Tales & Tours alternatives

Lonely Planet is a large travel guide book publisher.Your home for #travel | Tweeting + retweeting the best in travel: in-depth articles, inspiring photography, intrepid videos.

TripScout produces high quality audio guides and offline maps with a quirky twist that I really appreciate - they cover the highlights you'll obviously want to know but also slightly more obscure points of interest. I don't get to travel as much as I'd like to anymore but have also found the guides to be fun armchair traveling - I can learn about cities I'd like to visit someday. 

WeSideTrip is a curated directory of the best local events, getaways and unique experiences from around the world. New trips added everyday so get inspired, grab your group, and go explore!

Walk allows you to enter your free time and generate a walk. You can also search for a precise monument in the surrounding area and make your own selection. We decided to make a public beta so that you can share your thoughts too!

Listen to local radio stations while driving through the cities around the world.

Hey Makers! Today, we are launching Mapify, a smart and intelligent travel platform. With Mapify, we aim to eliminate googling from travel planning. Forget hours of searching 100 different tabs, Mapify does not only provide you with a beautiful tool to visualize journeys, it also connects spots travelers share with valuable information.

Windowseater.com, a home for mindful travel and compelling, high quality audio storytelling.

Can't travel now? Virtual Vacation is an easy to use travel hub that gives users the ability to walk, drive, fly and even view live footage from some 500+ cities from around the world! Not enough? Virtual Vacation even has interactive games!

YourTour enables anyone to create hyperlocal GPS-guided audiovisual tours via their phone in a matter of hours. Sync via Bluetooth for social exploring. So Tour Creators enjoy no technological barriers and no geographic boundaries to tell the story they’ve always wanted, while Explorers enjoy the immersive experience of exploring with a local.

Outguided is an online marketplace to discover and book the greatest in outdoor adventure. 1000s of hunting, fishing, skiing, diving, off-roading (and more) adventures at your fingertips. #getoutthere

Gesso is a creator and publisher of mobile audio tours. Through the Gesso app, available on iOS and Android, locals and travelers can explore cities while listening to audio stories that play based on where they are.

We have the new way people look for local personalized tours, and the way local guides or anyone who has a unique experience offers them. Making this process fast, easy, exciting and move it online.

GuruWalk is a platform to connect travelers (walkers) with local free walking tour guides (gurus), democratizing access to culture and promoting local economies, present in more than 100 countries and thousands of destinations.

Hewell is a virtual guide that finds interesting things around you whether you're in a new city or your home town. Use Hewell on the road during a vacation or in your neighborhood. Get to know your area's history and discover new places, and earn achievements.