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Matthew Jordan’s walking tours of Toronto skip the popular tourist sights like the CN Tower, Kensington Market or Yonge-Dundas Square. Instead, they explore the city’s ravine systems, its changing waterfront, or new areas being developed, such as the Port Lands.
Hidden Rivers Tours is a new type of walking tour that connects both travellers and locals to cities – and their issues – beyond the standard tourist attractions. It’s part of a broader movement of tourism for good, says Sonya Graci, an associate professor at the Ted Rogers School of Hospitality and Tourism Management at Toronto Metropolitan University.in response to overcrowding.
A portion of proceeds from ticket sales go to Stella Montreal, a community organization that works to improve the quality of life and work conditions for woman-identifying sex workers.An Invisible Cities tour guide leading a group on Womanby Street in Cardiff, U.K. The program trains people who have experienced homelessness to be tour guides and helps them develop tour itineraries.
The guides decide whether to share their experiences with homelessness, addiction, incarceration or discrimination, explains founder and CEO Zakia Maoulaoui Guery. Some “tend to add more and more details about their personal lives because they realize that people are quite nurturing and supportive, rather than being curious for the sake of it.”
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