Tour Guide Confidential
Tour Guides tell the best stories and Tour Guide Confidential provides the showcase for Tour Guides to talk about this endlessly fascinating profession. Join us for interviews with some of the top-tier tour guides to hear about their unforgettable guiding experiences while learning about best practices from truly creative colleagues. Last, but not least, if you’ve ever wondered about what happens behind-the-scenes on a tour, listen in to Tour Guide Confidential where every week we will explore and discuss the challenges of working in the tourism industry and uncover some of its more opaque practices.
Podcasting since 2020 • 25 episodes
Tour Guide Confidential
Latest Episodes
Episode 25: Michelle Levitz - Educational and Experiential Tourism
Our guest, Michelle Levitz, is a tour guide based in Zichron Yaakov, Israel. Michelle shares her fascinating background, growing up in a multicultural home in New Jersey with a Yemeni-Israeli father and a mother from the United States. Her upbr...
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Adam Waddel - Educational Tourism in Factious Times
I had an interesting conversation with my friend and fellow tour guide Adam Wadell that touched on issues surrounding educational tourism as well as interfaith relations and guiding in the post October 7th world. In addition to our shared Ameri...
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Season 2
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Episode 24
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Haike Winter - Guides Volunteering in War Time
In this episode, tour guide Haike Winter, returns to Tour Guide Confidential to share her experience of volunteering in a dairy farm during the ongoing war between Israel and Hamas. Like all tour guides in Israel, Haike was left unemployed by t...
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Season 2
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Episode 4
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Anita Andziak - Virtual Tourism in the 21st Century
Anita Andziak is a Swiss-based tour guide and tour leader, PhD candidate and Virtual Tourism expert. Her passion is the combination of artificial intelligence and tourism. We sat down in January of 2022 to talk about the promises and pitfalls o...
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Season 2
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Episode 3
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Aliza Bellehsen Avshalom – Guiding Paths and People in Israel
In this episode, I sat down with Aliza Bellehsen Avshalom in her beautiful home in the Galilee for a wide ranging discussion based on her decades of experience as a tour guide in Israel. Among other topics, we talked about Aliza's fascina...
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Season 2
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Episode 2
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