Press and Media Coverage

My goal? to visit Paris though the lens of the 1920s. I wrote about how traveling with a theme can spice up and add focus to your trip. Narrowing your focus helps you go deeper, beyond the regular tourist sites.

The concept is simple: guided tours led by locals who share their love for their neighborhoods with travelers who want to escape the beaten path. They are now a network of more than 3,000 volunteers spread across 47 countries.

Since 2017, Julie Carlier, a greeter (volunteer guide) in Charleroi, has been passionately sharing her love for her city. Meet an extraordinary ambassador for Charleroi.

Angelina knows the best places for noodle soup and hidden temples in Taipei. As a guide for the Greeter organization, the student shows travelers her personal favorite spots in the Taiwanese metropolis.

New York City runs on tourism — and Big Apple Greeter is helping visitors from around the world experience the city like locals. The volunteer-run program connects travelers with knowledgeable New Yorkers who lead free, personalized walking tours of the city’s most historic and culturally rich neighborhoods.

Choose Chicago is recruiting passionate locals to become volunteer guides through its Greeter program, offering free neighborhood tours that showcase the city’s history, culture, and lesser-known landmarks.

What if you could explore Adelaide with a local by your side—for free? No catch, no sales pitch. Just a warm welcome and a personalised walking tour from someone who truly loves this city.

Come as a guest, leave as a friend. The Greeters have adopted this wonderful motto as their motto.

The so-called Greeters offer tours in small groups in search of cultural exchange, a non-professional and free formula

Isn’t it great when you travel to a far-flung destination and meet up with a friend who lives there — someone who shows you their town through the eyes of a local? But what if there is no friend to greet you?

Lund’s non-profit tourist information Destination Lund is a tourist office with Lund’s largest selection of tourist information about Sweden’s oldest city.

Experience Düsseldorf away from the classic tourist routes – that is the concept of Walter Heeb and other volunteer Düsseldorf “Greeters.” They offer visitors a very personal walk through the city.

While it’s great to tick off the tourist sites on holiday, sometimes you just really want to discover the places locals go. That cosy pub, quiet park, hidden cafe or fabulous boutique. And an international scheme in more than 150 cities lets you do that.

A Greeter group has been founded in Bottrop: people from all over the world are invited to get to know the city and rethink their preconceptions.

The HNA is also available to listen to: Angela Rosen and Jens Haupt are “Kassel Greeters” and offer a special kind of city tour. They talk about this in the podcast “Mensch, Kassel.”

Discovering the neighborhoods of Poitiers is easy. The “greeters” offer a free tourist service, which has been warmly welcomed by the tourist office.

They are called Greeters, G.R.E.E.T.E.R.S. This concept, invented in New York in 1992, comes from the English word “to greet,” meaning to welcome. Greeters are residents who volunteer to show small groups of tourists around their town.

The village of San Lorenzo Dorsino, together with New York and 130 other cities and regions, from Argentina to Vietnam, is part of the International Greeter Association. It is the first area in Italy to be “certified” for its Greeters.

At the invitation of the Comitee Düsseldorfer Carneval e.V., the Düsseldorf Greeters deepened their knowledge of winter customs at the House of Carnival.

France 3 TV takes an interest in Toulouse Greeters and participates in a Greet during the Rugby World Cup. This short report shows how the Toulouse Greeters association is involved in the city’s overall tourist and cultural offering, ensuring the best possible welcome for the tens of thousands of visitors expected during this sporting event.

If I told you a private guide was waiting to give you a personalized tour of Paris, you’d probably be excited — and a bit wary. Exactly how much would such a swanky experience cost? Thanks to one remarkable organizer and their volunteers, the answer is nothing at all!