The Impact of English Speaking Proficiency of Hotel's Staff on Attacting Tourists in Qeshm Island

Subject Areas : Geography and tourism planning, geography and urban planning, urban planning, architecture, geography and rural planning, political geography

Shahram Afraz ¹ , Abolghasem Alipour ²

1 - Department of English Language, Qeshm Branch, Islamic Azad University, Qeshm, Iran Corresponding author: Shahram Afraz
2 - M.A. In TEFL, Institute of Higher Education of Qeshm, Qeshm, Iran

Received: 2018-05-08 Accepted : 2018-05-08 Published : 2017-09-01

Keywords: Tourism Industry, hotel, Tourist,

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