We are pleased to announce the next Travel Massive Glasgow event on Tuesday 25th June 2019, at 6:30pm.
Venue: The Village Hotel Glasgow, 7 Festival Gate, Glasgow G51 1DB
Zakia Moulaoui – From Homelessness To Tour Guide: The Story Behind This Amazing Social Enterprise (approx 30 min)
Lead by Chris Torres, Zakia will discuss how she came up with the idea of a global social enterprise that trains people who have experienced homelessness to become walking tour guides of their own city and offers alternative walking tours to tourists and locals.
After moving to Scotland 11 years ago, Zakia started working in international development, mainly with organisations supporting people who have experienced homelessness or have been displaces. She was Director of International Partner Development at the Homeless World Cup Foundation for several years before taking time out to travel to Greece and volunteering in a refugee camp on Lesvos Island.
Since launching in the Scottish Capital in 2016, Invisible Cities now also operates in Manchester and Glasgow with further plans for expansion to York and other UK cities. For more information visit www.invisible-cities.org
Zakia loves travelling and hope to take Invisible Cities to the International stage.
Sean Galloway – What Makes An Attractive Tour (and how we select & curate tours) (approx 30 min)
Chris will be chatting with Sean on how ToursByLocals curates and selects tours for their platform and gives his take on what makes a good tour. A must for all tours and activity operators.
Sean has had a varied career starting in the military, from there he spent 10 years with HSBC Bank plc covering a variety of roles including Customer Sales and Service Rep, Retentions Advisor, Team Manager and Specialist Trainer. He then moved in to Recruitment where he enjoyed a successful career for 5 years.
Sean decided to make a change and joined ToursByLocals as a Tour Experience Coordinator where he gets great pleasure in helping tour operators and his team self discover through smart coaching to develop personally and professionally.
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Food: Nibbles and drinks on the night from SocialBite
