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In recent years, startups have been rapidly conquering the travel market: Uber has long been conquering a niche from the traditional taxi, and vacation rentals are taking the place of familiar hotels. But that's not all - with the help of online platforms, travelers can easily find a guide among locals who are willing to introduce 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 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 both offer a guide own route, and choose an existing one. For example, for those who prefer quiet and secluded places, the service offers an eight-hour excursion to picturesque lands South Island New Zealand. The journey will start at cruise port Akaroa with an introduction to 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, Mountain pass Porter Pass and Crustchurch, New Zealand's third largest city. In addition to exploring the Southern region, the program also includes a traditional dinner. National cuisine The country is represented by exotic Maori dishes - fried scorpions and larvae, snails and sheep's eyes.

Also on the online platform there are less intricate routes - for example, excursions to the main attractions Western Europe. On the site it is possible 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 80,000 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 tour route is planned after the choice of a temporary satellite, there are no ready-made options here.

Perhaps the main advantage of the platform is Business Cards 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.

A tourist can rate his guide, as well as write a comment. “It keeps the guides on their toes and creates healthy competition that motivates people to work hard,” says Show Around founder Lynas Szablowski.

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

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

Shiroube

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

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, lists with the most common locations and recommendations are regularly updated on the site. So, during a trip to Shanghai, locals offer to walk along Nanjing Street and try dumplings - a dish similar to dumplings, but cooked according to an old Chinese recipe.

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

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 the developers note, the platform is more focused on creating 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 non-professional guides an opportunity to earn money.

This platform is good because it makes it possible to find a person who organizes for you leisure even in the center big city. For example, together with a guide, you can try yourself in rock climbing in the forest of Fontainebleau, 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 entertainment, like three-day 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 stuff.

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

Prices for guide services start at $80 per person for one day.

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

The service is focused on central cities 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 at night in Paris. The guide will take tourists through the Latin Quarter and the Seine, as well as tell you how to take good night portraits.

Rent a guide

The German startup Rent a Guide offers guide services for all possible types of vacation leisure - from dinner in the best national traditions on the 123rd floor of the Burj Khalifa to flying on hot-air balloon or a jeep safari in the Arabian deserts. For those who love hiking, Rent a Guide will prepare tourist excursions in 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. On the this moment the service operates in 12 cities and offers more than 500 excursions. The startup is more focused on leisure activities that locals can talk about. For example, you can visit a violin workshop in Paris, ride vintage cars, and even take part in a marathon in Kenya.

“We want to bring back the element of magic to travel, in the center of which is people,” said the head of the company, Brian Chesky.

In addition, here you can try your hand at charity work and take part in socially significant events, such as helping stray dogs and a workshop on creating art from garbage.

Unlike other online platforms, Trips has a very functional application, so with the help of Airbnb and its new service, you can literally plan your trip from start to finish.

AT independent travel Finding a guide is considered by many to be an optional and even superfluous task, because a map of the city can be taken at any hotel, and you can find out the history of the Colosseum on Wikipedia. And guidebooks, in the end, did not stop releasing, now even in the form of applications for smartphones. But a tour is not necessarily an old-fashioned journey from a cathedral to a museum and from a museum to a cathedral. good guide will allow you to correctly prioritize when planning a visit to a city or country, look into places that guidebooks do not write about, and simply learn more about the place you have arrived. Editorial along the way tested on my own experience several ways to get on a tour in Russian and English in unfamiliar city and here are our recommendations.

Where can I find a good guide

on a free group tour of the city;
on the Internet on sites for online booking of excursions;
on a paid group or individual excursion which can be purchased directly on the spot.

1. Participation in a free group tour of the city

In almost any city that attracts a more or less stable tourist flow, there are free group tours in local, English, and sometimes other languages \u200b\u200bthat are popular in the region (suddenly you know them better than English). Somewhere, to participate in them, pre-registration online is required, but often it is enough to come to the right place at the right time, which Google and its colleagues will easily prompt for the query “city” + “free tours”. So, for example, every day at 11 am a man with an orange umbrella will be waiting for you in London at the Churchill monument for a tour of the royal palaces, and every Saturday at 10 am you can join a tour of New York's Greenwich Village, where they lived, drank and created by beatniks and rock stars of the 60s. At the end of the tour, participants are usually asked to evaluate the work of the guide and determine the cost of the tour on their own.

In addition to the obvious economic attractiveness, it is also worth noting the high quality of such excursions. As a rule, the guides are really in love with the city and conduct extremely exciting tours. The organizers are also interested in ensuring that free tours do not disappoint tourists, as such tours are an excellent marketing tool.

