Who it is for
Travelers who want a private guided day out, including families and small groups with particular requirements.
ToursByLocals
Private tours booked directly with local guides
Overview
What ToursByLocals does
ToursByLocals connects travelers with guides who run private tours in their own city or region. Searches start with a destination, either a city or a country, and can be tightened with filters such as group size or how well a tour suits families.
Guides have profiles, and the profile is where the decision gets made: background on the guide, the tours offered, and availability against specific travel dates. Booking runs through that same profile once dates line up.
The emphasis throughout is the individual guide rather than a packaged product, so the catalogue is organized around the people who lead the tours in a given place.
What stands out
Selection happens at the level of the guide, with profiles and date availability, rather than a fixed tour listing.
Availability
Where ToursByLocals is listed
ToursByLocals is listed in the ChatGPT apps directory only. ToursByLocals has no connector under the same domain in the Claude directory; 392 of the 3,150 products here are on both marketplaces, and this is not one of them.
ChatGPT apps are built on MCP, and the same server can back a Claude connector, so the absence is a distribution decision rather than a technical one.
ChatGPT listing
In the ChatGPT apps directory
- Developer
- ToursByLocals
- Filed under
- Travel
- Listed since
- June 2026
- Authentication
- Authenticates when installed
- Website
- toursbylocals.com
- Policies published
- Privacy policy · Terms of service
- Official listing
- Open in ChatGPT
- Snapshot
- August 2026
Example prompts from the listing
- Suggestions for walking tours in Tokyo
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This is an independent catalogue entry compiled by Node8 from ToursByLocals's public marketplace listing as it stood in August 2026. Listing facts come from the marketplaces; the comparisons against the rest of the directory and any live-endpoint measurements are Node8's. Node8 is not affiliated with ToursByLocals, and inclusion here is not an endorsement.
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