Tourists travel with local guides for the best travel experience
“ToursByLocals” official website
Recently, according to Foreign media reported that the travel platform” ToursByLocals “ Ten Thousand Canadian Dollars ($ 25 million) Financing , invested by a single investor, Tritium Partners. Tritium Partners is a private equity firm focused on the travel market. This new funding is the first external funding for ToursByLocals.
ToursByLocals was co-founded by Paul Melhus, Dave Vincent and Luciano Bullorsky and is headquartered in Vancouver, Canada. Since its establishment, “ToursByLocals” has continuously improved the company’s business level and already has 1.45 million customers. Today, the company has about 100 employees.
The startup company “ToursByLocals” is a travel platform that includes services such as recommended travel routes and recommended guides. Unlike some of the solicitation guides that tourists encountered in the past, “ToursByLocals” ensures that platform guides are locals of the attractions , and most of them are not from tour guide companies. They are familiar with the local environment and are warm and credible. .
YouTraveling with a local guide is the way to get the best travel experience. Since its inception, ToursByLocals has been committed to creating truly memorable travel experiences for travelers.
“ToursByLocals” official website
The “ToursByLocals” website There is a “FIND A GUIDE” platform , users can directly enter their own travel location, travel time, and itinerary to find the corresponding guide.
ToursByLocals currently finds local guides in approximately 162 countries or territories, and then helps tourists search and book the attractions they want to visit. Tourists can find about 4,130 professional travel guides and 30,000 different tour groups on the “ToursByLocals” platform.
The “ToursByLocals” Payment steps are similar to domestic Alipay . Customers pay to the “ToursByLocals” platform first. After the tour is over, the tourists confirm the payment. “ToursByLocals” will establish direct contact with each tour guide to ensure and safeguard the interests of both tour guides and tourists.
ToursByLocals will use the new funding to hire more talent, develop its proprietary booking, payment and comment publishing technology, and expand the company’s business development team.