Minus free tours- lack of flexibility. If the time of the tour or the route does not suit you, you will have to choose another option for exploring the city. Also, you will not be able to enjoy the tour if you do not speak English at a sufficiently high level.

2. Booking an excursion on the online service

Over the past few years, several platforms have emerged to act as intermediaries in finding a guide. When organizing a trip, we recommend that you study and compare the offer in the city you need on several sites. If you are interested in a tour of English language, you can use international resources:

We will consider the main services focused on finding a Russian-speaking guide:

Experts. Tourist.

The slogan of the Tripster project: "Unusual excursions from local residents." In fact, on the site you can find both quite standard sightseeing tours and really outstanding offers for travelers who are no longer interested in walking around the main attractions. At the time of publication of the article (June 2015), the site has more than 2 thousand excursions in 307 cities. Tripster is simple and easy to use. To organize a trip you need:

choose a city;
choose an excursion (a description of the tour and reviews from other travelers are available);
place an order indicating the date and any additional questions to the guide;
get confirmation and answers to questions from the guide;
pre-pay 16% of the cost of the tour.

After confirming the order, it becomes possible to communicate with the guide by phone or e-mail. We also note the presence of special projects and offers. We were especially captivated by the Moscow course "Six meetings on architecture for people who are not used to being interested in it." There is also a "Community of Travelers" section, where you can get an answer to a question from local residents and other tourists.

Editorial along the way I used Tripster services on one of my recent trips and was satisfied with both the service and the guide. At the time of preparing the material, the service had only one drawback that we noticed - a small coverage.

Experts. Tourist

The Experts project is part of the Tourist multifunctional resource, where you can find everything on the topic of travel: from travel blogs to ordering a taxi from the airport. According to the creators of the service, the "Experts" project allows you to find not only a guide, but simply "your person in Havana": an interpreter, a shopping guide, an expert. According to information on the site as of February 2015, the service offers more than 12.5 thousand excursions in 114 countries. Editorial check along the way for selected areas, it is doubtful whether these figures are realistic. So, for example, the service says that there are 32 excursions in Zagreb, although not a single company or private guide from this city is registered on the site. However, some destinations are indeed much better represented than on Tripster - for example, countries South-East Asia(Thailand, Indonesia, Cambodia).

Unlike Tripster, which is aimed primarily at travelers interested in unusual excursions, the Experts.Tourister project is organized in such a way as to become an attractive promotion tool for travel agencies and private guides. Each guide has its own page, as in social network, which contains a list of excursions, reviews of other tourists, a guide about himself, contact information, copies of licenses and certificates. By choosing a direction, the user sees a list of guides and travel companies offering services in this city, and a short note about each guide: the number of excursions and reviews, knowledge of languages, availability of documents confirming professional suitability. Description of excursions can be seen only after going to the guide's page. You can send a message to the guide through the site or contact directly - the contact phone number and email address are usually listed on the pages of the guides. The service also allows you not to choose a guide right away, but to place a request for an excursion, indicating the city, date and number of participants.

Benefits of the Experty.Tourister service is a large selection of standard sightseeing tours, a large amount of information about the guides, the ability to immediately contact the guide directly by phone or e-mail.

In our opinion, Experts. Tourist is less attractive for experienced travelers interested in non-standard excursions, but it will definitely not let you get lost in a foreign city.

In addition to these sites, there are several more similar ones with Russian-language excursions:,.

3. Purchase of an individual or group excursion on the spot

For those who do not like to plan every day of travel in advance, there is always the possibility of purchasing a tour on the spot. Booklets advertising excursions can almost always be found in hotels and hostels, the main tourist spots in the city. Travel agency offices are often located on the main streets of the city and near attractions. Usually sign up for group tour maybe in a day or two. Editorial along the way thus went on one-day excursions around the city, and to neighboring cities, and even to neighboring countries. Sometimes with the help of booklets in the hotel you can find unusual offers - for example, cycling or thematic tours. When refusing to pre-plan excursions, the following risks should be taken into account:

a small number of tours in Russian (with the exception of destinations with a large flow of tourists from the CIS countries);
low availability of private tours during periods of high tourist season due to a large number of pre-orders;
an incomprehensible situation with the quality of such tours - the guides are not motivated either by reviews on the Internet or by payment on the principle of “like it or not like it”; In fact, there is no one to ask about the quality.

Summing up, we note that none of the considered options is better or worse than others. Choose the one that is most convenient for you.

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All independent travelers different, but they have the same problems - judging by the tourist forums. There wasn’t enough time, it turned out to be uninteresting, we got lost, we didn’t know... The questions are also the same: how to find it, how to get there, is it expensive or not, is it worth wasting time? And half of these problems can be solved if you find a good private guide. Where to look for it and how to find out?

