Venezuela - Culture Smart!: The Essential Guide to Customs & Culture - Softcover

Russell Maddicks; Culture Smart!

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1857336577 ISBN 13: 9781857336573

Publisher: Kuperard, 2012

Synopsis

Culture Smart! Venezuela provides essential information on attitudes, beliefs and behaviour in Venezuela, ensuring that you arrive at your destination aware of basic manners, common courtesies, and sensitive issues. This concise guide will tell you what to expect, how to behave, and how to establish a rapport with your hosts. This inside knowledge will enable you to steer clear of embarrassing gaffes and mistakes, feel confident in unfamiliar situations, and develop trust, friendships, and successful business relationships. Culture Smart! provides rare insights, and practical guidance, into cultures. The values, behaviour and customs of peoples have been formed over centuries which is why the unique information in Culture Smart! guides do not date in the same way as ordinary travel guides. Culture Smart! enables you to step into a world untouched by other guidebooks.

About this title

Review:

Culture Smart! has come to the rescue of hapless travellers, Sunday Times Travel - ...the perfect introduction to the weird, wonderful and downright odd quirks and customs of various countries, Global Travel - ...full of fascinating, as well as common sense, tips to help you avoid embarrassing faux pas, Observer - ...as useful as they are entertaining, Easy Jet Magazine - ...offer glimpses into the psyche of a faraway world, New York Times. --Various

About the Author:

RUSSELL MADDICKS is a BBC-trained journalist who lived in Venezuela for eleven years. He traveled the length and breadth of the country, and to finance his stay he worked in jobs that helped him to get under the skin of his adopted home: as an English teacher at the British Council; a jungle guide taking tour groups to the base of Angel Falls and the top of Roraima; a translator and interpreter; and a reporter on an English-language newspaper. There are few corners of Venezuela he hasn t visited in his quest to explore every facet of this fascinating country. He is the author of the Bradt Guide to Venezuela (2011).

About this edition

• Publisher: Kuperard
• Publication date: 2012
• ISBN 10: 1857336577
• ISBN 13: 9781857336573
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 168