CT22 – Tourism Month! INTERVIEW: Jeff says “Choose to travel!”

Jeff, the founder of Experience It Tours, closes out “Tourism Month” with a bang. A veteran of many years running private tours in Morocco and beyond, Jeff casts a fresh light on the value of tourism around the world and how to do it well. We think you’ll agree when you hear him that his holistic view of doing tourism right makes a lot of sense. Experience It Tours is the parent company of Beyond Red Square making Jeff something like Andrew’s boss! . . . we think. Regardless, all our listeners will benefit from Jeff’s wonderful stories and strong encouragement to “choose to travel!”
Links for Episode 22
Experience It Tours
Morocco Tours
Experience It Oman
Beyond Red Square
Timestamps
2:10 – Quizzing Eli: Top Visited Countries
4:52 – Countries most reliant on tourism
6:26 – Eli & Andrew butchering facts and pronunciation
8:34 – Introducing the Interview
20:44 – Doing tourism the “right way”
21:14 – Not mass tourism (preaching it!)
22:36 – Buses pulling three-point turns.
23:01 – Be a cultural learner!
23:48 – STORY of cultural awareness
26:42 – Jeff on Experience It Tours
30:50 – Oman
31:45 – Like a Farmer’s Market: “It’s organic.”
33:18 – Choose to travel!