For some, a personal guide will seem like a whim - there is the Internet, with him you can independently make a route and find out details about a city or country. However, in the company of a private guide there are important advantages. For example:

no need to shovel a mountain of literature and sites, so as not to get lost in a strange city;
no language barrier with local residents;
guide knows local features- prices, tricks and potential dangers;
private tour could be cheaper organized tour;
opens access to places where they are not allowed to go without an accredited guide;
individual approach - the route will be tailored to your desires and interests;
Accompanying not only tourists, but also those who came to the city for work or for treatment.

In short, a good guide will turn the looking around tourist into a connoisseur of the city, make sure that you have a delicious lunch and do not get exhausted looking for decent souvenirs.

Where can you find such a guide?

1. Using word of mouth

Trite, but - contact your friends, ask on forums and in thematic groups of social networks; good specialists are usually heard.

2. On exchanges of translators

It would seem that the professions are different, but at such sites there are always people who are ready to acquaint clients with the city (they charge an hourly fee for services).

3. On specialized resources

In the catalogs of excursions and guides you will find unique routes in hundreds of cities - sightseeing, museum, gastronomic, extreme - as well as the people who lay them. Often, registering a guide on such a site is a paid pleasure, which allows the resource to weed out people with frivolous intentions. On the personal page of the guide, you can see what services and where he presents, description and cost of excursions, as well as reviews. The disadvantage of this method is that the resource commission will be included in the price of excursions.

There is an online platform that simply “reduces” you to a guide: you see only his photo and the cost of services, you will learn the rest during communication. The Airbnb startup is focused on leisure activities and various local events where the locals will take you. And on this site, guides offer not only excursions, but also master classes.

4. On site

The method is suitable for popular tourist cities and travelers willing to take risks. Need to go to the tourist place, find a Russian group with a guide and ask him for recommendations - you will probably immediately be offered a familiar specialist. The disadvantage of this method is that you do not choose your guide, so it is more likely that your ideas about the ideal excursion differ from him.

How to find a good guide on the Internet?

So, you have looked after the guide in desired city, went to his website, blog or page and try to determine by greeting and publications whether you will find a common language with him. Here are some criteria for a good guide:

the presence of a license (in itself does not promise an excellent excursion, but it opens up access to some castles, palaces and parks, well, it adds professional points to the guide);
prices are not lower than the average level (too small amounts should alert you);
courtesy, literacy and neatness;
the guide has video and photo reports about excursions;
interesting tells;
can meet you at the airport or train station;
does not ask for an advance payment;
offers non-standard excursions and non-tourist routes;
knows local prices and cuisine and can tell you where it is tastier and cheaper;
offers excursions to different types transport - by water, by tram, bicycle or even segway;
shares reviews of tourists and photos with them;
tells not only about the beauties that you will see, but also about how to dress for the tour and what to take with you;
works with a microphone.

Compliance with all these points does not guarantee that you have found a good guide, but it says that the person loves his job and knows the needs of tourists. Good luck with your dating and interesting trips!

in the modern world, with a guide, this is not a boring and dull activity that many people remember from their school days, when everyone was signed up for trips to local history museums. However, even then, much depended on the host of the program. If a person loves what he does, if he chooses with pleasure Interesting Facts and constantly refreshes them, if he knows how to present the material with a twinkle, such a walk (or trip) will be a pleasure.

But where can you find a guide who can present the material in an interesting way? You can try in social networks, but not all specialists are there. In addition, the most sought-after ones rarely go there, because they often do not have time. We offer Alternative option how to find a guide: contact us at Youatlas service.

All guides in one place

No matter where you want to go (Cambodia, USA, Ireland, South Africa), we have the right tours for you. To find a guide, you just need to look at our website. No need to look for anyone: we already have contacts of experienced guides! And all experts are checked. And you can contact them even before you place an order. There is a special button on the site for this.

5 reasons to find a guide

In the modern world, there are many ways to explore different interesting places on one's own. Why should you find a guide? What does it give? Let's find out!

A good tour guide knows a lot about the places and sights that he will show you. Very often, famous cathedrals, palaces, mansions, in which wealthy people of past eras lived, are shown, for example, by architects. They clearly explain how this or that building stands out, pay attention to such nuances that an ordinary traveler would simply pass by.

Historians are able to competently immerse themselves in the past of a city or a specific part, describe a specific era, tell how people lived then. Walking with such a guide will be like traveling to another world, one where everything is still fresh and real. In addition, with guides with a historical background, it is understandably very interesting to visit different excavations.

