In recent years, startups have been rapidly conquering the travel market: Uber has long won a niche from the traditional taxi, and vacation rentals are replacing the usual hotels. But that's not all - with the help of online platforms, travelers can easily find a guide among local residentswho will gladly introduce you to the country from the inside. We have selected seven of the most interesting online services and applications.

Tours by Locals

Online platform Tours by Locals over the nine years of its existence, it has managed to unite more than 2,000 guides and cover 159 countries. Only very small areas of shallow lagoons remain undeveloped, for example, Crooked Island, an island that is part of the Bahamas.

Here travelers can either suggest their own route to the guide or choose an existing one. For example, for those who prefer quiet and secluded places, the service offers an eight-hour excursion to the picturesque edges of the South Island of New Zealand. The journey begins at Akaroa Cruise Port with a meeting with a local guide. The program includes a tour of almost all the picturesque landscapes of the Canterbury region - in eight hours, tourists will see the Rakaia Gorge, Coleridge Lake, Porter Pass and Crustchurch, the third largest city in New Zealand. In addition to exploring the Southern Region, the program also includes a traditional dinner. The national cuisine of the country is represented by exotic Maori dishes - fried scorpions and larvae, snails and sheep's eyes.

There are also less intricate routes on the online platform - for example, excursions to the main attractions of Western Europe. The site has the opportunity to order both a group tour and an individual one. Accordingly, the price will depend on the choice - usually it does not exceed $ 100 per person.

Show around

The Show Around online platform is considered one of the leading travel startups: the service has gathered more than 80 thousand local residents under its wing and is already available in 204 countries.

Unlike a number of other similar services, Show Around performs only one function - it finds a guide. The route of the excursion is planned after choosing a temporary companion, there are no ready-made options here.

Perhaps the main advantage of the platform is the business cards of local guides. Here you can find literally everything - detailed information about the interests and knowledge of the culture of the region of each registered guide.

The tourist can rate his guide, as well as write a comment. “It keeps the guides on their toes and creates conditions for healthy competition that motivate people to work hard,” says Show Around founder Linas Sablowski.

The average price of a tour is about $ 15 per hour.

Show Around has had an iOS app for a long time, and recently a mobile service has become available for Android users as well.

Shiroube

The approach of the Japanese online service Shiroube is somewhat different from the others - first of all, a tourist chooses a section of interest, for example, “Art and History”, “Nature and Adventure”, “Food and Wine”, and only then starts looking for a guide. Using the site is very simple: there is an advanced search that allows you to select the language, age and even gender of the guide. Each guide has its own profile, where tourists can see photos, main interests and suggestions.

There is no base of ready-made excursions here - the local guide comes up with a personal route for each client. However, the developers of the service still collect some statistics, for example, the website regularly updates lists with the most common locations and recommendations. So, during a trip to Shanghai, locals suggest walking along Nanjing Street and trying dumplings - a dish similar to dumplings, but cooked according to an old Chinese recipe.

The service is focused on a fun pastime with visiting nightclubs, various workshops and non-tourist pubs, and the price of a tour usually does not exceed $ 400 for a group of four.

The creators of Embark.org have chosen a narrower niche for themselves - the service is suitable for lovers of outdoor activities and extreme sports. As noted by the developers, the platform is more focused on building a community with one common interest - a passion for active travel. As a result, the creators managed to combine business with pleasure - to unite fans of extreme tourism and give an opportunity for non-professional guides to earn money.

This platform is good because it gives you the opportunity to find a person who organizes you leisure even in the center of a big city. For example, together with a guide, you can try yourself in rock climbing in the Fontainebleau forest, the road to which from Paris will take no more than 40 minutes. Half of all offers are excursions for several days. The service offers extreme activities such as three days rafting in India, kayaking in Croatia and an eight-day hike to the peak on the border of Valle d'Aosta and Piedmont in Italy, all in the company of a local guide who knows his business.

The site also has a blog where travelers share their experiences, which will help you choose from a variety of options what is right for you.

Guide prices start at $ 80 per person per day.

The online platform Vayable, launched just last year, has already earned the attention of The New York Times, CNN and The Wall Street Journal.

The service is focused on the central cities of Western Europe and Great Britain. The developers approached the project thoroughly: local guides will not only tell, but also teach. For example, one of the proposals is a course on photography of Paris at night. The guide will lead tourists around the Latin Quarter and the Seine River, and also tell you how to take good night portraits.

