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Rate Your Guide With OurExplorer.com

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You’ve heard of Rate My Professors, right?

Well now, a new travel site offers a similar service - for local tour guides.

OurExplorer.com let’s you browse listings for hundreds of guides in dozens of countries, read reviews from other travelers, and rate your own guide after your trip.

The idea isn’t to get everyone signed up on large-scale bus tours - instead, OurExplorer aims to support local small businesses and independent guides, strengthening the grassroots economy and increasing interactions between locals and their visitors.

I’ve never been one for guided tours, but that’s a pretty compelling pitch, don’t you think?

Photo by Randy Son Of Robert (Creative Commons)

Eva Holland

Eva Holland is co-editor of Matador Pulse and a regular contributor to the Matador Network. She's also a contributing editor at World Hum. Eva recently quit her day job and gave notice on her apartment, and is currently bouncing around Eastern Ontario, Quebec and upstate New York.

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