities in themselves, and this, of course, will be very useful in life,” emphasized Inessa Tikanova, the head of the team of guides and the training unit of the RUSSIA EXPO, a member of the "Guides of Meanings" community.

She also noted that it is symbolic how in the Year of the Family, entire dynasties of tour guides are being created, because parents who have already loved the RUSSIA EXPO with all their hearts now want their sons and daughters to tell visitors about all the amazing things our country has to offer.