Rent a Guide

Rent a Guide, a German startup, offers guide services for all kinds of holiday activities - from dining in the best national traditions on the 123rd floor of the Burj Khalifa to a hot air balloon ride or jeep safari in the Arabian deserts. For those who love walking, Rent a Guide will prepare tourist excursions to the capital cities of Western and Eastern Europe.

The hot air balloon ride will cost $ 300, and the jeep safari will cost $ 45.

Airbnb, an online rental platform, launched the Trips project relatively recently - last fall. At the moment, the service operates in 12 cities and offers more than 500 excursions. The startup is more focused on recreational activities that locals can talk about. For example, you can visit a violin workshop in Paris, drive vintage cars, and even take part in a marathon in Kenya.

“We want to return to travel an element of magic, in the center of which are people,” - said the head of the company Brian Chesky.

In addition, here you can try yourself in charity and take part in socially significant events, such as helping stray dogs and a master class on creating art from garbage.

Unlike other online platforms, Trips has a highly functional app, so with Airbnb and its new service, you can plan your trip from start to finish.

In our advanced age, it has become possible to find excursions in almost any country in the world in Russian without leaving home. In this article I will consider how this business works and how it all works, how you can find your excursion with a minimum of cost and maximum pleasure.

Aggregators conquer the world. Probably almost everyone knows that it is most convenient to search for air tickets on aggregator sites, but the service sector does not stand still. In our post-industrial time, services come to the fore.

Yes, in major European cities you can find yourself an excursion in Russian right on the street or in your hotel, but as a rule the range will be very limited to 2-5 excursions in Prague. And just one of the aggregator sites offers 168 excursions in Prague and the surrounding area at once, and the choice is huge. I here mention Prague just for specifics, in fact, excursions in a hundred or more cities of the world are presented on aggregators. Before a trip, you usually want to understand how much excursions cost in the city of your destination; excursion aggregator sites will easily sort you by prices.

You can join group tours or book an individual excursion. If you are traveling with a family or company, in many cases an individual excursion will not become more expensive for you, but it will become more pleasant many times over. It is one thing to ride a huge bus as part of a group of 20-60 people, and quite another thing to go in a small minibus and listen to a guide in a group of 4-5 people. In such conditions, there are many more opportunities for easy communication and new discoveries.

On the site-aggregator of excursions you can choose for yourself both standard sightseeing tours around the city and the nearest suburbs, and something unusual and exotic such as "Secrets of Prague Brewers" or "Prague: Following the Trail of Blockbusters". Agree that such excursions are not sold on every corner.

I'll tell you more about the four tour aggregator sites so you can choose the best options. It often happens that the same tour is sold on different sites at different prices, you will have the opportunity to buy it at the best price. Plus, the range of excursions on different sites is different. If you want to immediately start choosing, see the excursions on the following sites:

Tez Tour is a very well-known, well-established company in the Russian market. They offer excursions at reasonable prices, but the range of countries is not great, but these are the favorite countries of Russians. Tez Tour has its own guides and companies with whom they work abroad. It is not necessary to print the voucher, it is enough to show the ticket in your smartphone.

Sputnik8 and Weatlas offer standard options: city sightseeing tours, day trips out of town, and guided museum visits. But you need to go to Tripster to get creative, their offers are significantly different from the usual set. You need to look for an excursion in this order. First on Tez Tour, check the same on Weatlas and Sputnik8.

All sites-aggregators of excursions, except for Tez Tour, work on the same principle. They invite private guides to register on the site and post descriptions of their excursions. The site is an intermediary and guarantor of the quality of the provision of services between you and the guide. Travelers can leave reviews about the excursions and guides they visited, which allows the next tourists to make their choice more consciously.

You should only trust reviews on sites that real consumers of services can leave. Usually, the site on which the excursion was ordered sends a letter to the client with a request to leave a review (the well-known booking, hotel booking works in the same way). This scheme allows you to collect truthful reviews about excursions. On all sites where anyone who registers can leave a review, all reviews are written by copywriters who have never used the service they leave a review. I have been working as a webmaster for 15 years, I know this whole kitchen firsthand.

Most excursions must be booked at least 36 hours in advance. But if you have serious intentions, I would advise you to start interested in excursions at least a week before your intended trip. Some excursions are held only 2-3 times a week, i.e. planning will keep you from missing out.

