Organizer

Smart Community Tourism

Email

info@scotwebinars.org

Website

http://www.scotwebinars.org

Date

Feb 08 2023

Expired!

Time

Jordan Time

12:00 pm - 1:30 pm

Languages

English

$Areej Shabib Aloudat is an Associate Professor at Yarmouk University in Jordan and holds a Ph.D. from the University of Bedfordshire in the United Kingdom in tour guiding. She has more than 12 years of expertise in teaching and conducting research in the area of tour guiding, tourism entrepreneurship, women in the tourism workforce, natural and cultural heritage management, tourist behavior, and quality assurance in tourism. She served as the Dean\'s Assistant for Quality Assurance and Accreditation for five years. She served as the Vice Dean for one year. Her responsibilities included heading the faculty team that received the (TedQual UNWTO) certification for the Tourism Management Program and creating curricula and study programs for undergraduate and graduate students. She has published a number of refereed journal articles and book chapters in first-ranked journals and reputable publishers.$	Areej Shabib Aloudat Moderator
	Maha Anabtawi Panelist
	Miguel Brito Panelist
	Rosemary Black Panelist
$Ms. Shuruq Alzahrani majored in History and Tourism and graduated from King Abdulaziz University in 2017, she worked as a tour guide at the World Heritage site of Historic Jeddah for three seasons. Completed her MA in World Heritage Studies at the University of Birmingham in 2021. Currently, she is an Assistant Specialist in the World Heritage Management Unit within the National UNESCO Heritage Conventions Center \$	Shuruq Alzahrani Panelist

Local Time

Timezone: America/New_York
Date: Feb 08 2023
Time: 4:00 am - 5:30 am

Satellite V 16

Name: Satellite V 25
Start: 2024-04-17
End: 2024-04-17

Tour guiding career and local community support: academia and practice

Tour guides are tourism professionals who interpret the attractiveness of their country including the culture, lifestyle, and natural landscape to visitors from abroad. The tour guides help the local culture stay alive because they safeguard local culture and heritage. By expressing the value of their destination they encourage local cultural preservation by both the local community and the tourists including the tangible and intangible cultural heritage.

Tour guides play a variety of functions while they introduce their region to tourists. They serve as cultural moderators, promoters of local products and services, and local community supporters.

This webinar brings together academia who are specialized / and practitioners of tour guiding to discuss the tour guiding career and its support to the local communities in tourism destinations.