Free Walking Tour

Free Walking Tour – free of charge walking tour, where participants give tips tour guide for his work. Guide can take money or give it to his Free Walking Tour organization. Free Walking Tour typically has a schedule. Weather and number of coming participants doesn’t matter.

History
The movement appeared in 2004 in Berlin. According to the portal freetoursnetwork in 2016 free walking tour exists in 206 cities in 75  countries around the world.  

The logotype Free Walking Tour has often picture of the legs or left traces.

Analogy

The concept of Free Walking Tour in the tourism branch can be compared with a freeware on the IT-market. Free software can be an advertising of the commercial product or its manufacturer. The organizers of the Free Walking Tour often provide some business services such as a shuttle service, different entertainment, thematic, motorized and individual tours; however, the free tour model has developed as a hugely popular way to tour cities in its own right in recent years, with more and more tour companies offering free walking tours exclusively, such as [https://www.generationtours.com/dublin
 Generation Tours in Dublin], Ireland, for example. Following this trend, online platforms offering free walking tours were also created. The first such platform was [https://www.freetour.com/
 FREETOUR.COM] in 2014. In Spain, local initiatives also emerged, such as [https://sevillapie.es/
 Free walking tours Seville by Sevilla a Pie], offering cultural experiences with accredited local guides. Later, other platforms of this type started, such as [https://www.guruwalk.com/
 GuruWalk] in 2017. The concept can be a little confusing, the traveler has to pay the guide at the end of the tour based on his experience. This concept is commonly referred to as a pay-what-you-please walking tour, because it empowers the client to pay based on their satisfaction with the tour and encourages the guide to always do their best. Free Walking Tour guides can be compared with the street performers who entertain passers-by and offer for donations as well as compared to history professors who bring a city and its stories to life. Because tour guides only work for gratuities, the quality of a free tour tends to be significantly and consistently better than traditional "pay first" tours, which can take advantage of unknowing travelers.

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