Find excursions from Sputnik8

Sputnik8 is a St. Petersburg project, headquartered on Vasilievsky Island, so Petersburgers can support a local manufacturer and book excursions on their website. Only the Sputnik8 website will show you their schedule by days of the week, the time of the tour, the number of reviews right on the page of the list of excursions. The site contains a large number of group excursions to which you can join, this is the cheapest and most proven format.

Find Tripster Tours

Tripster stands apart from the first three sites. The first three sites offer excursions from certified professional guides, while they offer excursions from Russian-speaking locals. Only these people will be able to guide you through the ruin-pubs of Budapest, show you flamenco in Barcelona, \u200b\u200bnot in a theater for tourists, but in bars for local residents and provide the most informal communication. What could be more interesting than gossip from locals. Moreover, non-professionals tend to try very hard, this more than compensates for the lack of experience.

Our compatriots, coming out from behind the Iron Curtain, conquered the whole world. Many of those who left found themselves in a new place of residence in the field of tourism and offer their own programs that will allow you not only to see the sights declared in the excursion, but also to talk about life outside the burg with the direct participants in this life, to receive invaluable advice on further independent exploration of the city.

All Tripster tours are individual, group tours are not featured on this website.

Find excursions from Weatlas

Weatlas is a Moscow project, the main office is located in the capital. Now the database of excursions on the site is larger than that of competitors, and much more. Therefore, the site has a convenient search system for excursions by topic, mode of transport, price and even user ratings. The first page shows only the most popular excursions, use the search, you will find much more.

Weatlas signed contracts with City Sightseeing Tour buses in 18 cities around the world, where there is a translation into Russian. This is a popular way to get to know an unfamiliar city in a short time. As a rule, these buses offer an unlimited number of entrances and exits during the day for which you bought a ticket, they will take you past all the significant sights of the city, and through headphones you can listen to a city tour in Russian.

Find excursions on GetYourGuide

This is a German office with headquarters in Berlin and Zurich. On the GetYourGuide website, you can find not only excursions, but also buy tickets to museums, parks and other tourist attractions around the world. Prices in Europe there can be significantly lower than on Russian sites. The interface has been translated into Russian, tickets for excursions are not required to be printed, you can display them from the smartphone screen. But you need to be careful, many excursions are conducted only in English, always pay attention to the language.

In some countries with expensive public transport, such as the Netherlands, it is sometimes cheaper to take a GetYourGuide in English than paying for independent tripthen it will work.

Many independent travelers have long mastered the skill of organizing excursions on their own, but such events do not always take place in the most informative way. Sightseeing tours bought from agencies can result in a fairly large amount, and walking in a crowd of tourists, trying to catch at least a fraction of the information is not always comfortable. Therefore, today excursions from local residents are gaining more and more popularity. This option is very convenient, because it assumes an individual approach, takes into account all the wishes of the tourist and, in general, can carry much more interesting information than a standard excursion from a guide. Where to find local residents who know everything about their city, and how to order a tour from them, we will tell you in detail in our article.

What is Tripster?

In 2013, an interesting resource appeared on the Internet under the name, which was originally a kind of platform for those who like to travel, within which tourists exchanged their opinions and gave recommendations on visiting a particular attraction. But in just a few months the site has transformed into a real travel club, where an opportunity has opened up to negotiate with local residents about organizing excursions.

Today, on the site you can order individual sightseeing tours in 485 cities around the world. More than 210 thousand people used the services of the service in 2018 alone, most of whom were satisfied with the service they received. And there is nothing to be surprised at: after all, the guides are local residents, very creative and passionate people who know much more about their city than employees of travel agencies.

Who will be interested in the service?

Tripster is primarily designed for independent travelers, not package travelers. The site provides an opportunity to find unusual excursions from locals who, in addition to standard sightseeing walks, will show you secret corners, organize tasting tours and allow you to plunge into the cultural life of the city.

Curious and active tourists who are bored with monotonous excursions will find Tripster especially attractive. As part of these activities, travelers manage to climb obscure rooftops for the best views of the city and descend underground, test their creativity in pottery, art and dance, track winemaking technology, and sample various teas and coffees. As a rule, excursions from Russian-speaking local residents are as rich as possible and fully meet the interests of tourists.

