英文摘要 |
Since the Chinese visitors are allowed to visit Taiwan for sightseeing, mandarintour guides have conducted twice mass protests and submitted petition to Ministry ofTransportation and Communications, and Tourism Bureau, hoping the governm entattaches importance to the basic income and interests of mandarin tour guides. By thedeep interviews of qualitative research methods, this study deeply probes thephenomenon of Chinese low-price tour groups, and related problems faced bymandarin tour guides, and then recommends the improvements, particularly focused on references to the relevant regulations to discuss the applicable right to practice, Labor Standards Act, and National Health Insurance Act for mandarin tour guides; the empirical data collected from 8 interviewees of industries, government and academics are found that: The way to operate low-price tour by the travel agencies causes professional interpretation mandarin tour guides to gradually become shopping commodity-based guide staff; mandarin tour guides’ salary are most uncertain commissions, with insecurity of income. (1)Taiwan’s tour guides system primarily is exam and training separately, different with the practices of Japan and Macao, and the job training is not mandatory to participate. The union of exam and training can be a way recommended to increase the quality and professional degrees of tour guides. (2)According to the provisions of 2nd Generation NHI of National Heath Insurance Administration, professionals and technicians who independently practice must be returned to category 1 of the insured. Tourism Bureau, Ministry of Transportation and Communications said by replied letter that tour guides and tour leaders are not permitted to independently practice according to laws, so that they did not have the identify set forth in item 5, category 1 of national health Insurance (Independently practicing professionals and technicians). There are still different opinions in various circles about whether tour guides can practice or not if they pass the Civil Service Junior Examination for Professionals and Technicians. (3)Mandarin tour guides are originally applicable to Labor Standards Act, but now because of “industry attribution change”, become into NA. The situation is very special. (4)Tourism Bureau elaborated to approve Mandarin tour guide’s right to practice for Chinese tourists’ free tour, and to amend the law or not, industry, government and academics show half and half of the pros and cons. Finally, the results from this study are collated and analyzed to propose practical recommendations and the follow-up research and development. |