About the Project

 

Please watch our introductory film below:

 

 

Tourism in East London is set to grow in the run up to the Olympics. Tourism globally is already one of the world’s fastest growing industries with over two million employed in tourism-related industries in the UK. WORLDwrite aims to contribute to the growing interest in East London and all it has to offer by developing two new alternative East London tours. With direct input from young volunteers, these tours will form part of a programme that will be accessible online (in the form of interactive maps), on foot (as walking tours) and on film (as discursive and illustrative documentary shorts). The project is entitled London Behind the Scenes.

 

There are three component parts to the London Behind the Scenes project:

1. Developing alternative tours and tour guiding;
2. Making short documentary films;
3. Developing websites with interactive maps, text and photos for each tour, with the capability of showing the filmed documentary shorts.

WORLDwrite's tours will follow fixed routes and, in keeping with the charity's ethos and objectives, will promote international understanding. As such the tours will follow, explore and consider key themes of global significance. New insights and further debate will also be documented and presented in the films.

 

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