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Gregory Thomas (X)
Gregory Thomas (X)
Verenigde Staten
Local time: 15:27
Engels naar Grieks
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Ok, so let it be on the record then... Jan 11, 2024

Christopher Schröder wrote:
I don’t work with agencies much but one of the world’s three largest agencies regularly pays me a $55 minimum for odd sentences. I charge double for weekend work. I haven’t worked at 12 cents a word since the 90s. Today I worked at twice that.


You're right! And it should have been this way across the board, for inflation alone.
Let it be on the record that you are currently working at around $0.24/word and $55 min charge, and double on weekends (your words), which roughly means about $200,000 annually without much pressure, and I'm just a negative loser.

Imagine the majority in here who think that 0.12/word is "too much, hard to believe"... I think you should be advising them first, not me.

Thanks
 
Julien Malagnoux
Julien Malagnoux
Local time: 22:27
Engels naar Frans
Talking about the hospitality/tourism field Aug 29, 2024

I have been dealing with tourism related translations (brochures, attractions, marketing, catering...) for many years, but 2 clients have decided to heavily rely on MT translation to cover their needs.
Do you think human translation has still a future in the tourism industry ? I can't find anything in this field right now.
 
Kay Denney
Kay Denney  Identity Verified
Frankrijk
Local time: 22:27
Frans naar Engels
. Sep 3, 2024

Julien Malagnoux wrote:

I have been dealing with tourism related translations (brochures, attractions, marketing, catering...) for many years, but 2 clients have decided to heavily rely on MT translation to cover their needs.
Do you think human translation has still a future in the tourism industry ? I can't find anything in this field right now.


Come to think of it, I haven't had very much at all in tourism lately and I used to get plenty. Well I suppose the endless factsheets listing the facilities in each bedroom for each different hotel can be handled almost exclusively with CAT tools and why not even AI.
But the cultural stuff, the descriptions of monasteries and cathedrals and other places of interest require such a lot of research and knowledge, I can't believe that humans can be dispensed with. Unless it's bots writing the source text blurb, in which case probably an 8 year old could proofread whatever a CAT tool might spew out.
 
Lieven Malaise
Lieven Malaise
België
Local time: 22:27
Lid 2020
Frans naar Nederlands
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Tourism Sep 3, 2024

Kay Denney wrote:
But the cultural stuff, the descriptions of monasteries and cathedrals and other places of interest require such a lot of research and knowledge, I can't believe that humans can be dispensed with.


Just an educated guess, but we've come a long way since the beginning of the digital and globalization age. How many translations of cathedral descriptions does one need? How many translations of websites of French regions (I've translated quite a few of those... over 10 years ago)?

A lot of that stuff already exists in translation, so I can imagine a lot is being recycled.

Kevin Fulton
 
Dan Lucas
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Verenigd Koninkrijk
Local time: 21:27
Lid 2014
Japans naar Engels
And tourism... Sep 3, 2024

... is discretionary spending. If people are struggling with the cost of living it will be one of the first things they cut back on.

Regards
Dan

Lieven Malaise
Jorge Payan
Kuochoe Nikoi-Kotei
Yasutomo Kanazawa
 
David Mossop
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Verenigd Koninkrijk
Local time: 21:27
Duits naar Engels
Huge drop-off in tourism-related texts Sep 4, 2024

Julien Malagnoux wrote:

I have been dealing with tourism related translations (brochures, attractions, marketing, catering...) for many years, but 2 clients have decided to heavily rely on MT translation to cover their needs.
Do you think human translation has still a future in the tourism industry ? I can't find anything in this field right now.


Tourism (DE-EN) was my bread and butter for most of my translation career - until the pandemic, when it went off a steep cliff and has never recovered since. I strongly suspect that a lot of my former (agency) clients are now using AI and MT to satisfy the much-decreased demand for these kinds of text.

Rachel Waddington
 
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