Private guide search service. Offer for guides Rules for posting materials

Finding a good and inexpensive guide abroad is not an easy task and the last stronghold of travel agencies in individual sightseeing tours. Finding a ticket and a number in search engines is cheaper than taking in an agency, visa centers are already conducting visas. If you know how to correctly make the route of the trip, all that remains is to find suitable guides and your exclusive ride is ready.

You can search for a guide in the desired city using the Yandex or Google search engine. But the issue will be irrelevant, there is a lot of garbage and outdated information. It will take a long time to sift through the results. You will need to call or wait for an answer by mail, for a long time, sometimes to no avail. In the end, all the hassle may be in vain. It is better to use modern guide search services, the review of which is ahead.

If a guide in one of the European languages ​​is suitable for you

www.contexttravel.com. The service offers guided tours with scientists and specialists in various fields, including archeology, art history, cuisine, urban planning, history, environmental sciences. Associate professors, as the service calls them, combine their usual jobs as scientists and researchers and conduct in-depth walking workshops for small groups of intellectually curious travelers. If you want an expert look at a specific area of ​​expertise, this is the service for you.

Cons: this service does not offer Russian-speaking guides. The territory is limited to a few dozen cities.

Minus: Russian-speaking guides cannot be found here yet.

If you are looking for a Russian speaking guide or "our resident" abroad

www.localguiding.com. This service also offers contact with a local guide, so you can find the right guide very inexpensively, literally for a few dollars or euros. The service is comfortable and well debugged. Very quickly finds the location and the chosen language, immediately offering excursions, cost and prompt communication with the guide. In addition to guides and various excursions, the site offers short tours for several days, hiking, cycling and so on.

Minus: there are not a lot of Russian-speaking guides, but you can find it. In Europe, almost no problem.

www.getyourguide.com. This service does not specialize only in guides, here you can find in addition to excursions: tours, cooking courses, cruises, hop-on hop-off buses and much more. But there are guides too, you need to set up. First, in the top search bar, set the country or city. Then we scroll down the window a little and set the language - russian on the left in the column. We receive the issuance of all service options in Russian. Now we go up, on the left in the column we specify what we need: transfers, excursions, tours or cinema tickets.

Cons: the service enters into contracts with companies, not with private guides, so there are many multilingual excursions and tours in the range. As a consequence, in the issuance or guided tours at a higher cost or guided tours with headphones.

tourguides.viator.com. Part of the great viator.com service is finding tours and entertainment, it's easy to get lost in it. If you only need a guide - tourguides.viator.com will make it quick and easy to find the right person in the right place. The service offers both licensed guides and unlicensed guides. It is very convenient and fast to search, first enter the direction or city, then the language and you will get all the profiles. Some guides offer discounts on their excursions.

Minus: it is difficult to find a Russian-speaking guide in Asia.

www.excursiopedia.com Russian-language service created by our compatriots. Convenient, understandable, fast. Allows you to immediately search for excursions and guides. Offers other options for ground service, sports, adventure, educational.

Cons: the cost of excursions and services includes the commission of the Internet service itself. In the case of some kind of entertainment attraction, cruise or surf camp, this commission is included in the price of the service package. But if you only need a guide, it will cost you more.

www.shiroube.com. The service is still in beta testing. In the center of the page, set the language and country. The search engine finds our compatriots working as guides in all parts of the world: in the Canary Islands and in Thailand and in China. It also sorts the guides by gender, age, interests and allows you to contact them through its interface.

Minus: the search engine is still working with a slight creak.

www.privateguide.com. Rather, a bulletin board with the contacts of the guides. The contact base is decent. There are many guides and not only in Europe. Here you will find a guide both in Varanasi and in Casablanca.

Minus: the service is not perfectly debugged, it does not immediately understand what is needed from it.

What is the essence of our proposal?

Our offer is addressed to private guides who are interested in advertising their services on our travel site. We invite you to place information about yourself and your services on the site absolutely free!

As an example, we suggest you take a look at what it might look like. This page is just an example and does not represent a real guide.

Why cooperation with us can be beneficial for you?

Our project is a little over a year old, but during this period we have achieved good results. Already posted on our website:

• More 11 thousand messages(answers to popular questions from tourists, tips, vacation reviews, price information) and more 5 thousand comments to these messages
• Described in detail more than 1200 cities and resorts in all the most popular tourist destinations from more than 100 countries the world
• 50 thousand photos tourist places, 3 thousand video reviews about rest in various resorts, 6 thousand cards to help tourists

Every month our site is visited by order 300 thousand people... These are the people who are going on vacation and want more information on how to better plan their vacation. Information about your services would be very helpful for them.

How it works?

