Tours by Locals

Connecting travelers with local guides worldwide, since 2008.

ToursByLocals provides private tours for travelers through our carefully selected network of local tour guides, each of whom is keen to share their knowledge, experience and expertise.

The travelers we serve want to do unique things, experience the reality of a place and see its culture through the eyes of a local person. They are ‘sensibly curious’, socially conscious and value seeing their travel spending directly benefit the people who live in the communities they visit.

Our guides are entrepreneurial, passionate people proud of the places they live. Through them, we are able to offer a variety of tours, including ‘off the beaten track’ tours that reflect local culture and a diversity of traveler interests. We’re committed to helping our guide-partners be successful participants in the tourism industry. To do so, we actively search out and qualify new tour guides, train them to work with our system and business principles, and collaborate with them to develop unique tour offerings.

We are the ‘merchant of record’ for each tour sold and handle marketing, booking and payment processing, customer service and payments.

The ToursByLocals website offers many tours that can be purchased ‘off the shelf’, however each can be customized to fit a traveler’s specific needs. We showcase the personality and skill of each guide while providing for consistent elements between tour offerings – pricing is per tour, not per person, payment in advance and other standardized policies. We have a team of ‘Customer Experience Specialists’ in Vancouver, London and Delhi who are on hand 24/7 to help, in case problems arise.

Our mission is to provide high quality private tours everywhere people travel. We work every day towards that goal.