With the tickets for your next trip in hand, you are now in the delicate phase of organizing your stay on site . To help you, we present the concept of the local guide !
Organizing your stay alone is very complicated. You need to know at least the country you are going to, already have contacts on the spot or know someone who has already been there. Once the contacts have been found, it is also necessary to be sure of their seriousness. A complexity that makes many travelers give up organizing their stay themselves. The alternative being ready-made trips, the big gap between the initial desire and the final result is painful.
To overcome the complexity of the organization, while retaining the possibility of truly creating a tailor-made trip, travelers who wish to plan their stay in advance , whether by preference or by necessity, such as families with young children, for example, have every interest in turning to experts on site . By experts, we mean local DMCs, agents or independent guides, who have made their passion for the country in which they live their profession.
The ideal is to go through a connection platform , you are thus guaranteed, upstream, to be in front of a tourism professional in whom you can have complete confidence. Once this connection has been made, you talk directly with your guide or your incoming agent, with whom you settle every detail of your stay.
You give him your imperatives, your desires, even your needs on site, he organizes your stay from A to Z, by making several proposals so that you have the choice. You thus gradually refine the details of the stay until you are fully satisfied with the proposal. Knowing that even once there you can adjust, the relationship being personal and above all human, many possibilities exist!
The answer lies between “yes“ and “not really“. Yes, because it is a completely personalized stay , with a person who will take care of you on site, transport you, prepare your itineraries, provide you with visit tickets if necessary, take time with you. This obviously has a cost.
The difference will be on the linking media you have used. Many tour operators or travel agencies hide their proposals behind the denomination “tailor-made“. You must access a direct relationship with the local guide or agent . To find out if the media you use allows it, find the contact details of the local expert. If you have access to his contact details, you've come to the right place.
A direct connection means that there will be no commissions taken on the organized stay, which is equivalent to a saving of 10 to 40% on the organized trip. In this, the final cost will not be higher than if you had gone through an agency, while having the guarantee of what you will find on arrival!
Because you may want to travel, discover, without knowing exactly what to do! The desire to be surprised is part of the journey for many of us. You can then take a look at TripConnexion, which will inspire you through its country presentations, road-trip proposals, traveler testimonials, photo galleries... Then the forums to find out a little more about any country that tempts you.
The next phase will simply be to contact a local guide in the selected countries and let their proposals decide for you. They know their countries like the back of their hands and have become professional in its discovery! Who better than these local experts to allow you to take the pulse of an unknown country?