1. Registration on the site

The first thing you need to do is on the website. This process will only take a couple of minutes of your time. After registration, go to your personal account, where you can upload your photo, customize your avatar and fill out the section with contact information:
At this stage, your personal page will look very modest and will not give you a result. But this is not for long, go to the next step.

2. Design of the personal page of the guide

Now you need to activate the partner functions. To do this, use the user menu and go to the "Partnership" section. We offer our partners to decorate their personal page with a text with a greeting and a brief description of the services provided. To do this, use the "Edit greeting and service description" button on the partner's main page or the "About me" tab in the partner's menu.

Your personal page is your business card on this site. Take this step seriously.

Now that you have your personal page on our site, you can add information about your excursions that you would like to offer our visitors. To do this, go to the "Services Offered" section of the partner interface.

You can add an unlimited number of excursions to our site. Information about them will be published both on your personal page and in the corresponding sections of the site.

You've already done enough to get our visitors noticed, but there is much more you can do to attract the attention of potential customers to your services. This is not difficult to do.

The essence of our partnership is that you help us by publishing useful information for tourists, and in return we help you in promoting your services.

So, in addition to your promotional offers, you can post other information (answers to popular questions from tourists, tips for tourists, reviews about vacations), as well as comment on other people's posts, complementing them with your thoughts. This contribution will do you two good things:

Firstly, next to each of your messages and comments, your name and a link to your personal page will be displayed. Interested site visitors can go to your personal page and see your proposals.

Secondly Every message you post increases your personal rating. This rating is very important in cases where we publish on one page offers of several guides at once. For example, when we have 30 proposals for excursions in Prague from 5 guides, then the first places will be taken by the proposals of those guides who have a higher rating on our website.

But don't think that the top rated guide will get all the top spots on the list. As a rule, the best guide will get the first 1-3 places in the general list of proposals. Therefore, you do not need to be the best of the best for information about your offers to get to the first or second page of the section. Your offers will be visible even if you have a zero rating. In addition, for beginners, we have a bonus rating that weakens over time.

We do not publish the formula for calculating the rating for each guide, and we do not explain exactly how it affects the sorting of offers in the general list, however, your activity on the site, the quantity and quality of your posts will help you in promoting your services.

Rules for posting materials

All messages on our site are moderated according to the rules below. Messages that violate these rules will not be published.

1. General rules for all messages on the site:

1.3. It is forbidden to mention other guides and travel companies for organizing excursions. It is forbidden to compare your own and someone else's prices for services.

1.4. All messages must be written in Russian, in compliance with basic spelling rules.

2. Rules for publishing information about your services:

2.1. At the moment, it is allowed to publish information only about individual and group excursions.

2.2. Each service you offer should have a detailed description. The minimum message size is 200 characters.

3. Rules for publishing answers to questions, advice, feedback and comments:

3.1. It is forbidden to copy messages or individual offers from other sites. Each of your messages should be unique.

3.2. Your message should be relevant to your chosen topic.

3.4. It is forbidden to publish photos with logos of other sites or signatures. This rule does not apply to video materials.

3.5. Each published comment should contain useful information on the topic of the commented post.

Still have questions?

We look forward to a long and fruitful cooperation with you. If you have any questions, problems, or other suggestions regarding our cooperation, then write to us by mail: [email protected]

Friends, not so long ago I did a review of the Russian-speaking one. This is a real library of knowledge for everyone who is going to travel! What can I say, the daily traffic of the site tourister.ru of more than 50 thousand people speaks for itself)).

Experts.Tourister.Ru is a service search for private guides... It makes it possible to find a Russian-speaking guide for an excursion in an unfamiliar country, a shopping guide for shopping, an interpreter, etc. - in short, experts in their field of tourism-related services.

In fact, being accompanied by a guide in an unfamiliar country almost always saves a lot of time, effort, and even money. It is one thing to spend time working out the route, exploring the sights, then looking for streets on the map, etc., and it is quite another thing when a person takes you along the optimal route, tells and shows everything himself. Beauty and only))

The service has an impressive base of experts: 227 private guides are ready to provide their services in 46 countries of the world! By the way, these figures are increasing every month.

Each expert has his own personal page on the service. This is how, for example, one of them looks like:

You will find the following information on the guide's page:

• in which country of the world and cities does it provide services (section "geography of excursions")
• what kind of services he is ready to provide (section "specializations")
• a detailed description of the excursions and tours (duration in time, cost, what is included, etc.)
• contact details of the guide
• a calendar of the guide's busyness, where you can immediately see information about which days he is busy or free

On an independent journey, finding a guide is considered by many to be an optional and even unnecessary task, because a city map can be taken at any hotel, and you can find out the history of the Colosseum on Wikipedia. And guidebooks, in the end, have not ceased to be released, now even in the form of applications for smartphones. But a guided tour is not necessarily an old-fashioned move from cathedral to museum and museum to cathedral. A good guide will allow you to correctly prioritize when planning your visit to a city or country, to look into places that guidebooks do not write about, or just find out more about the place you are visiting. Editorial staff along the way I tested on my own experience several ways to get on an excursion in Russian and English in an unfamiliar city, and here are our recommendations.

