Product Description

"Culture Smart!" provides priceless nuggets of cultural information on India not found in a standard guidebook. Whether you are looking to secure a business deal, enrich your travels, or simply better understand India, its people and customs, "Culture Smart!" provides the information in a clear and highly readable guide. Rather than get bogged down with where to stay, where to eat, and where to go; provide yourself with the knowledge of what makes the country tick and experience India as a local.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #125032 in Books
• Published on: 2006-03-16
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Paperback
• 168 pages

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

Global Travel Magazine, May/June 2003, Vol 6 issue 4
The perfect introduction to the weird, wonderful and downright odd quirks and customs of various countries.

From the Publisher
This series represents a completely new kind of travel publishing. In answering the needs of travellers in a changing world, it leads the way in building bridges between cultures and fostering mutual understanding and respect.

It provides vital information, not only to tourists, but also to the ever-growing number of travelling businessmen and women. As business traffic increases around the globe, so the need for greater cross-cultural understanding, in order to achieve a successful outcome, becomes more pressing.

These handy digests contain essential cultural information that enables you to steer clear of embarrassing gaffes and mistakes, to be a responsible and sympathetic visitor, and to derive the maximum benefit from your stay.

Written by the expert consultants at CultureShock!Consulting, the information provided is accurate, up-to-date, and based on hands-on experience.

Customer Reviews

Buy Buy Buy
I was searching through the website looking for guides to India for my travels, then a came accross this little gem. It is a must for anyone wanting to enhance their travels of India, it improved my trip 100% and made me feel so much safer and gave me such a greater understanding of the country and people. I love it.

Useful if you need a book to replace common sense
Although there were a couple of useful things to know in this book there were really no massive revelations. In my experience as long as you are a normal, decent respectful person with an ounce of common sense you will get by fine. I made a couple of social faux pas in my time in India but because I was polite people either quietly pointed them out - trying not to embarrass me - or found it all rather amusing.
In a way I found with this book that it could make people rather paranoid about trying to remember all these minor conventions and social etiquettes. Be nice, be polite and observe what others do - that's it.

0-100 in a day
This is a very good little book for people who dont know much about India but want to learn more probably because of visiting India or working with Indians. It explains all that is required very concisely and quite well. Ofcourse as you may expect there are lots of finer details missing but it still deserves a good rating for its content.

One of my colleague who didnt know much about India or Indians went through the entire book (170 pages) in a 8 hour flight and by the end of his journey knew exactly what India is and how Indians behave.

One point to note is that some of the statistics are not up to date and you may want to refer to CIA factbook for more updated details.