Global Etiquette Guides

Understanding other people's languages, cultures, etiquettes and taboos is of great value to the traveller or visiting business person.

Scroll down the page for information on a selected number of countries. Topics include language, useful phrases, the society, culture, business and social etiquettes.

Other resources include:

You can access Foreign Language PhrasesUseful Phrases here or through the corresponding country .

Etiquette, Customs and Protocol Guides

Asia:

Afghanistan Etiquette CultureAfghanistan     Azerbaijan Etiquette CultureAzerbaijan    Bahrain Etiquette CultureBahrain   Bangladesh Etiquette CultureBangladesh   China Etiquette CultureChina   Georgia Etiquette CultureGeorgia   India Etiquette CultureIndia     Iran Etiquette CultureIran    Iraqi Etiquette CultureIraq

Kazakhstan Etiquette CultureKazakhstan   Kuwait Etiquette CultureKuwait    Lebanese Etiquette CultureLebanon    Pakistan Etiquette CulturePakistan    Russia Etiquette CultureRussia   Saudi Etiquette CultureSaudi Arabia   Sri Lanka Etiquette CultureSri Lanka   Turkish Etiquette CultureTurkey

Africa:

Algeria Etiquette CultureAlgeria    Angola Etiquette CultureAngola   Cameroon Etiquette CultureCameroon   Egyptian Etiquette CultureEgypt     Ethiopian Business Etiquette CultureEthiopia   Ghanaian Etiquette CultureGhana     Kenyan Etiquette CultureKenya    Libyan Etiquette CultureLibya   Morocco Etiquette CultureMorocco   Nigerian Etiquette CultureNigeria   Senegal Etiquette CultureSenegal

South Africa Etiquette CultureSouth Africa   Tunisia Etiquette CultureTunisia

Europe:

Austrian Business Etiquette CultureAustria     Belgium Business Etiquette CultureBelgium     Bulgarian Business Etiquette CultureBulgaria    Croatian Business Etiquette CultureCroatia   Cyprus Business Etiquette CultureCyprus    Czech Business Etiquette CultureCzech Republic   Danish Business Etiquette CultureDenmark   Estonia Business Etiquette CultureEstonia   Finnish Business Etiquette CultureFinland    French Business Etiquette CultureFrance

German Business Etiquette CultureGermany    Greek Business Etiquette CultureGreece   Hungarian Business Etiquette CultureHungary   Irish Business Etiquette CultureIreland    Italian Business Etiquette CultureItaly     Latvian Business Etiquette CultureLatvia     Lithuanian Business Etiquette CultureLithuania    Luxembourg Business Etiquette CultureLuxembourg    Holland Business Etiquette CultureNetherlands  Norwegian Business Etiquette CultureNorway

Polish Business Etiquette CulturePoland   Portuguese Business Etiquette CulturePortugal    Romanian Business Etiquette CultureRomania   Slovak Business Etiquette CultureSlovakia   Slovenian Business Etiquette CultureSlovenia   Spanish Business Etiquette CultureSpain   Swedish Business Etiquette CultureSweden   British Business Etiquette CultureUK   Ukrainian Business Etiquette CultureUkraine

North & South America:

Argentina Business Etiquette CultureArgentina     Bolivian Business Etiquette CultureBolivia     Brazilian Business Etiquette CultureBrazil   Canadian Business Etiquette CultureCanada   Chile Business Etiquette CultureChile   Colombian Business Etiquette CultureColombia   Dominican Business Etiquette CultureDominican Republic    Ecuadorian Business Etiquette CultureEcuador    El Salvador Business Etiquette CultureEl Salvador

Jamaican Business Etiquette CultureJamaica   Mexican Business Etiquette CultureMexico    Bahamas Business Etiquette CultureThe Bahamas   American Business Etiquette CultureUSA     Venezuelan Business Etiquette CultureVenezuela

East Asia & Australasia:

Australian Business Etiquette CultureAustralia     Bruneian Business Etiquette CultureBrunei    Cambodian Business Etiquette CultureCambodia    Hong Kong Business Etiquette CultureHong Kong    Indonesian Business Etiquette CultureIndonesia   Japanese Business Etiquette CultureJapan   Malay Business Etiquette CultureMalaysia   Kiwi Business Etiquette CultureNew Zealand

Philippino Business Etiquette CulturePhilippines    Singapore Business Etiquette CultureSingapore      Korean Business Etiquette CultureSouth Korea    Taiwanese Business Etiquette CultureTaiwan    Thai Business Etiquette CultureThailand       Vietnamese Business Etiquette CultureVietnam

Warning!

It is important to bear in mind that these guides act as basic and general introductions only. They are not in any way definitive. We do not intend to stereotype, pigeon-hole or try to quantify any culture or people.

Each society, country and culture will have numerous nuances that would make it irresponsible to suggest a uniform approach to understanding any country's social/business culture or etiquette. One also has to take into account the personal cultures of individuals, whether they be religious, regional, gender, corporate or otherwise. However, loose guidelines can assist in bettering understanding and avoiding offence; and these guides are meant only to achieve that.