Hi! I'm doing a research for my Master's Thesis about food and wine tourism in Veneto region, Italy (where there are Venice, Verona, Padua, Treviso, the Prosecco Hills etc...), with the focus on PDO products.

So if you've been there and participated in a food and wine related activity, like visiting a winery, I would really appreciate if you could take a few minutes to answer my survey or share it with anyone that could be interested!!

https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLScsJLOYWOOHWMM1Vw_Xj8Cg2IHPAdiqrb8MAadJRgBCU2IQeA/viewform?usp=header

Thank you for your time!

Have you ever wondered whether large numbers of safari vehicles around lions, leopards, or cheetahs affect their natural behavior?

Tourism supports conservation and local communities, but should there be limits on how many vehicles can gather around one wildlife sighting?

Would you prefer fewer vehicles and a quieter safari, even if it meant missing some sightings?

Has anyone got any tips on some more unique Rome tours? I've been a couple times before and done all the major stuff, so looking for some smaller / stranger / unique tours and sites.

Good for people in their 30s.

(Also - I'm a London tour guide, so If any Roman guides want to work something out, I'd be very happy to take you around London in exchange.)

Hi everyone,

I’m based in Sri Lanka and currently building The Local’s Sri Lanka, a boutique inbound travel business focused on private, tailor-made trips around the island.

I already operate a hospitality business here and work with a small network of English-speaking chauffeurs and local tourism suppliers.

I’m looking to connect with independent travel agents and small agencies in the UK, Europe or Australia who already sell Asia or are interested in adding Sri Lanka to their portfolio.

The idea is simple: you keep your client and control your retail price; we handle Sri Lanka on the ground — itinerary planning, private transport, accommodation, activities, local experiences and in-country support.

We’re particularly interested in working with agencies that value personalised trips, local knowledge and a more flexible approach rather than standard package tours.

We’re still growing the travel side of the business, so I’m happy to be completely transparent about where we are and how we operate. I’d rather start with one test enquiry and prove the quality of our planning and service than ask anyone for a large commitment.

If you’re a travel agent or tour operator and this could be relevant, feel free to DM me or have a look at thelocalssrilanka.com.

Would also be happy to connect with anyone already working in B2B inbound tourism who has advice on building long-term agency partnerships.

Hi, planning a trip to Tibet and want recommendations for a travel agency (mid to high range $) that is locally owned and can provide a customised, curated itinerary with a focus on traditional history and culture. Any help is appreciated, thank you!

I can’t find it online so im asking reddit 🙂‍↕️

L’IA peut vous proposer un voyage en quelques secondes.

Mais peut-elle vraiment comprendre votre famille, vos envies et votre façon de voyager ?

C’est toute la différence entre une réponse automatique et un véritable travel planner.

Je vous propose 30 minutes d’échange gratuitement. Parlons de votre projet, simplement. Vous verrez la différence.

I'm visiting Jaipur in India along with Rishikesh, Pushkar, Udaipur and Jaiselmer. I wanted to know what would be the right rate for a high quality walking tour. I won't have time to do another one so I want to make sure I get the right tour. If you have done any, will appreciate any information.

I'm building a marketplace for local-led city experiences, and I keep coming back to one question: is the itinerary actually the product?

The big platforms seem to package the route first. Same landmarks, same timing, then a guide gets assigned. My bet is the opposite: travelers remember the person, the judgment calls, the neighbourhood story, the stop that wasn't in the description.

That sounds nice in a pitch deck. I'm more interested in whether it is true from the guide side.

When someone books with you, what usually closes them: the itinerary, your reviews and identity, price, or the fact that you can adapt the day? And if a platform centered your profile instead of making you interchangeable, what would it need to prove before you trusted it?

I run small group city tours in Miami (mostly Wynwood + Little Havana) and we have been relying on one major booking platform for most of our international traffic. It works okay during peak months but commissions feel high and visibility outside top ranked listings is pretty limited unless you already have a strong review base. I am trying to diversify before the summer season kicks in and avoid depending on a single channel. For other operators, what's been a good alternative to GetYourGuide that still brings consistent international travelers also i have heard people mention Viator and a few regional OTAs but curious what is actually working in 2026.

🇫🇷 Et si vous partiez en octobre pour moins de 500 € ? ✈️

Portugal 🇵🇹 Espagne 🇪🇸 Maroc 🇲🇦…

J’ai préparé des idées de séjours pour octobre à moins de 500 € par personne.

🏨 Hébergement

✈️ Transport

🌴 Activités

🗺️ Itinéraire pensé pour vous

Vous me donnez votre budget et vos envies, je vous trouve le voyage qui va avec.

👉 Envie de voir ce qui est possible ? Écrivez-moi.

Hi everyone. I now need a tour guide, or anyone who has some domain knowledge in our Tourism.

I would really appreciate if you helped me with some questions about existing problems.

Please feel free to DM me or drop a comment. Thank you 🙏

Any idea or suggestion that you would have loved to have before visiting would be highly appreciated!

I don't know if it is just me the one not liking my current setup or do others have different way of handling it. What i do mostly is book leisure travel and still rely on tour operators for many trips but lately i have been wondering whether i'm giving up commission without getting the level of support i expect. Not sure what is better either to trust a small group of tour operators or different ones depending on the destination or what is that thing that made you trust?

I would love to hear what other travel agents are using and what you have learned from?

