high turnover industry
Tour season is short in Mongolia as the summer season is the best time to travel in Mongolia. Since the business goes on few months a year and the rest of the year stays dormant or slow, it is difficult for companies to keep quality staff all year around. Seems like all companies have core group of people and the rest are part time employees, specially guides and drivers.
When it is warm and tourists come, everybody -students, guides, jeep and car owners, small cafes, big restaurants, horse owning herders, hand craft makers, hotels, artists, performers- makes money. So everybody in Mongolian travel industry is trying to keep the tourism season longer.