Benefits and features

The Tripster website services have a number of important benefits, including:

1. A wide range of excursions. As we mentioned above, Tripster organizes tours to 433 cities around the world. Several guides can work at one facility at once, so it will not be difficult to find a suitable option here. And besides the most popular destinations on the site you can also find little-known cities, the locals of which are ready to create all the conditions for tourists for the most complete acquaintance with iconic places. It is noteworthy that today excursions from local to local are in great demand. So, for example, residents of Moscow often go to a company with a guide, who combines a story about objects with exciting quests, puzzles and prizes.
2. Taking into account individual requirements. This is one of the greatest strengths of the Tripster. Firstly, the excursion will be formed exclusively for you and your companions, and you will not find outsiders at the event. Many guides from local residents recruit a group where the maximum number of people does not exceed 10. If there are more of you, then this issue is discussed individually with the guide. Secondly, the tour will be organized according to your interests. To understand how important this is, it is worth remembering at least the guides from Turkey or Egypt, with whom the main part of the excursion takes place at the factories of textiles, leather and carpets, rather than at the sight itself.
3. Possibility to book a tour in advance. If you know the exact travel dates, you can pre-book your tour using Tripster's system. And this is very convenient, because you do not have to look for the right person on your own, spending precious time on this. A good guide will take care of all the nuances of the walk and will try to do it in the best possible way.
4. Possibility to speak with a tour guide before booking a tour. The site provides for communication with local residents providing their services. You can ask them any questions you are interested in and only then make a decision on the reservation. And after making an advance payment, you will be provided with the contact number of the guide. Thus, you will have the opportunity to contact him and discuss all the details in more detail.
5. Small amount of an advance payment. After you agree with a local about an excursion, you need to pay 20% of the total cost of the service. This is done so that the guide is sure of the seriousness of your intentions: after all, you are booking a certain time, which will be denied to other customers. You give the rest of the amount to the guide in person.
6. Promotions and discounts. Tripster often offers discounts to its users. To take full advantage of the promotions, you must register on the site. You can often find various promotional codes here: some of them are valid for only a few days, but provide a good discount (up to 10%), others are longer, but the discount amount in this case will be small (up to 5%).

How to book an excursion?

So, if the dates of the trip are determined, and the travel plan is drawn up, it's time to take care of the main part of the tour - excursions. Using the Tripster website is quite simple, but we decided to compile detailed instructions for working with the system for you.

Step 1. Finding a suitable option

We are on the main page of the site, where you can see two search boxes at once: one "Where are you going" - in the middle at the top and the second "Where are you going" - in the center. Both lines serve the same function. We enter in any of them the direction we need (in our case it will be) and click on the "Find" button.

At our request, the system was able to find 28 offers. To clarify the parameters of our search, we will use the form above, in which we indicate the dates we need, the number of people and the price range. Then we click on the "Find" tab.

After adjusting the parameters, the number of offers was reduced to 3. In order to familiarize yourself with the excursions presented by local residents, click on the photos.

A new window opens in front of us, where you can see information about the guide, information about the excursion itself, as well as a booking calendar. Busy days are highlighted in pink, free days in green. Below, under the calendar, there are reviews of tourists who have already used the services of this local resident. Be sure to read other travelers' opinions on the guide and his organizing skills. Having studied the information on all three proposals, we opted for the most budgetary option with a large number of positive reviews. Now we click on the date we need in the presented calendar and go to the next step.

After we clicked on the planned date, a form appeared in front of us. It is important to indicate the day of the proposed excursion, the number of tourists, name and surname, e-mail address and telephone number. Below is a field in which you can ask the guide all your questions. We draw your attention to the fact that by filling out this form, you are not yet booking an excursion, but only declare your intention. You can make a final reservation after the guide answers the questions.

When you make the final decision on booking an excursion, you need to make a prepayment for the service. It is 20% of the total amount of the tour. Payment can be made using a bank card or bank transfer. We choose a convenient method in the appropriate form. Here you can also ask the organizers a question and cancel the order if you are not satisfied with the guide's answers.

After payment, you will receive a notification about the completed operation on your email. You will pay the rest at a personal meeting with the guide. This is how the site works with excursions from local residents.

Can I cancel my reservation

If you made a prepayment, but suddenly the trip is interrupted, I am ready to return the funds to you. The main thing in this situation is to contact the guide as soon as possible and inform him about the cancellation of the reservation. After that, it is important to notify the support service of the site by writing a letter to the administration at [email protected]. Funds will be refunded according to the system's return policy:

1. money will be refunded in full if you inform about the cancellation of the reservation at least 5 days before the scheduled excursion
2. if the cancellation occurs less than 5 days before the agreed meeting, then the site is ready to refund the prepayment only if the trip is interrupted for reasons beyond the tourist's control (for example, flight cancellation)

It is also important to consider that if a local resident, having agreed with you, spent his own money on the purchase of entrance tickets or made other expenses that cannot be compensated for when canceling the tour, the prepayment will be refunded minus the amount spent by him.

