For independent restaurants, hotels, shops, tours and attractions
Your business deserves to be discovered.
Get your restaurant, hotel, shop, tour, attraction, or local experience featured in Like A Local Guide. Reach travelers researching where to stay, eat, shop, and explore, and build your presence beyond your own website.
The Partner Kit covers pricing, what is included and next steps. No sales call required.
How travelers find the guide
Google Search impressions
8 September 2026 to 5 October 2026
Organic clicks from Google Search
Same period
Cities covered
With 7,060 venue listings
Measured in Google Search Console. An impression means the guide appeared in a search result; it is not a visit. These figures show how people find the guide. They are not a promise of traffic, bookings or results for any individual partner.
Ways to partner
Get your business in the guide from $75 a year.
Two simple annual options. Every listing is subject to editorial approval, and the Partner Kit has the full details.
Already listed?
Upgrade Your Listing
$75/year
- Expanded description
- Photos, where available and authorized
- A direct link to your website or booking page
For businesses already in the guide. Renews annually at $75.
Not listed yet?
Get Listed
$75/year
- Apply to join the guide
- If your business is a fit, we write and publish your listing
- Photos, plus your website or booking link
- Placed in the right city and category
Subject to editorial approval. Renews annually at $75.
Want more visibility?
Sponsored Editorial Feature
A dedicated, clearly labeled editorial feature about your business, written in our voice, with its own URL.
$125 one-time
Both listing partnerships are annual and renew at $75/year. The Sponsored Editorial Feature is a one-time $125. All placements are subject to editorial approval.
A real example
See how your business can appear in our guides.
San Francisco guide › Nightlife
The Barrel Room
Financial District
Why it matters: The Barrel Room is co-owned by sommeliers Sarah Trubnick and Carolyn Johnson, a woman-owned wine bar with a deep focus on small American producers you rarely see by the glass. The space is warm and unfussy, with a downstairs lounge that feels like a secret once the Financial District empties out. …
Good to know415 Sansome St · woman-owned wine bar & underground lounge · evenings
What you are looking at
A standard listing
This is a real listing from our San Francisco guide, shown as it appears today. We wrote it, chose the photo, and placed it in the right city and neighborhood.
An upgrade adds
- An expanded description
- Your own photos, where available and authorized
- A direct link to your website or booking page
- One year of upgraded status
Discovery beyond your website
Your website tells your story. The rest of the web helps travelers discover it.
Travelers plan trips with Google and, more and more, with AI assistants. When relevant third-party guides describe your business, people have more places to find you, understand what you offer, and consider a visit.
Branded web mentions still correlate highly with AI visibility.
Ahrefs analyzed 75,000 brands and found a strong correlation between mentions across the web and visibility in ChatGPT, Google AI Mode, and AI Overviews.
Correlation does not establish causation. A paid listing does not guarantee AI recommendations or search rankings.
Who we are
Built by local travel experts who understand independent businesses.
Like A Local Guide comes from the team behind Like A Local Tours, which has run walking food and culture tours since 2014. We see every day how hard it is for great local businesses to stand out.
We built these guides to help travelers find interesting, worthwhile places, and to send them to the independent restaurants, shops and guides that make a neighborhood worth visiting.
- Independent businesses first
- Responsible travel
- Authentic local experiences
Walking food and culture tours since 2014
Good to know
Questions businesses ask us
Straight answers on editorial independence, sponsored content and what partnering can and cannot do.
How does listing on Like A Local Guide help my business get discovered on Google and in AI search?
Travelers plan trips with Google and with AI assistants like ChatGPT, Gemini and Perplexity. These tools often draw on third-party sources such as travel guides, editorial coverage, reviews and directories, not just your own website.
A listing gives your business one more clear, structured presence on the web: who you are, where you are, what category you fit, what you offer, and what makes you worth choosing.
is described across the web by
- Your website
- Reviews
- Editorial & press
- Travel guides & directories
- Like A Local Guideone of several
Does paying get my business a better review or a higher ranking?
No. Partnering does not buy a positive review, an editorial opinion or a ranking. We write about every business accurately and fairly, and we will not call you the best in the city because you paid us.
Do you guarantee traffic, bookings, search rankings or AI recommendations?
No, and nobody honestly can. What we offer is another credible, structured place on the web where travelers and the tools they use can learn about your business. The traffic figures on this page describe how people find the guide overall, not results for any individual partner.
How is sponsored content labeled?
Sponsored content is always clearly labeled. A Sponsored Editorial Feature is marked as sponsored on the page, so readers know exactly what they are reading.
Can any business get listed?
Every listing is subject to editorial approval. We check that a business is a fit for the city and the guide before taking payment.
How does renewal work?
Both listing partnerships are annual and renew at $75/year. The Sponsored Editorial Feature is a one-time $125.
Is Like A Local Guide free for travelers?
Yes. Like A Local Guide stays free for travelers.
Do I need to get on a sales call?
No. The Partner Kit gives you pricing, what is included and next steps in one page. You can choose an option when you are ready.
Free, instant, no sales call
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Pricing, what is included and next steps, in one page. It opens right away after you send the form. No sales call required.
- What each option includes
- Exact pricing and renewal terms
- How we handle disclosure
- What happens after you choose
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