Interview with a Tourist

Locate a person to interview who is living in your country as a temporary visitor, such as a tourist or a student from another country who will return home after a short period of time. Ask for the person's permission to use his or her name and quotations in the paper and how to correctly spell their name. Prepare your questions ahead of time and craft them well. The goal is to find out about the person's experience as a tourist. Write an essay of 500-750 words about the experience. Do not write it as a verbatim account of the interview. Use quotes as needed, but write the paper as an essay.Where did you meet the person? How long did you visit? What did you learn? Was this person's experience typical of what you read in the textbook about how hosts and tourists interact? How, specifically, did business people treat them? Reflect on how much this experience stretched your comfort zone and how this observation could affect your intercultural communication. If you were going to do this assignment over, what could you do that would make it more valuable to you and, perhaps, to the other person? Prepare this assignment according to the APA guidelines. An abstract is not required. You are required to submit this assignment to Turnitin. Resource questions:1. What is your home country? 2. What is the dominant language? What other languages do you speak? 3. What are some common gestures, sounds, or symbols that others would need to know if they wanted to communicate with people in your culture? 4. Have you noticed any gestures in your host country that you consider rude? 5. How long have you been in your host country? 6. How well do you speak its primary language? 7. How have business people treated you? 8. Do you feel like people in general welcome you to the host culture? 9. What are some examples of positive or negative responses you have received? 10. How are decisions made in your culture? If a parent or elder typically makes decisions at home, how difficult has it been for you here to have to make decisions independently? 11. Do people treat you better or worse in the host culture than in your own culture based on your age, gender, or marital status? 12. How do people dress in your culture? 13. What do you think about the way people dress in your host culture? 14. What are some things about your culture that you wish other people knew so that they would communicate with you better? 15. What is the thing you miss most about your home culture while you are away? 16. What surprised you most about your host culture? 17. What adjustments did you have to make to feel comfortable in your host culture? 18. What do you think you would miss most about this country when you return to your country? 19. When people return to their home country, if they have been gone for a long time, they often experience a surprising culture shock called “re-entry” culture shock. What do you think will shock you about returning home?