Cultural Tourism In America

Culture and Tourism

According to UNESCO, culture is defined as the set of distinctive spiritual, material, intellectual and emotional features of society or a social group. Tourism is defined as the practice of traveling to a destination for a limited amount of time. Cultural tourism means travelling to learn about each other’s ways of life and thought.
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The nineteenth stop on the North-South line is Toa Payoh. There are many firsts for the little town of Toa Payoh. Its Mass Rapid Transit (MRT) station was the very first to be completed way back in 1985, during the first phase of the MRT construction. Today, the station is connected to a sprawling bus interchange, which also happens to be Singapore’s first fully air-conditioned bus interchange.

The Mahavira Hall and the Dharma Hall was restored in 1997, but the building only reopened in 2002. You can see the difference of the building structure if you compare the temple currently standing to the temple in the 1800’s and 1900’s. If you compare the two pictures below, you can see the difference, with the temple looking much cleaner and modern after reconstruction, with more support pillars, proper flooring, an upgrade of the roof, new tablets hung above the doors, and a fresh coat of

The tour guide did not seem to understand and embrace the Peranakan culture. It would not be possible for guides to explain to the tourists about Peranakan culture when the guides themselves did not understand the Peranakan culture. Perhaps the guide was not well-trained, as guides should be engaging and entertaining, not boring. Also, in the review, the user commented that the short cooking demonstration was stretched out to extend the use of time. This reflects poor time planning of the tour, which would disrupt the experience of the tourists. This goes to show that the different elements of the tour, if poorly executed, will result in an uneventful and inauthentic experience for the