{"id":1799,"date":"2026-06-30T12:42:11","date_gmt":"2026-06-30T12:42:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/corporate-movers-usa.com\/?p=1799"},"modified":"2026-06-30T12:42:11","modified_gmt":"2026-06-30T12:42:11","slug":"26-philly-students-are-tour-guides-pointing-visitors-around-town-this-summer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/corporate-movers-usa.com\/?p=1799","title":{"rendered":"26 Philly students are tour guides pointing visitors around town this summer"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<div>\n<div><audio><\/audio><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>Philadelphia students are among the friendly faces welcoming the expected more than 1 million visitors to the city this summer.<\/p>\n<p>Read more <a href=\"https:\/\/corporate-movers-usa.com\/?p=1797\">Florida shows how not to teach U.S. history on the republic\u2019s 250th anniversary<\/a><\/p>\n<div><\/div>\n<p>Youth from Ss.  Neumann Goretti High School and  Girard Academic Music Program are official staff greeting tourists and giving directions and Philly recommendations over six weeks. <\/p>\n<div><\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<p>Planning for the huge undertaking of celebrating America\u2019s 250th birthday in its birthplace began years ago, and Kathryn Ott Lovell, president and CEO of the Philadelphia Visitor Center Corporation, knew that she needed reinforcements.<\/p>\n<div><\/div>\n<p>\u201cIt was going to be hard to scale our mission and reach as an organization, short of building a visitor center on every corner,\u201d said Lovell. <\/p>\n<div><\/div>\n<p>Enter the Phambassadors, a corps of 10,000 Philadelphians who volunteer to be a welcome wagon of sorts for the tourists arriving in town, some of whom were trained via a Philly-themed boot camp. Lovell, who \u201cwas born with this irrational love for Philly,\u201d she said, arbitrarily picked the number 10,000, she said, hoping to attract that number of volunteers by the end of the year. Visit Philly got there months ahead of schedule.<\/p>\n<div><\/div>\n<p>And when Lovell heard that Neumann Goretti had launched a hospitality program, creating the Youth Phambassador corps felt like a natural extension, both as a way to expand the welcome wagon and a means to help develop the next generation of tourism and hospitality professionals.<\/p>\n<p>Read more <a href=\"https:\/\/corporate-movers-usa.com\/?p=1795\">Idina Menzel thinks Philly audiences are just her vibe<\/a><\/p>\n<div><\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<p>Lovell, Philadelphia\u2019s former Parks and Recreation Commissioner, wanted to make it a paid opportunity, a city summer program with training and a stipend for participating students. Twenty Neumann Goretti students signed on,  plus six  students from  GAMP, the South Philadelphia magnet school.<\/p>\n<div><\/div>\n<p>Training was held this month for the 26 Youth Phambassadors to learn both soft skills and hard skills \u2014 customer service, visitor engagement, and even citizen diplomacy via the World Affairs Council.<\/p>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>\n<div>\n<blockquote>\n<div>\n<div>\n<div> <\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div><svg><g><g><g><\/g><\/g><\/g><\/svg><\/div>\n<div>\n<div>View this post on Instagram<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<div> <\/div>\n<div> <\/div>\n<div> <\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div> <\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/blockquote>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<p>The Youth Phambassadors, who are working with an adult supervisor, are stationed both inside the Visitor Center at  Sixth and Market Streets and around the historic district.<\/p>\n<div><\/div>\n<p>The hope is to have the students show off the city, but also \u201cthat it\u2019s a portal into the hospitality and tourism world for the kids as they have a really wonderful experience,\u201d Lovell said. <\/p>\n<p>Read more <a href=\"https:\/\/corporate-movers-usa.com\/?p=1793\">Family that fled Ukraine leaving U.S. | Morning Newsletter<\/a><\/p>\n<div><\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Youth from Saints Neumann Goretti High School and GAMP are official staff greeting tourists and giving directions and Philly recommendations over six weeks. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1798,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1799","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.7 - 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