DON’T BE THAT TOURIST: The Traveler’s Guide to Local Customs, Etiquette, and Avoiding Cultural Faux Pas in 18 Countries - Tapa blanda

Don't Be That Tourist (Paperback)

Paperback. Condición: new. Paperback. You can walk into a room in a country you love and get it wrong in four seconds.Not the museum. Not the train. The greeting. The handshake that ran a beat too long, the hand that reached with the wrong side, the coffee ordered at the wrong hour, the money set down on the counter instead of placed in a palm. Nobody corrects you. They simply file you under visitor and adjust.Guidebooks tell you what to see. This one tells you how to behave. It is the field guide to what not to do when traveling - the unwritten local customs, manners and cultural norms that separate a welcome guest from the tourist who never quite reads the room.Eighteen countries. Six continents. The same nine situations in every chapter. First impressions, at the table, money matters, dress and appearance, conversation, body language, the quirks that are normal here and odd elsewhere, the cardinal sins, and a one-page Blend-In Cheat Sheet short enough to read on the descent.Why does a cappuccino after dinner stop a room in Italy? Why is walking into a French shop without saying bonjour the original sin of French etiquette? When is it an insult to pour your own drink in South Korea, to tip in Japan, or to offer your left hand in Morocco? These answers live in muscle memory, and everyone around you seems to have been born knowing them.Inside are the travel dos and donts that guidebooks skip: greeting customs and handshakes country by country, tipping etiquette and what a service charge already covers, table manners and the order a meal actually follows, dress that reads as respectful in a temple or a mosque, which subjects open a conversation and which quietly close one, gift-giving rules, gestures that change meaning at a border, and the one cardinal sin most likely to offend a host in each place.France, Italy, Spain, Germany, Russia, the United States, Canada, Japan, China, South Korea, Thailand, India, the United Arab Emirates, Turkey, Morocco, Brazil, Mexico and Australia. Flip to the country you need and find the exact section that matters, an hour before you land.The back of the book is built for speed: a cross-cultural Gesture Glossary, a per-country Pocket Phrasebook, a Tipping Chart, a Dress-Code Reference and a searchable Faux-Pas Index.Written for first time travelers, frequent flyers, and anyone whose work drops them into a room where the rules are already running - warm, funny and honest about thirty years of getting it wrong. Etiquette in different countries, explained the way the friend who actually lives there would explain it, thirty seconds before you walk in.Don't just visit. Belong. This item is printed on demand. Shipping may be from our UK warehouse or from our Australian or US warehouses, depending on stock availability. Nº de ref. del artículo: 9798199156004

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