Tours are often led by experienced art historians. A visit with them to an art gallery or to a particular exhibition will enrich you with knowledge about the most famous paintings, frescoes, sculptures and other works. You will see in front of you not just a work of art, you will begin to understand the implication.

Some excursions are compiled by journalists. They love to dig up what cannot be found on the Internet, to find inconsistencies between popular theories that explain the past of a city or a particular place. Very often, such people conduct entire investigations.

The second reason to find a guide is to save money. Yes, you heard right. Although you will need to spend money on the services of the guide himself, he will save you from having to hire an interpreter. In addition, experienced guides often know where you can buy souvenirs cheaper, some share their discounts when going to popular shopping and entertainment centers.

Do you love photo shoots? Would you like to bring unusual pictures from your vacation? In that case, here it is, the third reason to find a guide! Many tour guides themselves are fond of photography. They are constantly looking for interesting and unusual angles from which to shoot a famous landmark so that it looks original, perhaps even unrecognizable. And guides willingly share these secrets with travelers.

Unique features are what you get by purchasing a specific program. Guides develop routes, book hotel rooms, tables in famous restaurants, buy tickets to museums or shows ... In a word, they do everything so that you can be where you would not otherwise be able to get. Thanks to the guides, you don't have to worry about queues. And, by the way, many places without guides are simply not allowed.

Finally, the fifth reason is pleasure and the opportunity to relax. You do not need to think about where and how to find something interesting, how to get to a specific place, where to find it on the map, how to get from one point to another, and then return to your hotel. The guide will do everything for you. And isn't a vacation just for relaxing?

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And ride around the world at someone else's expense

Four years ago, I became a tour guide and went to work in the Indian state of Goa.

I am a journalist by education and never planned to develop in tourism. In Moscow, I led excursions for foreigners, but it was a part-time job. Once a friend told me that she was flying to Goa as a guide, and I realized that I wanted the same. I sent a resume, passed an interview, and then training courses in Moscow. Two months later I was already leading excursions in India. Before that, I had never been there.

After two seasons in Goa, I worked as a tour guide for two more companies: in Crete and in the Dominican Republic. Everywhere has its own nuances, but the work and conditions are similar.

The main task of the guide

The guide conducts excursions for clients travel company. His main goal is to make sure that everyone survives and is satisfied.

Depending on the number of people, excursions are divided into group and individual, depending on the route and topic - historical and entertaining. An ideal guide will cope with any excursion. He will be able to make 60 people laugh on the bus and connect with a family with small children on a one-to-one trip. He knows all the Hindu gods and the chronology of Columbus' travels and will colorfully tell how a starfish dine.

The guide is a teacher, a mass entertainer, a reliable guide and a patient mentor. Tourists want the trip to justify the money and time spent. But everyone needs their own: someone wants to have fun, and someone wants to learn the history of the country in detail. A good guide will find a balance and lead the tour in such a way that everyone in the group will be satisfied.

How to maintain discipline

Tourists are interested in different things: some want to take a longer walk around the museum, others - around the store. Often they get carried away and lose track of time. And when there are several stops on the tour and there is a clear schedule, even a ten-minute delay can disrupt the program.

In Greece, I took excursions from Crete to romantic island Santorini. We got there by catamaran for 1000 seats, which went once a day. There was a program in Santorini, and then free time. Each time I was nervous and prayed that no one would be late or get lost. Once people were delayed for a long time and the driver had to drive along the serpentine, and the catamaran almost had to jump through the water: the gangway had already been removed.

Sometimes you want to yell at tourists and even punish the whole group for someone's bad behavior, like in a pioneer camp. But if you do this with adults who have paid for the tour, everyone's mood will be spoiled. I used financial arguments: I told tourists in advance how much it would cost them to be late. A ticket for tomorrow's catamaran - 60 €, a night in a normal hotel in Santorini - 100 €, a taxi from the port to a hotel in Crete - another 50 €. Everyone immediately became punctual.

It must be understood that these are only outwardly adult and conscious people. Inside, they are all children who came to rest.

Tour guide saves everyone

In tropical countries, things often go wrong. Cars break down, boats are late, the weather deteriorates, rum runs out. Tourists blame the guide for all troubles: there is no one else. You need to be on the side of people and try to turn the problem into an adventure.

Once our bus was stopped by the police and we stood in the mountains for two hours while they checked the documents. I did not hide from the tourists that all this upset me too, but I explained that we could not influence anything. Funny stories about the country and the mentality of local residents came to the rescue, and I used the situation as a good example. This deflated the situation. In two hours, we became friends with the guests, and they bought other excursions from the company.

