Travel Blog list

ToursByLocals recently partnered with Hostelbookers.com to bring you a once-in-a-lifetime chance to win a trip to Iceland to see the Northern Lights. Included in the prize are two return airfares to Reykjavik, 3-nights

Yesterday our guide Houssam in Dubai had the fun (and challenging!) task of showing a film crew around his city of Dubai. The “November Films” Production Crew was in Dubai filming a travel show to be aired on a

Have you ever been to Brisbane? As our local guide Tamara tells us, there’s more to this part of Australia’s Gold Coast than high-profile beach resorts and city life. Tamara joins us today to let us in on one of the

Have you seen the weather forecast for Madrid this week? Sunny and 19 degrees (Celsius): absolutely perfect weather for walking around a new city. Our local Madrileña guide Paloma wrote to us recently explaining the

This past Friday the ToursByLocals team stepped out of the office and into a conference room at the Vancouver Marriot Pinnacle Hotel to spend a day envisioning our company’s future and the steps we’ll be taking to get

It’s harvest season in the Northern Hemisphere, and today our guide in Bordeaux is going to tell us what that looks like in France’s Médoc wine region. Beatrice joined us at this time last year to talk about spending a

Our guide Gemma in Madrid has become a bit of a regular on our travel blog: in the past she's shared insightful tips on Madrid's lively food and shopping scenes. Today she's here to tell the night owls among us about

Taking the blog reins today is Garvan from Dublin, who's going to tell us a bit about a new holiday in Ireland that's quickly gaining traction as a major reason to celebrate the nation's most famous brew. What is

Last week one of our very special guides in Peru delivered his 50th ToursByLocals travel experience to a trio of visitors from the United States. Aaron in Lima is always impressing us with his ability to innovate; he is

Our Vancouver office was extremely saddened to learn of the death of one of our guides in Poland yesterday. Maria Margaret Skierniewska was a long-term guide in Poland, and an inspiration to many younger guides who

At the end of August we welcomed a new staff member to the ToursByLocals office team in Vancouver: Tomas Pantucek. Tomas had recently moved to Canada from the city of Brno, in the Czech Republic and was living and

While temperatures are cooling in the Northern Hemisphere, the mercury remains steady in steamy Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. Today our local guide Leng tells us how to keep cool, have fun and find the best eats in this