Output

Guided tours by locals are a tempting alternative to the standard tourist walks. On the one hand, they make it possible to enjoy the sights of interest in an individual format, on the other hand, they reveal much more interesting information about the objects. At the same time, the organization of the walk takes place on a convenient day for you, taking into account only your interests.

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Directly about your experience of participating in this project I can tell you a little for now, as my gritting debut took place quite recently. I was going to show Dostoevsky's Petersburg to an aspiring Italian photographer, but in the end we walked around, it seems, the entire historical center of the city, since the weather and free time allowed it. In addition to traditional conversations about Russian culture (vodka-girls-bears), during the walk I took my new acquaintance to the famous Pyshechnaya on Bolshaya Konyushennaya, and the end of the excursion was a delicious dinner, which I got as a "thank you" for the hospitality. Frankly, it was nice)

She shared with me a much richer experience of "hospitality" one of the most active Moscow gritters Vera Kukoleva…

Vera, tell us, please, what curious cases happened to your excursionists in Russia?

It is very touching to observe how foreigners diligently try to learn to read in Russian and memorize basic expressions. Instead of a long and terribly difficult “hello”, sometimes we get a familiar “hello!”, Which tourists intend to show their politeness in shops and hotels. Well, and "Pestopach" instead of "Restaurant" - everyone knows the story.

Once, sightseers from America asked "where do I usually buy nesting dolls." Immediately I imagined how every weekend I go to the sales of Russian folk toys at a student discount. I had to tell that almost only tourists buy nesting dolls.

What negative emotions can you get from grilling?

Negative impressions from excursions are extremely rare. Rather, they are the exceptions, confirming the rule that gritting always brings only joy. Sometimes it is a shame when guests are not at all interested in anything related to the history of the city, its architecture. Such people just want to "chat for life", and the preparation of the excursion turns out to be useless. And for each walk, I carefully prepare in advance: I select material, try to find something new and interesting.

The project is free, but it's always nice to get a "thank you" for your work. In what ways did foreign guests thank you?

It is very pleasant when guests bring me souvenirs from their country. Once a group from Brussels presented a box of real Belgian chocolate (tasty, tasty!), And tourists from Italy brought a traditional Neapolitan pendant for luck. Some foreigners, knowing that the program is free, want to express their gratitude with a tip and pay for the excursion, but I never take money: for me it spoils the beauty of the walk.

Greter's meeting with tourists is like meeting good friends. We communicate at ease, exchange stories about life in Russia and abroad. I give my guests advice on how best to spend time in Moscow, where to go, how not to get lost in the metro. Often we stay in touch after a walk and really stay friends for a long time. Who would think of taking money from friends? Therefore, I refuse on principle to "pay".

I thank Vera for a piece of her experience, which she shared with us, and I hasten to torment you with questions. the creator of the Moscow gritting community Alexey Sotskov…

Alexey, please tell us about how the idea of \u200b\u200bcreating such a project was born?

Several years ago, I was planning to travel to New York and was looking for free guided tours there by the residents themselves. Stumbled upon the Big Apple Greeter community, created to combat the stereotype that New York is a gang city. Local volunteers showed the guests not famous sights, but the real life of the American metropolis, which turned out to be not so dangerous.

I really liked the idea of \u200b\u200bthis project and decided to organize something similar in Moscow. The focus was on linguistic students who lack language practice. There are many speaking clubs and thematic lectures in foreign languages, but you usually have to pay to participate in them. And excursions for foreign guests are free conversational practice, and even in an extremely informal atmosphere. In many cities, gritters are mostly aged people who have a lot of free time, while in Russia, on the contrary, there are more young people.

To what extent is this an official organization and does it have some kind of "head unit" in charge of all regional ones?

So far, everything is run by the virtual Global Greeter Network, which, however, has its own real president and even several departments responsible for marketing, admitting new members, etc. Meetings of the worldwide guitar community are held annually in various cities. There are plans to transfer the activities of the organization to the "official channel", but so far this is all at the design stage. It's funny, but some members of the Global Greeter Network, for example, all the same Big Apple Greeter exist in a completely official form and are even sponsored by the city hall.

With this kind of support, I suspect the New York Gritters community is the most developed among its international counterparts.