Sometimes the tourists themselves create difficulties. If a conflict arose within the group, I reminded that we were on vacation in another country and the police were inexorable here. In the event of a fight, they will not figure out who is to blame.

If guests complain to the tour guide, the most important thing is to remain calm. You learn this quickly. No matter how strange questions people ask, no matter what they demand, not a single muscle will flinch on the face of a professional guide. Girls like to be asked if they have already married a local. Sometimes I said that yes, we already have five children.

The guide solves organizational issues

The guide communicates not only with tourists, but also with contractors - drivers of cars and boats, cafe employees, event coordinators. He makes sure that everyone completes their tasks and does it on time: he calls the driver in advance so that he leaves the parking lot and meets the group on the square, or rushes the waiters at lunch. Contractors do not speak Russian, so English or the local language is indispensable.

Sometimes the group is accompanied by a local guide. This is a cover in case of an encounter with the police. Under the laws of many countries, foreigners are not eligible to work in this position. When meeting with the police, the local guide pretends that this is his group. The rest of the time he does his own thing.

After each excursion, you need to report on how it went: whether all the guests returned to the hotels, how the contractors worked, whether there were any force majeure events. The report is submitted on paper or in electronic format. The work of the guide himself is evaluated by the authorities according to the questionnaires that tourists fill out. Usually the guide is rated excellent, but this is not an indicator. It is embarrassing for tourists to give a low score, because they give the questionnaires to the guide personally.

The real assessment of the work of the guide is in the rest of the questionnaire. Formally, the guide is not responsible for the variety of the menu and the beauty of the sights. But if everything is submitted correctly, tourists will receive more positive emotions and give higher ratings.

For example, my colleague arranged quests for guests in boring ancient ruins: he asked riddles, created an antique atmosphere with stories, and even frightened them by portraying a mythical monster. His excursions were the most popular in the company.

Schedule and working conditions

90% of excursions start before dawn and end after sunset. The working day of the guide lasts 12-14 hours. From this time, it takes an hour or two to go around all the hotels in the morning and collect guests. Another hour - to take everyone back in the evening.

The number of working days depends on how many excursions tourists have bought. Usually the guide works 5-6 days a week. At the peak of the season, there are 10-15 excursions without days off - until the body and psyche break down. In other months, for example, at the end of December, you sit without work for weeks. It hurts.

Income depends on the company. Some pay a fixed salary and bonuses for each excursion, others only bonuses. My employers paid 400-500 dollars or euros per month and 30-100 dollars from each excursion. It was $1000-1500 per month.

A comparable amount can be earned on a commission in stores - the official partners of the travel company. There are inflated prices, but a large selection, and the staff speak Russian. It is impossible not to visit them during the tour, they are fined for this. In order for the guides to have a personal motivation to advertise the store, the owners pay them a percentage of sales or give them gifts - a bottle of good wine, natural shampoo or a cashmere shawl.

There are other bonuses as well. Often the company pays for rental housing - a villa or apartment, where 1-2 people live in a room. Sometimes tour guides can eat for free in hotels. Once I ate all season in one of the best hotels island where she lived.

On excursions, everything that is included for tourists is also included for the guide. Helicopters, yachts, elephant and donkey rides, tastings of local sweets, grilled lobsters, massages with aromatic oils, corporate parties in luxury hotels, even bungee flights - an experienced guide will not surprise you with entertainment. Discounts are given to guides in shops, and club cards are given in restaurants.

There are regulations that the guide must comply with: for example, he must wear a uniform and not swim in front of guests. But usually no one follows this. On trips to the islands, most guides calmly sunbathe on sunbeds next to their groups.

But for being late for an excursion, absenteeism or part-time work on the side, they can be fined and even fired.

Where to look for a job in tourism

The easiest way to find a job in tourism is through acquaintances: they will share the mail of the personnel manager in the right company and say a few words. This does not guarantee success, but significantly increases the chances. You can also ask students of tourism universities, but they themselves are usually offered not the best conditions: one room for four and a total income of $ 300 per month.

If there are no acquaintances, traditional ways remain. I got my first job as a tour guide by answering an ad on Headhunter. In order not to miss the vacancies of tour operators on this site, subscribe to the mailing list "Jobs abroad".

It is useful to follow the section of vacancies on the websites of the tour operators themselves, for example, Pegasus, Coral Travel, Anex Tour, Tez Tour, Biblio Globus. Many tour operators work with the host: in Russia, the client buys a ticket from one company, and in the country of arrival he is met by employees of another - local. Then you should look for vacancies in the meeting company.

There are closed groups on Facebook, for example