Where to find a good guide

• on a free group city tour;
• on the Internet on sites for online booking excursions;
• on a paid group or individual excursion, which can be purchased directly on the spot.

1. Participation in a free group city tour

In almost any city that attracts a more or less stable tourist flow, there are free group tours in local, English and sometimes other languages ​​popular in the region (maybe you know them better than English). Somewhere in order to participate in them, preliminary registration is required online, but often it is enough to come to the right place at the right time, which Google and its colleagues will easily prompt for "city" + "free tours". So, for example, every day at 11 a.m. a man with an orange umbrella will be waiting for you in London at the Churchill monument for an excursion to the royal palaces, and every Saturday at 10 a.m. you can join a tour of the New York quarter of Greenwich Village, where they lived, drank and the beatniks and rock stars of the 60s worked. At the end of the excursion, participants are usually asked to independently evaluate the work of the guide and determine the cost of the tour.

In addition to the obvious economic attractiveness, it is also worth noting the high quality of such excursions. As a rule, the guides are really in love with the city and conduct extremely exciting tours. Also, the organizers are interested in the fact that free excursions do not disappoint tourists, since such tours are an excellent marketing tool.

The downside to free tours is the lack of flexibility. If the time of the tour or the route is not suitable for you, you will have to select another option for exploring the city. Also, you will not be able to enjoy the excursion if you do not speak English at a high enough level.

2. Booking an excursion on the online service

Over the past few years, several platforms have emerged that act as intermediaries in finding a guide. When organizing a trip, we recommend that you study and compare the offer in the city you need on several sites. If you are satisfied with the guided tour in English, you can use international resources:

We will consider the main services aimed at finding a Russian-speaking guide:

• Experts. Tourist.

The slogan of the Tripster project: "Unusual excursions from local residents." In fact, on the site you can find both quite standard sightseeing tours, and really outstanding offers for travelers who are no longer interested in a walk around the main attractions. At the time of publication of the article (June 2015), the site had more than 2 thousand excursions in 307 cities. Tripster is simple and easy to use. To organize a trip you need:

• choose a city;
• choose an excursion (description of the tour and reviews from other travelers are available);
• place an order indicating the date and any additional questions to the guide;
• get confirmation and answers to questions from the guide;
• pre-pay 16% of the tour cost.

After confirming the order, it becomes possible to communicate with the guide by phone or e-mail. We also note the presence of special projects and offers. We were especially impressed by the Moscow course "Six meetings on architecture for people who are not used to being interested in it." There is also a section "Travel Community", where you can get an answer to a question from local residents and other tourists.

Editorial staff along the way used Tripster on one of my recent trips and was pleased with both the service and the guide. At the time of preparing the material, the service had only one drawback that we noticed - a small coverage.

Experts Tourist

The "Experts" project is a part of the multifunctional resource Tourist, where you can find everything on the topic of travel: from travel blogs to the service of ordering a taxi from the airport. According to the creators of the service, the project "Experts" allows you to find not only a guide, but also simply "your own person in Havana": an interpreter, a shopping guide, an expert. According to the information on the website as of February 2015, the service offers more than 12.5 thousand excursions in 114 countries. Verification by the editors along the way in selected areas raises doubts about the realism of these figures. So, for example, the service says that there are 32 excursions in Zagreb, although not a single company or a private guide from this city is registered on the site. However, some destinations are indeed much better represented than on Tripster - for example, the countries of Southeast Asia (Thailand, Indonesia, Cambodia).

Unlike Tripster, which is primarily aimed at travelers interested in unusual excursions, the Experts.Tourrister project is organized to become an attractive promotional tool for travel agencies and private guides. Each guide has its own page, like in a social network, which contains a list of excursions, reviews of other tourists, the guide's story about himself, contact information, copies of licenses and certificates. Having chosen a direction, the user sees a list of guides and travel companies offering services in a given city, and a short information about each guide: the number of excursions and reviews, knowledge of languages, availability of documents confirming professional suitability. Description of excursions can be seen only after going to the guide's page. You can send a message to the guide through the website or contact directly - the contact phone number and email address, as a rule, are indicated on the guides' pages. Also, the service allows you not to choose a guide right away, but place an application for an excursion, indicating the city, date and number of participants.

Advantages of the service Experts. Tourist is a large selection of standard sightseeing tours, a large amount of information about the guides, the ability to immediately contact the guide directly by phone or e-mail.

In our opinion, Experts. The tourist is less attractive for experienced travelers interested in non-standard excursions, but it certainly won't let you get lost in a foreign city.