That's right, Big Apple Greeters are the most advanced, because they stood at the origins of the movement, which originated already in 1992, while their "official bosses" of the Global Greeter Network appeared only in 2005. At the moment, the New York Gritters Association has more than 70 people who conduct about 150 excursions a month. True, it should be noted that such a high figure is achieved at the expense of domestic tourists, that is, Americans from other states. We, in contrast to Big Apple Greeter, are more focused on working with guests from abroad.

Then let's just move on to the Russian gritting movement, tell us a little about its performance.

The Moscow community of gritters will soon be 4 years old, and the St. Petersburg community has been operating for only 10 months. 70 participants are registered in the capital, about 40 in the Northern capital. As for the number of excursions, it depends very much on the time of year. During the season in Moscow, about 50 walks are held per month with foreign guests, and in winter - only 20. In St. Petersburg the figures are still quite modest: only 40 excursions since the creation of the community. However, it should be noted that the number of interested tourists is increasing every year, so we hope that we will continue to grow and develop!

I can only thank Alexey for the interesting conversation and wish the gritters of both capitals more interesting guests from all over the world!

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Excursions in 300 cities from Trypster.ru

I, like most modern people, prefer to make the most of the Internet system. With it, you can order and pay online, or call a taxi. And from time to time I use the service of ordering and paying for online excursions. If I go to a country with a huge number of attractions, then in order to use my free time effectively, I use the service . Therefore, we will consider all its advantages and capabilities in more detail.

Features and Benefits of Tripster

The site has been operating since 2013, but in this relatively short time, it was able to earn the trust of a huge number of travelers. Most interestingly, the people who created it decided to take a completely different approach to organizing excursions. It involves the organization of non-standard excursions, according to the preferences of each client. This is rare.

Features of the company Trypster.ru:

• Guides who themselves are delighted with their excursions. These people themselves develop the route in such a way that every guest of the city will be delighted. So that it will take your breath away, from new amazing places and facts. There are people of different specialties among the guides. These are architects, journalists, art critics, historians and so on;
• Originality. The company uses standard approaches. Her motto is “No to standard excursions”. Each walk is unique and unrepeatable, regardless of whether it is a visit to museum complexes, or "walks on the roofs";
• Individuality. The unusual excursion service does not work with crowds of tourists. There are exclusively individual programs designed for one traveler and his companions. That is why I personally liked the system, I don't like platitudes.

Opportunities:

1. Independent choice of the author's excursion. That is, you yourself get acquainted with all the excursion programs of this or that guide, compiled by him independently. Read the reviews of people who have already used this excursion program. And only then you decide whether this option suits you or not.
2. Advance booking online. Personally, I am very pleased with this service. Booked a convenient day and hour, arrived in a country or city, rested. And then you can go on excursions.
3. Payment. Here is generally a chic option. To make an advance payment, you have the option of only 16% of the total cost. You give the rest of the money to the guide directly at the meeting. But that's not all - if, for any reason, you cannot attend the excursion, the money will be returned.

In my opinion, excellent conditions, a unique service of individual excursions. You can learn more about all the offers on the official Tripster portal - experience.tripster.ru.

Benefits of online booking excursions

The list of advantages of online booking excursions to Tripster is quite impressive. But I would like to focus on the most important points:

• Complete freedom of choice (independence from tour operators, ideal for people who want to plan their time on their own);
• Saving time. There is no longer a need to spend hours on the Internet, choosing the most suitable excursion option. Everything is in one place;
• Calmness. The tourist can be sure that he will not be deceived, will not sell tickets for excursions at inflated prices, and so on.

The portal is really unique, you will not find this in any tour operator in the whole world.

How to make an order and payment

The process of finding a suitable option, booking and paying on the official portal is quite simple. For example, I do this:

• I enter the Tripster portal - excursions from local residents;
• I enter the desired city or country into the search engine;
• I choose the excursion I like;
• I decide on a suitable day and time;
• I contact the guide and clarify all the points of interest;
• I enter personal data (surname and name, e-mail, phone number);
• I pay, sometimes I pay only 16%, and the rest of the calculation is already in place, to the guide.

There are a few more interesting points here. As soon as you make the payment (with a Visa or Mastercard - it doesn't matter), your phone number will open to the guide, and you will see it. Now it is possible to contact the guide at any time, before the appointed day of the tour. But until you make the payment, communication is possible exclusively on the portal. Well, as you can see, everything is simple, easy and accessible to the point of banality.