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.
Tour Guide Confidential
Peter Gokhvat - Activism in a Time of Crisis
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Dr. Eyal Dujovny
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Episode 6
For this episode, I drove down to Jerusalem to interview licensed tour Guide Peter Gokhvat, who has been camped out and on hunger strike across from the Knesset (Israeli Parliament) and the Finance Ministry for over 40 days. Soft-spoken and humble, Peter discussed his upbringing, immigration to Israel from the former Soviet Union and laid out the demands that tour guides have regarding the current coronavirus crisis and the need for a clear, government-backed, exit strategy. He also brought us up to date on his recent meeting with the Minister of Tourism and other Members of Parliament (42 in all) who have visited the protest encampment and the steps that the government is taking to address the crisis.