Travel Blog list

Sicily is one of the Mediterranean's greatest pleasures. Lying off the coast of southwestern Italy, this captivating island offers stunning sea views, quaint medieval hill towns, rustic cuisine and fine wine. What's

If you're in the UK, we've got a lovely start to your week: free entrance to the Destinations Holiday and Travel Show in London! Tickets cost £13 pounds at the door, but we've got our hands on a promo code for

We are sad to be devoting more words to an act of terror - and yet we find ourselves here again. This week a terrorist strapped a bomb to his body and detonated it in a heavily touristed area in Istanbul, Turkey,

While much of North America is in the depths of January, sunny Martinique, a tiny island in the Caribbean Sea, remains a tropical paradise. Today our guide Meri joins us to share her knowledge of the island, so that our

Happy New Year! The first week of 2016 is also bringing us our first trade show of the year: the New York Times Travel Show. Held every year at the Jacob Javits Center in Manhattan, this show is the largest travel show

2015 was a big year for company growth at ToursByLocals, as we hired a dozen new staff to work at our offices in Vancouver, London and Buenos Aires. What better way to introduce them to you than by sharing their top

At the end of each year, we get to compile a lot of interesting numbers: how many travelers toured with our guides? (Over 375,000 and counting!) Which guide sold the most tours? Which tours were the most popular? Where

It could take a lifetime to sift through the history of Zagreb, a city that in the past 100 years has belonged to 4 separate nations. Today we introduce one of our Croatian guides, Hrvoje. He’s here to tell us a bit

Christmas is looming just around the corner and New Year's Eve plans are also beginning to take shape. For our family this year that means a big gathering at a BC ski resort with extended family. But if we were to buy a

Victoria, BC is an intriguing blend of refined British culture and the wild Pacific Northwest. There’s really nowhere else quite like it…anywhere! Pamela, our local guide in Victoria, joins us today to tell us about the

Our inboxes are bursting this morning with promotional emails heralding "Cyber Monday!" deals on everything from electronics to lingerie. If you're at all like us, you've come to realize you get a lot more joy out of

It has been almost two weeks since the November 13 terrorist attacks on Paris left the city - and most of the world - reeling. Our guides there (who are all safe and sound, thankfully) have many thoughts to share, but I