Tour Guide Confidential

Tour Guide Confidential


Latest Episodes

Episode 25: Michelle Levitz - Educational and Experiential Tourism
May 24, 2024

Send us a textOur 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 u

Adam Waddel - Educational Tourism in Factious Times
February 06, 2024

Send us a textI 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 Am

Haike Winter - Guides Volunteering in War Time
January 11, 2024

Send us a textIn 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 b

Anita Andziak - Virtual Tourism in the 21st Century
January 17, 2023

Send us a textAnita 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 pitfall

Aliza Bellehsen Avshalom – Guiding Paths and People in Israel
December 22, 2022

Send us a text 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 fascinati

Yoni Shapira - Tourism: Turning Experiences into Memories
July 04, 2022

Send us a textIn this episode, Yoni Shapira shares his rich, decades long involvement in tourism. He recalls how, as an oceanography student, he entered into this field as well as his long model making career or life in miniature at Mini Israel and else

Tamar Linchevsky - Guiding the Hero's Journey
December 29, 2021

In this episode I met with Tamar Linchevsky, a consummate storyteller who has been guiding for some thirty years. Unique in her approach to guiding, she takes her guests on inner and outer journeys of discovery based on the ideas of Joseph Campbell'

Dr Eyal Dujovny - The Guide as Cultural Broker
November 11, 2021

In this episode, Tour Guide Confidential Host Dr. Eyal Dujovny has a conversation with Amir Katz and talks about his background and upbringing, how he got into guiding and what kind of a guide he is. Dr. Dujovny explains the impetus for this podcast, the

Elinoar Nitzani - Agricultural Tourism
July 08, 2021

I sat down with Elinoar Nitzani to discuss the fascinating trajectory that eventually led her to a career as a tour guide. A polyglot who guides in four languages, Elinoar shares her interesting perspective as someone who has, from an early age, lived in

Ori Unterman - Guiding Jerusalem From Local to Virtual
March 16, 2021

Send us a textIn this episode, I sat down with Ori Unterman, to discuss her rootedness as a 7th generation Jerusalemite and her passion for guiding in this truly unique, complex, and holy city. Few guides know the city as well as she does, and we discusse