This is a simple presentation rendering the cultural and social background of Belgium with pictures. It says about their beliefs, etiquette, and festivals.Also Includes the morale and Education and career opportunities in Belgium. It also speaks about their dressing, travel and tourism, their polarities etc

1. Socio-cultural environment in
Belgium

3. Capital: City of Brussels or
Brussels
Dialling code: +32
ISO code: BEL
Currency: Euro
Official languages:
French, Dutch, German
Neighbouring countries:
France, Netherlands, Germa
ny, Luxembourg

4. Basic details to be known to start
up a business
• Family structure
• Festival Seasons
• Holidays
• Customs
• Etiquette
• Preferable product like
carpet, chocolate, beer
etc.
• Cost of living
• Tourist and travel
• Educational and career
related knowledge
• Traditional belief
• Clothing in traditional and
business environment
• Food culture
• Taboos
• Telecommunication&
hospitality
• GDP, NNP,PCI, Export
import relationship

6. Light festival in Belgium

7. Beer festival in Belgium

8. Customs and Etiquettes

9. Major products of Belgium

10. Video of scope in chocolate industry
and chocolate making video…

11. Education and Career Background

12. Traditional Belgian outfit

13. Frock

14. Casual Clothing (Female)

15. Casual Clothing and Accessories

16. Food culture

18. Cultural Taboos of Belgians
Behaviours to avoid:
• Addressing people from the
outset by their first name
• Making extravagant physical
gestures (backslapping,
hugging, etc.)
• Talking with your hands in
your pockets
• Pointing with the index finger
• Chewing gum or spitting in
public
• Asking personal or intimate
questions
Discussion topics to
avoid:
• What people earn
• Their political affiliations
(avoid politics altogether!)
• Community issues (Flemish
identity, Walloon dependency
on Flemish bail-outs, etc.)
• Religion
• Racial minorities
• Dress, appearance or weight

19. Cost of living and Money& Banking

20. Cost of Living of Belgians
• Credit cards are widely used and accepted in Belgium,
VISA is the most popular card, but MasterCard will also
be accepted in most outlets. American Express and
Diners Club are not as widely accepted.
• On Mondays to Fridays the majority of the banks are
open from 9am to 12pm and after a break, open again
from 2pm to 4pm. Some banks are also open on
Saturdays for a few hours in the morning and some
have one day a week were they have late opening after
4pm.
• Belgium has the largest number of bank branches per
head in the world. Furthermore, electronic banking has
become quite common within recent years. It is
possible to complete most banking transactions using
an ATM or online banking application.

21. Telecommunication and Health Care

22. Tourist and Travel

23. Belgium with other nations

24. Belgian Football Team

25. Thank You 
Presented by
• Tanmayee.T
• Sairah Begum
• Deepika.V
• Sashmitha
• Shravanthi.G
• Dharshini
• Diya Chandok
• Sri Darshini.R
• Sandya
• Vaishnavi.S