2022
This post was inspired from a sequence of recent events:
- San Francisco Local Guides Summit 2017 - where more than 100 people, arriving from 62 different countries, were helped to arrange their stay and things to see, do, and eat, by a group of local Local Guides. Read more: LGsummit2017-A-local-Local-Guide-guiding-Local-Guides.
- A post from @TraciC inviting the Local Guides Connect Community to visit and participate in our Travel board.
Why “travel like a local?”
A Local Guide has first hand, local knowledge of the places he goes to often than a travel agency who does not.
What are Local Guides?
- Local refers to the places where we live, to the area that we know
- Guides refers to what we do naturally - sharing our experiences, helping others, providing information that, being Local, we have and know.
As Local Guides, nobody has the local knowledge that we have about our places
Why not share our experiences, help others, and suggest what to see, do, and when to go?
We can do this in Travel Topic
In Local Guides Connect, there are many travel and advice-related posts that already exist. For those posts, we may only need to make a some additional edits, add more detailed information to have a more useful, helpful post.
How to write a great Travel post
- (Where) Location - Insert at the beginning of your post “Name of the place/city/town - State” link to Google Maps
- (How) to reach it - Information about closest airport, train station, bus stop, etc.
- (What) to do /(When) to visit: This is the core of your post. Here you can post your photos, write your story, your recommendations: what you “must see and do,” when and where to go, etc. You might already have existing content you shared in Connect’s “Share Your Photos and Discoveries” board. Here, you can add more details and give new life to your already written post.
NOTE: Please do not advertise or promote your services, just provide detailed, helpful information. If someone wants more detailed information, they can contact you directly.
Want some suggestion?
Traveling like a Local - Italy - Where to stay
Adding extra information to your helpful Travel and Advice post
- Accommodation - Where to sleep, price average, best area for an hotel, etc.
- Food - Where to find restaurants but, more important, what to eat
- Events - Suggested events to attend, when the event is
- Everything you think that can be useful for your area
Write your title: “Traveling Like a Local - <destination>”
For an easy search, tag your post with Name of the place, City/town, or State
Feel free to share your post in all socials, with the hashtags #LocalGuides and #TravelingLikeALocal
We look forward to reading your helpful, informative future Travel post!
- Nepal | 
