Mohamed Nabil Arafa, Hopspitality and Events instructor/lecturer

Mohamed Nabil Arafa

Hopspitality and Events instructor/lecturer

Tourism college by Laureate vocational international

Location
Saudi Arabia - Riyadh
Education
Doctorate, Tour Guidance - Tourism
Experience
26 years, 1 Months

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Total years of experience :26 years, 1 Months

Hopspitality and Events instructor/lecturer at Tourism college by Laureate vocational international
  • Saudi Arabia - Riyadh
  • My current job since August 2018

•Trainer and Instructor at hospitality and events diploma department.
- Events planning
- Guest Relation Managment
- Marketing
- Self management
- Feasibility study
- Soft skills
- Business writing
- Registration and database
• Students Mentor
• Developing Training Materials
• Training Programs Assessor
• Supervising the grading process
• Quality Internal Verifier
• Field training

Director of Inbound Operations and Tourists' Affairs at Select Egypt Travel
  • Egypt - Cairo
  • March 2016 to July 2018

- Putting the company Annual Plan
-Managing Inbound Tourism Department
- Managing The Minamar Hotel in Baharia
- Managing the operations of Select Egypt Nile Cruise
- Supervising the Transportation Department
- supervise Cairo and Luxor branches
- Select and Train the company Tour Guides
- research and develop the knowledge for the tour operators and the tour guides
- history lectures for the tour guides
- KPI reports to the Chairman
- Creating activities and Treasure Hunt Games
- promoting touristic programs
- ticketing
- solving tourists Problem
- Managing tourists invoices
- Oversee all inbound operations
- Managing the Tourists relations
- All company Public relations and customer relation Management
- Giving special tours
- representing the agency in public conferences
and above all creating a good spirit among the team makes a big difference.

Director of Sales and Business Development at PMEC for training and publishing
  • Egypt - Cairo
  • March 2015 to July 2016

• Create and developing training materials with the R&D team
• Recommending the targeted customers
• Prepare the Annual Training budget
• Develop, implement and Monitor training programs according to ISO 29990
• Supervise the Training team and Staff.
• Provide performance feedback to the CEO.
• Assuring quality.
• Evaluate customer satisfaction and developing the public relations
• Managing trainers and experts.
• Lecturer and Trainer for the tourism, heritage
and visitors' engagement programs.
• Supervising translation and publishing for book fairs in GCC

Head of Museum Visitors' Services at Sheikh Faisal Al Thani Museum
  • Qatar - Doha
  • October 2013 to January 2015

- Planning the visit route for the tourists
- Participate and follow-up in the planning and implementation of events, exhibitions and important activities schedules, develop related future plans and schedules.
- Liaise with visitors and explain the different sections of the Museum; the Gulf history, Islamic civilization, ottoman, Persian monuments and carpets.
- Tour guides training for the Museum
- Supervising the Museum touring schedule
- Guiding the sheikh’s VIP visitors and Delegations to the Islamic Arts section
- Museum education programs for kids and visitors.
- following the ICOM standards.
- Representing the Museums in Seminars
- helping the team in managing mobile exhibitions
- Creating treasure hunt games for the visitors
- Liaise with visitors and school trips at the FBQ Museum to explain the Islamic art and monuments and give special tours to the great car collection.
- Provide ongoing support to the museum director with regard to policies, strategic plans and proposals for future development to achieve the museum vision and mission.
- Prepare and implement educational programs for the museum in coordination with the concerned departments and entities to develop and encourage museums visit.
- Participate and follow-up in the planning and implementation of events, exhibitions and important activities schedules, develop related future plans and schedules.
- Provide ongoing support to the museum director with regard to policies, strategic plans and proposals for future development to achieve the museum vision and mission.
- Develop and implement policies, procedures and processes for the museum.
- Prepare necessary studies and research to promote the museum.
- Attend conferences and meetings locally
- Prepare annual reports on the museum activities and achievements.

Director of Inbound Tourism and Operations at Select Egypt
  • Egypt - Cairo
  • February 2011 to June 2013

o Direct the activities and productivity of Tourism department
o Supervise Minamar hotel and Amalia Cruise Ship
o Provide training and guidance for Staff and tour Guides.
o Delegate duties such as typing, copying, and scanning.
o Create Touristic Schedules and tours to different Museums in Egypt
o Creating the Sales Plan and setting targets
o Support the organization's strategic Alliances and Partnership.
o Ensure performance goals are met and set.
o Participate in strategic planning.
o Represent the organization to the public, key stakeholders and business partner.
o Help create budgets and track expenditures.
o Customer Service and Handling problems.

