Culture Briefings are your guides to foreign cultures, customs and traditions

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Culture Briefings are your guides to foreign cultures, customs and traditions



Explore world cultures with

Culture Briefings

Culture Briefings provide you current, in-depth info found in no other single source on the customs, culture, traditions and ways of life of individuals in other countries. In today's increasingly smaller world, knowing the ways of the planet earth's other peoples is an important skill. And the Geotravel Research Center's Culture Briefings is guaranteed to assist you develop that expertise.

Culture Briefings assist you figure out the natives by penetrating below a society’s surface to reveal the customs and establish Color ed ways of life in a particular country.

Culture Briefings show the enduring qualities of a individuals also including their present preoccupations. They analyze a country's culture and show why things are the way they're. They delve into a individuals’s character, values, beliefs and customs. You uncover the individuals’s home, loved ones and religious life also including how they make a living, educate their children and spend their leisure time. You learn regarding the culture’s artistic endeavors and it is political ways. And you discover of the difficulties the individuals face and the way they handle them.

No other single publication provids you the info found in a Culture Briefing. Published by the Geotravel Research Center for a growing record of nations, these briefings are important tools for leisure and business travelers, researchers, teachers and students, providing current, in-depth detailed facts that helps to relize the customs and ways of individuals on the globe's cultures


Travelers get to know the individuals

If you are traveling abroad, a Culture Briefing lets you enrich your trip, gaining more knowledge, enjoyment and insight — and more financial success when traveling on business.

By giving you information of the local individuals’s customary ways, a Culture Briefing helps you feel comfortable in what may otherwise be a strange environment. You gain the wisdom necessary to talk intelligently with individuals in a foreign culture, discussing the life they live, deciphering and interpreting how they think and behave. No longer will you run the risk of embarrassment when talking for the reason that you brought up a taboo subject, couldn’t comment on an aspect of local life or knew not a thing of the local form of government. And if you are an enterprise traveler, you will get techniques on conducting business.


Frequent updates assure current info

Research is ongoing and the Culture Briefings are frequently updated, assuring you they contain current info.


Exceptional features improve usefulness

Culture Briefings offer exceptional features that boost their usefulness.

  • Culture Briefings cover the planet earth's cultures in depth, ranging from 5,000 to 15,000 words every.

  • An entire list of topics, linked to the text, lets you quickly locate specific info.

  • A record of “Do's and Don’ts” helps keep you on the right foot.

  • A “Fast Facts” box gives you quick reference to the names of the country’s current head of government and head of state also including quality-of-life statistics for example: life expectancy, infant mortality, gross domestic product per capita and rates of literacy, unemployment and inflation.

  • 2 maps show: 1) the country’s position on it is continent, 2) the country’s major features, regions, rivers and cities.

  • Every country’s briefing and map pages depicts it is national flag.


Countries Available

Culture Briefings are currently accessible for the following countries:

  • Belgium
  • China
  • England
  • France
  • Germany
  • Hungary
  • Italy
  • Japan
  • Kenya
  • Malaysia
  • Mexico
  • Morocco
  • Netherlands
  • Spain
  • Vietnam


Forthcoming Culture Briefings include:

  • India
  • Greece
  • Russia


Experts prepare every Culture Briefing

Culture Briefings offer solid, authoritative detailed material on world cultures. They're produced by a team that brings together backgrounds in cultural geography and cultural anthropology also including extensive experience living for extended periods in a variety of foreign cultures and writing about travel, geography and culture for both the popular press and college-level textbooks.


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