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Food Tours Growing In Popularity
A guide with fifteen years of experience explains why food has moved from a lunch break to the heart of the tour, what guests want and what it asks of guides.
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Hot to connect Bokun to GuidesUnited
How to link your Bókun account to GuidesUnited with an OCTO token so both calendars share one set of dates and seats, plus what syncing does and what to know.
GuidesUnited updates
Platform updates October 2026
October 2026 guide updates: requests paid on acceptance, a new dashboard, setting search, group messages, AI editor helpers, guide photos on cards, and more.
GuidesUnited updates
Platform updates September 2026
September's guide updates: pay in person, tours drafted in your other languages, city and language pages, several pickup places, an easier tour editor, and a notification bell.
GuidesUnited updates
Platform updates August 2026
What GuidesUnited built for guides in its first two weeks: private tour requests, booking from your own site, language options, guest booking, invoices and tour editor changes.
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How you can help GuidesUnited grow
Ways guides and travellers can help GuidesUnited grow, from telling other guides and sharing tours online to lending a skill and sending feedback.
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The Vicious Cycle of Booking Platforms
How booking platforms move from useful startups to lock-in, rising fees and identical catalogues, with travellers and guides paying for an advertising race.
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Douro and Lavaux: Two Wine Valleys, Two UNESCO World Heritage Landscapes
How Portugal's Douro Valley and Switzerland's Lavaux, both UNESCO-listed terraced wine landscapes, compare in history, grapes and ways to visit.