Atlas Studios

 A person that stood out to me was the film tour guide at the Atlas Studios in Ouarzazate. To me, this person painted a portrait of Morocco's potential to be at the forefront of best practices of tourism. We were met at the entrance of the secondary gate by our guide. Given that we had already seen some of the props displayed behind the gate, he quickly matched the props to the respective movies in which they were used, most of them famous. I was impressed by his ability to engage the group instantly. He apparently was keeping along with the times, and he knew the types of audiences that he was going to have. We then moved to an interior set in which the movie Kundun was shot. At the set, we were shown posters of other movies that were also shot here and learned about the actors that had worked on the sets. Other notable sets of films were Cleopatra, Game of Thrones, Grand Tour, The Passion of Christ and Babel to name a few. To supplement his narrative of the different sets, he showed us clips of the movies in which we were able to juxtapose between how the set looked in reality vs how it looked in the movies. The extra effort I believe showed his commitment to the satisfaction of the people that came to see the studio. In addition to this, his calculated jokes at different times during the tour were enjoyable and left me in wonder. His last words for us were to keep smiling, take it easy, be lazy, act crazy and don't take yourself too seriously.