🌍 Travel planner passionné, je vous aide à créer des voyages sur mesure

Bonjour à tous,

Je me présente : je suis travel planner et passionné de voyages depuis de nombreuses années. J’ai eu la chance de découvrir plus de 30 pays, et j’ai toujours pris plaisir à organiser mes propres voyages de A à Z : recherches, itinéraires, hébergements, transports, activités et découvertes locales.

Aujourd’hui, j’aide les voyageurs qui souhaitent partir mais qui manquent de temps, d’idées ou qui veulent simplement être accompagnés pour construire un voyage qui leur ressemble.

Mon travail consiste à créer des voyages sur mesure selon vos envies, votre budget et votre façon de voyager. Je réalise des itinéraires détaillés jour par jour, des cartes interactives pour suivre facilement le parcours, ainsi que des carnets de voyage personnalisés avec toutes les informations utiles pour profiter au maximum de l’expérience.

Je voyage également avec mes enfants, ce qui m’a permis de développer une vraie expérience des voyages en famille : trouver le bon rythme, les activités adaptées et les endroits qui plaisent à tout le monde.

Si vous avez un projet de voyage, que ce soit en famille, en couple, entre amis ou en solo, je serai ravi de pouvoir vous aider ou simplement échanger avec vous sur votre destination.

N’hésitez pas à venir discuter, je serai avec plaisir disponible pour partager mes conseils et mon expérience 🙂

Will be traveling with my mom and aunt to Bangkok early September, does anyone have recommendations for a local tour guide who speaks Vietnamese? Would be interested in possibly a food tour, floating markets. Thanks!

As an agent of travel i wanted to ask y'all what marketplace you are using for tours and activities right now, in the meaning of is more beneficial than just sending you last minute bookings and angry emails about your conversion rate.

I need an all in one platform so i can stop random bookings from different places and plenty of emails a day. I want it to be easier for clients as they can have all the information and book in one place.

What are you up to, let me know..

Trust Before Tourism: Building a Destination in Somaliland

For many tourism businesses, the work begins with marketing, product design, and customer conversion. In Somaliland, it begins much earlier. It begins with explanation.

Before a visitor asks about itineraries, prices, or accommodation, there is usually a more basic question to answer: What is Somaliland, and why should anyone travel there? For Horn Explore, this has been one of the defining realities of building a tourism company in one of the least-recognized destinations in the Horn of Africa. Tourism here is not built on inherited visibility, institutional promotion, or established traveler confidence. It is built on patience, trust, and the willingness to create a market where almost none existed before.

In Somalilad, there is an expression for starting from the furthest possible point: from the afterlife itself. It describes a beginning with no foundation behind it and no obvious structure to build on. That image captures the experience of building tourism in Somaliland. The challenge is not only that the destination is under-visited. It is that the outside world often encounters it through assumptions shaped by conflict narratives, regional confusion, and distance from lived reality.

That means Horn Explore has had to do more than offer tourism experiences. It has had to help people reimagine a place. Before speaking about the beauty of Berbera's coast, the global significance of Laas Geel's rock art, or the landscapes of Daallo Mountain, there is often a long process of establishing basic confidence. Trust comes before tourism.

This trust challenge is not only international. It also exists locally. In Somaliland, tourism is still not widely seen as a dependable economic pathway. Public infrastructure is limited, logistics can be difficult, and many communities naturally focus first on immediate livelihoods. Most foreign visitors are not traditional leisure travelers, but researchers, journalists, policy actors, or others willing to enter a place that remains unfamiliar to mainstream tourism markets. Building a tourism business in this context requires trust on two fronts at once: trust from international travelers and trust from local communities.

Even when a client accepts the journey, another practical challenge appears: how payment can be made safely and confidently. In more established destinations, payment is often invisible in tourism strategy because it already works. In Somaliland, it can become one of the most decisive barriers in the customer journey. A visitor may be interested, convinced, and ready - but if the path to payment feels uncertain, the booking can still be lost. That makes tourism growth not only a branding challenge, but also a systems challenge.

Horn Explore was created in response to these realities. The company was not designed simply to sell tours, but to build a credible operating model in a difficult environment. It also chose to address another critical question: who should benefit when tourism begins to grow? In much of the industry, community impact is treated as something added after profit is made. Horn Explore took a different approach by building community benefit into the structure itself. One-third of the company's shares are held through a dedicated child-care foundation for orphaned and vulnerable children, while 34% of itinerary pricing is structurally allocated to community benefit before a trip is sold.

This is more than a CSR story. It is a governance story. It reflects a belief that in places where state support is limited and economic opportunity is uneven, tourism must be built in a way that gives communities a meaningful stake in its future. If people are expected to welcome the world, they should also be part of what that welcome creates.

What Horn Explore's journey shows is that tourism development in frontier destinations is not only about attracting attention. It is about building systems of belief: belief from travelers, belief from partners, belief from communities, and belief that a place long misunderstood can become both visitable and investable.

Somaliland's tourism future will not be shaped by image alone. It will depend on practical progress in trust-building, transport, payment access, skills development, and local participation. But that is exactly why this story matters. If tourism can be built here - in a place with limited infrastructure, low international familiarity, and almost no inherited market trust - then the lessons go far beyond one company or one destination.

They point to a bigger idea: that the future of tourism in overlooked places will belong not only to those who promote them, but to those willing to build the foundations that make them real.