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Have you ever visited Brussels? The Belgian capital is a city renowned for its fine food, café culture, Art Nouveau architecture and beautiful urban spaces. If you’ve never been – or are returning! – a Brussels-born

Some of Europe’s most popular cities are also excellent bases for fascinating day trips beyond city limits. The many sights of Rome, Paris, London and more seduce us to stay and explore – but if you’ve got an extra day,

Yes, it’s an icon. And icons – especially those in popular cities like Paris! – come with crowds. If a trip up the Eiffel Tower is firmly on your “must do” list, we’d never try to dissuade you. But if you’re looking for

Buenos Aires is a captivating, romantic place, often heralded as the “Paris of South America.” The city has special significance to ToursByLocals – a small but important part of our “Tour Experience” team lives and

ToursByLocals has been in business since late 2008, and in the almost eight years since we first opened our doors, we’ve seen scores of fabulous guides become long-term ToursByLocals partners: the exceedingly

Sometimes it takes us a while to find the right guide in a new location. This means occasionally travellers are disappointed to find no ToursByLocals guides available where they are travelling. But we'd rather you be

Today we’re introducing you to Yvonne, a delightful, seasoned local guide in Amsterdam who has been a guide on ToursByLocals since 2011. She joins us today to share some of her suggestions for exploring off the beaten

Our guide Angel in Berlin has a deep knowledge of and passion for his city. A scholar of art history, he joins us today to talk about how one of Berlin’s most famous museums is about more than its collection: it tells

Over the years, we’ve learned that there are two common traits we find in almost every ToursByLocals guide: first, an immense passion for and knowledge about the places they live, and second, a genuine desire to meet

Happy Earth Day! While it goes without saying that we should engage in environmentally sound practices every single day of the year, April 22nd is a good day to pause and evaluate our habits, and consider how our daily

One minor downside of working at ToursByLocals is we frequently fall victim to cravings for food from far-off places. Helping travellers books tours of Singaporean street food, or Parisian patisseries, or Brazilian

Do you know which city gets more international visitors than any other? If you guessed London, you’d be right: in 2015, Mastercard’s forecast of “Global Destination Cities” predicted 18.8 million visitors would spend