InTouch photo1 photo2 design element

The knowledge, passion and insight of real people

Real Immersion
design element design element
InTouch
What We Do
All About Us
Press
FAQ
InTouch Community
Our Hosts
Travel Stories
Community Blog
Traveling?
Sample Itineraries
Plan your Trip
Your Reservation
Hosting?
Join InTouch
Your Application
" It is not down in any map; true places never are. "
-- Herman Melville
join intouch

join the InTouch world community !

The success of our venture depends on the participation of dozens of people like you who are willing to share your work and daily lives with visitors from abroad.

hosts

Cultural tourism is a rapidly-growing field: leisure Travel for personal enrichment. travel with links to the personality of a community and contact with its culture and its residents.

Our Clients

Our clients—your guests—are not looking for traditional tour guides. That's why they've come to us in the first place. We're making it possible for them to travel beyond the guidebooks and the usual tourist destinations to meet local people, not just service workers. To enhance their vacation by immersing themselves—even if it's only for a day or two—in the daily life and culture of their destination.

Our Team

Our team—that's you and your colleagues around Europe—have the opportunity to meet people who travel with a spirit of adventure and curiosity, a personally enriching experience. We know you have "other things to do," and that money alone isn't going to be the sole reason for your to participate. Still, we want this to be a financially worthwhile endeavor. Please ask for our fee proposals.

How will this work?

Our website will feature your photo, your name, your story, your suggested 2-day program, and the particulars of the host questionnaire you filled in. The rest of your information you provided on the questionnaire is to set up an administrative side for you with InTouch Travel. Privacy issues will be honored.

How will InTouch Travel work?

We created an InTouch Travel "gateway” to provide you, our hosts, with a platform to promote yourselves directly to guests. InTouch Travel acts as an agent for you, and you in turn provide services for a specified program to the guests.

Will there be a charge to be listed on the website?

InTouch will charge new hosts €100 to set up your profile, in addition to a €50 annual fee. New hosts will also be able to book guests directly through the InTouch platform in return for a referral fee or commission (please ask us for our fee proposal).


Do you offer different plans on your gateway?

Yes, you have two options. You can either accept InTouch's fee structure (please ask us for our fee proposal); or you can set your own fees. If you prefer to set your own fees you will make your own deals with guests referred to you by the InTouch website. You will inform them of your fees, do your own negotiating and you will be expected to remit a referral fee or commission per guest to InTouch Travel (please ask us for our fee proposal). For groups of 5+ please contact us for special conditions.

If I set my own fees how will guests know?

On the website it will say: "Some of our hosts (indicated with a symbol) prefer to deal with travelers directly. Click on their link and you will be in direct contact with the host to set dates, determine rates, and make your travel arrangements." Please ask us to provide you with our administrative details for this procedure.  

What does an itinerary look like?

We have some sample itineraries on this site.

design element design element