Tour Guide and Historian - Egyptologist at Freelance
  • Egypt - Cairo
  • March 2001 to January 2011

- Tour guide at ministry of Tourism # 5407 year 2001
to guide in all the historical places and arts in Egypt (Museums, temples, Pyramids, Churches and Mosques etc.) for all types of visitors).
- worked for more than 5 local agencies and international agencies:
1- Travco: Africa Adventure Company AAC (kindly check the tour report of 2010)
2- Thomas Cook: Thomas Cook Holidays
3- Medi Travel: APT and Nature encounters
4- Creative Travel: Yalla Tours and ASA Tours
5- MG Travel: Travel in Style
6- Egy-Thai: Egy Thai
7- Astra Travel: Conferences and events
8- Excel Travel : Imagine Cup Event - Microsoft
9- Select Egypt: Safari Egypt and Online clients

Quality Control Manager at Select Egypt
  • Egypt - Cairo
  • January 2009 to January 2011

• Assesses the implementation of the Control Plans on the tours.
• Build cost and pricing models for new markets
• Allocates Quality Control personnel to the various tours.
• Supervises the tours and the tour operators, guides, leaders and drivers
• Oversee the tourist satisfaction level
• Evaluates the qualifications of company staff.
• Training sessions for the New tour guides
• Managing special tours and VIPs

Visitor Consultant - Tourism Lecturer at SQU
  • Oman - Muscat
  • February 2008 to June 2008

o Lecturing in the Tourism Department, Tourism studies, Sales, Marketing, Media and Tour Guidance.
o Lecturing the qualifications of tour guides program
o Training the Omani guides in Museums, Mosques and Castles

Tour Guides Trainer at Ministry of Tourism
  • Oman - Muscat
  • March 2008 to May 2008

Training the tour guides how to deal with visitors from different cultures
- soft skills
- islamic history
- cultures
- arts

Tour Leader/Guide at Rehalat Travel
  • Saudi Arabia - Riyadh
  • January 2003 to March 2003

Managing and guiding Japanese groups allover KSA

Tour Leader at El Salam Cruises
  • Cyprus
  • May 2002 to September 2002

guiding groups in all above mentioned countries

Tour operator and consultant at Creative Travel International
  • Egypt - Cairo
  • July 2000 to March 2001
Admin and Orgnizer at Opera House and Cairo film Festival
  • Egypt - Cairo
  • October 1997 to April 2000

Cairo Opera House
- college training
- Preparing for Opera Aida Luxor '97, Giza "98, Giza "99
- Assists Top VIP and the Presidential Compartment
- Registration Desk
- Assisting and guiding guests in the venue

Cairo International Film Festival "98 "99 "00
- Admin
- Meet and Assist
- Rooming Guests
- Tour Guide
- Press conferences

Education

Doctorate, Tour Guidance - Tourism
  • at Helwan University
  • March 2012

Religious thoughts at the Eastern Desert in Ancient Egypt. representing the practiced cult in the eastern desert though out the ancient Egyptian civilization. the thesis shows the main areas that could be great touristic attractions.

Master's degree, Egyptology
  • at Helwan University
  • July 2006

Basliophoric Names in the Old Kingdom and a study of the local saints in Ancient Egypt.

Bachelor's degree, Tourism- Tour guidance
  • at Helwan University
  • June 2000

4 years university studding history, art, archaeology, Tourism, heritage, photography, Museum studies (Pharaohnic and Islamic Museums). a full study of Ancient Egyptian, Coptic and Islamic History and archaeology.

Specialties & Skills

Dynamic Leader
Public Speaking
History
Communicator
Tour Management
soft skills
managment
public speaking
TV and Media talks
visitor engagment
guiding visitors
tourism
time managment
Leadership
lecturing

Languages

Arabic
Native Speaker
English
Expert

Memberships

IATM London
  • associate Member
  • January 2009
egyptian tour guides syndicate
  • Tour Guide
  • January 2001
Training and development organization
  • member
  • June 2015

Training and Certifications

3rd international conference of conservation and site management (Certificate)
Date Attended:
January 2016
Faculty of Tourism and Hotel Management (Sadat) (Certificate)
Date Attended:
January 2013
ICDL (Certificate)
Date Attended:
January 2008
acknowledgement from Oman ministry of tourism (Certificate)
Date Attended:
January 2008
Qatar museums for UNESCO meeting (Certificate)
Date Attended:
January 2014
Tour operator (Training)
Training Institute:
Creative Travel
Duration:
240 hours
TOT (Training)
Training Institute:
PMEC
Tour guide training (Training)
Training Institute:
A&K
Duration:
64 hours
Customer Service (Training)
Training Institute:
Pmec

Hobbies

  • chess
  • swimming
  • Art
  • museums and heritage
  • Islamic history
  • war and old cars documentaries
  • networking