FAQ of Private Tour Guides

Find “My account” link in the right corner at the top of every page and then “Register as a Tour Guide”. Please fill in the guide registration form and upload the copies of the documents confirming your professional qualification. After the moderator’s check and approval, your information becomes visible for other users.

GuidesFinder helps tourists and local tour guides find each other. GuidesFinder message system allows to realize direct communication between tourists and guides.

Tourist can write a message to any tour guide who is registered on the site. It is possible to do this in the personal cabinet on the site or from the tour guide page.

Using this website, the tourists conclude all the contracts directly with the guides and not with GuidesFinder. The tourist and the guide must agree on all terms and conditions of cooperation in advance.

After registration the guide gets basic account. This account is free. The tourist guide with a basic account can go to Premium Account. A Premium Account offers several useful features not available for tour guides in the free basic account level

The tourist pays directly to the guide. GuidesFinder is not involved in this process. The payment is done in accordance with the agreements achieved between the tourist and the guide. The tourist and the guide must agree on the terms of payment in advance.

When registering, you will be asked to enter the name of your country (city). After registration is completed, your country (city) will appear in the list of countries (cities) on the GuidesFinder website.

You can download the registration form, fill out your details and send it to us.

The messaging system allows direct communication between tourists and tour guides. In the “FIND A GUIDE” section, choose the one that meets your needs most. To contact the guide, click the icon on the tour guide page or on a tour page. You must log in to post a message.

A Premium Account offers useful features not available for tour guides in the free basic account level.

It is possible that your page contains insufficient information and is poorly indexed by search engines.

The “What I offer:” section in your profile greatly influences how your page is displayed in the search results of Google and other search engines.

For effective indexing by search engines (Google and others), the text in the "What I offer:" section should contain from 250 to 300 characters, including spaces. The text should be informative and include the most important keywords.

We recommend that you edit the information in the “What I offer:” section, then your page will be better indexed by Google and other search engines.

This means that more of your potential customers will be able to learn about you and your travel services.

To attract the attention of tourists to your services you need a good self-presentation. The detailed description on your profile page helps customers better understand who you are, and what your tours will be like.

• Enter specific information about yourself (education, work experience, etc.). Describe the specifics of your professional approach and your specialty.
• If you have a tour guide license or certificate, be sure to upload it to your profile. This will attract more new customers.
• Put a picture in good quality for the avatar on which you are at the center of your professional activity.

Find the “My account” link in the right corner at the top of every page and then “Sign in”. After login, click “My Account” and “Profile details” links. Now you can change the information in your profile.

If you have licenses or certificates, you can add them to your profile.

Find the “My account” link in the right corner at the top of every page and then “Sign in”. After login, click “My Account” and “Profile details” links.

Now you can change the information in your profile. Go to the "Public Information" tab and add your license.

The file size must be no more than 2 MB in PNG, JPG, GIF or BMP formats. If you have a license for the PDF format, you can convert it to the desired format using any free online "Convert PDF to JPG" service.

Find “My account” link in the right corner at the top of every page and then “Sign in”.

At any time you can reset / change your password. Follow the link “Forgot your Password?”. Enter your e-mail address to get the link to enter the account and change the password.

Yes. To contact the guide, click the icon on the tour guide page or on a tour page. You must log in to post a message.

IMPORTANT!!! Do not respond to the notification via email, such action will not reach the recipient!!! You must respond to messages only on the GuidesFinder website, in your personal account.

Log into the GuidesFinder website by clicking “My Account” in the top right corner. After authorization, click “My Account” again (in the upper right corner) and in the menu that opens, click “My messages”

The text is displayed not only on GuidesFinder pages, but also gets indexed by different web search systems. Unique descriptions are given high positions in the search results and are viewed by a great number of people.

This is one of the advantages of Premium Account. Log in to the GuidesFinder website by clicking on "My Account" in the top right corner. After logging in, click on "My Account" again (in the upper right corner), and in the menu that appears, select "Add Tour". You will be advised to complete the detailed information about the tour which you are going to upload (name of the tour, duration, price and description). Fill in the mandatory fields and click “Save”. After all mandatory fields are saved, your tour will be available for public viewing immediately.

This is one of the advantages of Premium Account. Log in to the GuidesFinder website by clicking on "My Account" in the top right corner. After logging in, click on "My Account" again (in the upper right corner), and in the menu that appears, select "My Tours". In the opening list select the tour and click “Edit” or “Delete”.

You cannot delete your account by yourself. Send us a message and your page will be deleted.

Important: Please note that deleting your profile means you will lose all your data, entries, personal messages, etc. None of this deleted data can be retrieved at a later date.

Please contact us.

GuidesFinder does not participate in dispute settlement. The parties shall find a compromise by themselves (see “Terms of Use”).