Guest in the City is a collaborative platform
allowing French or foreign tourists to book meals and activities with French locals
(cooking class, wine tasting, guided tours…). The objective is to offer a friendlier
kind of tourism and authentic experiences with locals. People from different
nationalities can meet and share their culture and way of living.
The website has been launch in October 2015 by
Frank & Véronique Prabel, co-founder of Guest in the City. They decided to
develop this project because they found that it is not always easy to meet the
locals when travelling. Guest in the City offers a connection between the
tourists and the hosts wishing to share their passions or welcome people at
their places.
Source: http://www.guestinthecity.com/
Everybody can become a member of the Guest in
the City community. You can be a French tourist but also an inhabitant of a
neighborhood wishing to book and share an activities or dinner with a host
staying in your area. In the future the platform would like to expand to the
BtoB market and attract cultural or sportive event manager looking for new
places, rooms or activities for their events.
But how does it work?
The tourists or users of the platform can book their activities and pay the price fixed by the hosts directly on the site.
The tourists or users of the platform can book their activities and pay the price fixed by the hosts directly on the site.
Source: http://www.guestinthecity.com/
Guest in the City takes a
commission of 15% on the amount paid by the customers as the service fees but
the hosts do not need to pay to publish a post. Each host is selected and
validated by the team of Guest in the City to create a community in which
tourists and users of the platform can trust and to assure the quality of the
services offered. All the posts are available in French and English to increase
the number of potential bookings.
100 posts are now available on the platform
(April 2016). The objective of the team of Guest in the City is to reach 300
posts by the end of 2016 and more than 1,000 post by the end of 2017.
Surfing on the “collaborative economy” wave,
this new start up offers an easy way to give a new dimension to our travels.
Useful for both international and national travellers this concept allows
travellers to be closer to locals and to discover more about the habits of the
place they are visiting. For now, the start up is only starting to work and
focus mostly on France but can easily expand to be used for other countries and
offer more activities.
Lucile BESSON & Léa MARET
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