In Episode 19, Season 3 of Brewing Travel shots the host Zinal Doshi is conversing with Dr. Shailaja Sharma, who has trained over 1,500 tour guides and tour leaders. She is a qualified trainer of the World Federation of Tourist Guide Association from London. She has designed and delivered various tour leadership programmes for travel corporates along with various tour guiding and leadership programmes for various state governments. Besides these, she has designed and delivered more than 35 training programmes for a range of stakeholders in the tourism industry, which include tour guides, tour leaders, tourist information officers, senior government officials posted in state tourism departments, cab drivers, travel agents, army personnel and so on. community projects such as the Swachh Bharat Abhiyan. PHD IN tour guiding , Authored books on tour guiding : Introduction to Tourism 

Sustainability is a beautiful balance between ecology and economy. And while there are many ways to achieve it, Dr Shailja Sharma brings one simple yet extremely effective way to do so- hiring local guides and tour leaders, not only to give you an authentic experience but to also help give back to their culture and community. 

To know more about Dr. Shailaja, you reach her on Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/dr-shailja-sharma-bb904116/

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To know more about the host Zinal Doshi you can reach her on Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/zinal-doshi/