What does the Local Guides program mean to me?

With the world becoming more like a village, the more people need to travel easily as well feel like they are at home in every place they go to. So, being a local guide makes me feel like someone important who is helping both people coming to visit my community and all local businesses which want to increase their visibility on the internet. with every photo or review I make, I feel like I’m being within somebody’s decision process, so I’m inspired to do careful and honestly.

I personally had an experience, I saw this restaurant on the museum, it was just like half a kilometer away as it showed but when I went to the place I couldn’t find it, that was a waste of time and really annoying. So, I believe with the help of us local guides these mistakes can be avoided beforehand.

In another way, some businesses mostly describe their product in a way totally different from reality. That’s where the role of a local guide like come in, to tell the truth, so people will have realistic expectations of a place they want to go to.

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Hello @Kevintar ,

Thank you for sharing.

You might not know but it is not allowed to post images or any other content in Local Guides Connect that infringes on anyone else’s legal rights, including copyright. We always encourage guides to share their original content, so I would like to recommend you review the following post: How do I follow the original content guidelines on Connect?. The content you’ve posted does not appear to be your own and is in violation of the Local Guides program rules.

Please remove all the images within the post, otherwise I will have to move your post to the off-topic posts archive.

P.S.: Please note that I’ve relocated your post to Local Stories, as it looks like an application post and it belongs there.