Today, tourism is developing fast and many people travel. Therefore, cross-cultural communication is required to facilitate them. In the hospitality industry, politeness is essential and that includes the use of language. This paper examines the strategies of the use of language among the tourism actors in the Lake Toba area, in Indonesia.This research employs a qualitative approach specifically a phenomenological study. Data were collected through observations, field notes, listening, recording, and in-depth interviews. Data analysis uses matching and distribution along with inferences and deep insights gained through empathy and understanding.The findings show that there are differences in the positive language politeness strategies used by the tour operators towards English-speaking foreign tourists and domestic tourists. For domestic tourists, strategies involve paying attention, using intergroup markers, showing praise and sympathy, providing assistance and promises, giving gifts, offering jokes, being optimistic, and giving reasons. With foreign tourists, optimism and joke strategies are not used. For them, positive politeness strategies involve showing respect, offering sympathy, persuasion, pleasing the tourists, familiarizing themselves, advising, and apologizing. These findings illuminate how language politeness is employed in the tourism industry and will help them improve them further.