In addition to these sites, there are several more similar ones with Russian-language excursions:,.

3. Purchase of an individual or group excursion on site

For those who do not like to plan every day of travel in advance, there is always the possibility of purchasing a tour on the spot. Booklets advertising excursions can almost always be found in hotels and hostels, the main tourist spots of the city. Travel agency offices are often located on the main streets of the city and near attractions. As a rule, you can sign up for a group excursion in a day or two. Editorial staff along the way Thus I went on day trips around the city, and to neighboring cities, and even to neighboring countries. Sometimes with the help of booklets in the hotel you can find unusual offers - for example, bike tours or themed tours. Refusing to pre-plan excursions, you should take into account the following risks:

• a small number of tours in Russian (except for destinations with a large flow of tourists from the CIS countries);
• low availability of private tours during the high tourist season due to the large number of preliminary requests;
• an incomprehensible situation with the quality of such tours - the guides are not motivated either by reviews on the Internet, or by payment according to the principle “I liked it, I didn’t like it”; in fact, there is no one to ask about the quality.

Summing up, we note that none of the options considered is better or worse than the others. Choose the one that is most convenient for you.

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A guide to travel and entertainment in Russian cities, with which you can plan a route, find interesting sights, choose a hotel, restaurant, fitness club or climbing wall. The application includes author's city guides from famous artists, chefs, athletes, designers, journalists, bloggers. For example, a guide to the city's best Asian restaurants, a day trip itinerary, or a selection of longboarding spots.

Now there are 29 cities on the site. In the near future, the developers plan to add all the cities of the Golden Ring of Russia.

2. Altourism

Social entrepreneurship project. Travel to the Russian outback, which the service offers, is a mixture of accommodation with social activity, as well as an opportunity to plunge into the life of the local population, to support them in initiatives that help the development of their native village or small town.

Now the site offers, for example, to help restore a 17th century chapel, organize a holiday for children in the Kaluga region, or contribute to the improvement of the town of Tutaev (Yaroslavl region).

3. RussiaDiscovery

The company organizes unusual holidays throughout the country. For example, with their help, you can go to look at the northern lights or go to a corporate party to Lake Baikal or Adygea. Tours can be sorted by region or activity (sightseeing tour, jeep tour, snowmobile safari, mountain climbing, etc.).

4. WikiPlanet

The aggregator of "package" tours in Russia (there are more than 5000 offers on the site) with the possibility of instant booking and its own manager of room stocks is instantly updated information on all available offers. Focused on Russian hotels, holiday homes, boarding houses.

As the creators assure, they strive to simplify the process of buying vouchers - in order to go on a trip, "you only need to know the voucher number and have an identity document with you."

5. Travelata

This "online hypermarket" offers package tours not only in Russia, but more and more Russian resorts appear on the site, and there is also a separate page with excursion tours around the country. In 2014, Travelata raised $ 7 million from MCI Management and EBRD, including funds for expansion into the regions.

6. Excursiopedia

Service for ordering excursions. There are both international and domestic destinations - from Vladivostok to Kaliningrad. Payment takes place after the event is confirmed by the guide, everything can be done online, and on the excursion you only need to have a printed voucher with you.

7. TourBazaar

Online auction of tours. Lots in TourBazaar are formed package offers of holiday homes, boarding houses and country hotels. There are many proposals for Russia. Rumor has it that the trip can be bought for a ruble.

8.

A little over a year ago, the Tutu.ru service launched a new service - online tours sales. Offers across Russia.

The main services provided by the service are the purchase of air and railway tickets, an updated transport schedule. For example, the train schedule is proposed for 17 cities.

9. VIVAster

A platform for ordering excursions around the world, a little more than 500 options are presented in Russia. Recommendations and ordering of group tours are available.

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Car rental in the cities of Russia. Model - P2P car sharing, when an individual can rent out his car. True, a little more than five hundred cars have been registered so far, which is not enough on a national scale.

14. TopTripTip

This is a guide to the regions of Russia with offline access. Contains information about attractions and infrastructure facilities, tourist routes, a calendar of significant events and events with a reminder function, audio tours, photo galleries, and a recommendation service. Two language versions of the content are available (Russian and English; for Moscow and St. Petersburg, there is also a Chinese interface). The database of objects, events and routes is being updated.

15. Yell.ru

Yell, according to the developers, already contains 1 million reviews of 2 million companies throughout Russia.

16. Mere

An application that makes a list of "tasks" for walks and monitors their implementation. St. Petersburg and Suzdal are accessible from Russian cities.

17. Strana

Guide to Russia. Contains the history of cities, a poster, a rating. The "Travel Wizard" service is available, where you can choose an interesting tour or excursion and leave a request. For those who are in search - a rating of cities and places in Russia where you can plan a trip.