Mahmoud Barakat.
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Mahmoud Barakat

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Mahmoud Barakat

Digital Marketing & AI Transformation Consultant

Helping tourism and hospitality businesses grow through multilingual SEO, digital marketing, AI-assisted workflows and TravelTech platforms, with experience across Egypt, Spain and Latin America-facing markets.

Arabic: nativeSpanish: proficientEnglish: very goodPortuguese: good

Education

  1. 2023
    Master's in MarketingUniversidad de Granada, Spain

    Technologies for Marketing Research & Marketing. Thesis presentation: "Live Shopping Streaming."

  2. 2017
    Bachelor's in Spanish Language & LiteratureCairo University, Egypt

    The language base behind my work in Spanish and Latin American tourism markets.

Work history

  1. 2025 —
    SEO 4 ALLHead of Operations

    Operations and SEO delivery across client accounts.

  2. 2023
    CleanMove, SpainChief Analytics & SEO Officer

    Analytics and SEO strategy for a removals company serving the Spanish market.

  3. 2021 – 2022
    Be GroupSEO Team Leader

    Led SEO for client accounts and trained the team in SEO.

  4. 2018 – 2020
    Memphis ToursDigital Marketing Expert

    Digital marketing for an international travel agency.

  5. 2017
    Spanish Embassy, CairoInternship

Courses and certificates

Google Ads

Google Academy

SEO, SEM & Inbound

Udemy

DELE B2 (Spanish)

Instituto Cervantes

Courses and training given

  1. December 2024
    IOETI: Tourism-Focused Digital Marketing course

    Course covering SEO, digital advertising, content marketing and data analytics for the tourism sector, delivered for IOETI (International Organisation for E-Tourism Industry).

    Course announcement

  2. 2021 – 2022
    Be Group: internal SEO training

    Specialised SEO training for the agency's team, run alongside my role as SEO Team Leader.

    Be Group team page

Conferences and speaking

  1. 28 November 2024
    MSA University: guest speaker

    Session "E-Hospitality and Tourism: New Opportunities in the Job Market", at the Faculty of Management Sciences, on a panel of industry experts.

    University report · archived copy

  2. 2024 and 2025
    World Book Day, Instituto Cervantes Cairo: speaker

    Speaker at the Spanish cultural centre's World Book Day in Cairo, two years running. The 2024 edition (23 April) was dedicated to Inca Garcilaso de la Vega.

    2024 event page

  3. Spanish-language conference, Cairo University: coordinator

    Coordinator for an international Spanish-language conference at Cairo University, organised with Spanish academic and cultural partners.

Photos

Mahmoud Barakat speaking at MSA UniversityMahmoud Barakat at the podium, Instituto Cervantes CairoSEO training session with the Be Group team

What I am building

In development

Hotel House

A cloud PMS for hotels: inventory, reservations, rates and a booking engine, with a channel-manager sync layer.

Prototype

Reverse Travel

Travellers submit a trip request; agencies respond with comparable offers.

Concept / design

Tour Guide Marketplace

A platform connecting independent tour guides directly with travellers.

Tell me the site and the market.

You get a scoped proposal back, not a price list.

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