Being a local guide for me means Sharing and Exploring
I truly believe that by giving honest reviews about a place be it a small business in the neighbourhood or attending place somewhere in the city, or a tourist spot anywhere across the world , might help many people like me to take decisions while planning their visits, be it for any purpose.
I love to explore rarely visited places as well as rural areas where a lot of information is not available, through local guide contributions via reviews or images about these less explored places I am doing my part in encouraging and giving people confidence to visit those places, and hence contributing a little fraction in increasing their visibility and might be who knows to an extent boosting their business.
Each time when I get a notification from google local guide whether it is about how many views I am getting for my reviews or images, or questions for places I visited, it encourages me to contribute more as people, are actually using these as references like I myself do for any new place/services, making me feel great that I am contributing for their journey, even if the percentage might be very small.
This local guide program has helped me a great deal to learn about places, cities, services and by adding to these contribution I think I too have contributed the same and helped someone, somewhere, make planned and better decisions.