Connecting with the Community

Because memories and new friends are just waiting to be made. 
A trip is just a trip. But when you combine travel with an event such as a festival, a local cooking or yoga class, a band playing nearby...well that just transforms the trip into an experience you won't be in a hurry to forget.  

everfest: Find Festivals

What is it?
​Find festivals near you and around the world celebrating the arts, music, food, history, books, film and much more.

How everfest can enrich your travels:
Discover cool festivals in amazing places around the world and focus your travels around that event. A great way to meet people: wherever you are in the world you'll be surrounded by like-minded people out for a good time. 

everfest gives you all the necessary information about each festival including direct links to buy tickets, detailed reviews by previous festival-goers and helps in finding hotels and rentals nearby the festival grounds. See who else is attending and let others know about your own plans.
​The website is free to join and offers a premium VIP FestClub with additional perks. 

Yoga Trail

What is it? 
A completely free app displaying information about accessible yoga classes near you wherever you are in the world.

How Yoga Trail can enrich your travels: 
The Yoga Trail app makes finding a suitable yoga class on the go possible. Search near you for upcoming yoga events and get a 'drop-in' price along with contact and location information. The information is crowd-sourced, ensuring it's up to date and that small studios and private teachers are displayed as much as any large gym or franchise.

Gourmet on Tour

What is it?
​Organised travel around food and wine experiences, from one day trips to 3 days or week-long adventures complete with a knowledgeable local guide around the world.

How Gourmet on Tour can enrich your travels:
Learn about a local culture and its cuisine by embarking on a trip solely dedicated to food, wine, culture and cuisine. 

TravelStarter

What is it? 
Crowdfunding for tourism projects - help local companies in the travel and tourism sector around the world to raise funds to launch their big or small business ideas.

How TravelStarter can enrich your travels:
Get access to exclusive events or opportunities only available through TravelStarter such as chef-hosted dinners at a local restaurant looking to expand, tour a vineyard with a Sommelier trying to launch his website or take a tour with a local to help her start her own official touring company. Not only will you get a unique and insightful experience and share an intimate connection with a local, you'll know where your money is going: into the pockets of people who are striving to build their businesses, contribute to their community and make their way in the world. Who knows, maybe you'll use TravelStarter yourself one day to fund your business objectives!

Hostelite

What is it? 
Check in to a social network that's exclusive to the hostel you're staying in currently. This app enables you, a solo traveler (or with friends but always on the lookout for more!), to meet like-minded people around the world staying right there in your hostel. 

How Hostelite can enrich your travels:
Never feel lonely again: Get local food and social recommendations from fellow travelers and like-minded hosteliers, make new friends and drinking buddies and even find a new travel partner!

WorldPackers

What is it? 
Find unique places around the world to exchange your skills for accommodation

How WorldPackers can enrich your travels:
Meet people from all over the world, stay in amazing places, do a little bit of work for accommodation and enjoy the rest of your days off! My 18-year old self is just jumping at the idea of jetting off to paradise to live in a beach hut, work in a little family-run hotel in the morning hours and explore the vicinity on my bicycle for the rest of the day. Bliss. 

BandsInTown: Discover Live Music

What is it?
A free app to track your favourite artists' tour dates and discover similar events near you or around the world. 

How BandsInTown can enrich your travels:
Use on your travels to discover new local bands around the world, follow your own artists and attend a guaranteed-fun event with a massive group of like-minded strangers. 

The app displays artists that you track or similar, near you or in a chosen location, dates of concerts, direct links to purchase tickets, who else is going and the ability to share your attendance on social media. ​

BerghainTrainer

What is it? 
BerghainTrainer simulates you meeting Sven the doorman (not really him) at Berghain nightclub, gauges your face expression for anger, sadness, euphoria and amazement, and has you answer three questions correctly in order to be permitted entry. 

How BerghainTrainer can enrich your travels: 
If you have ever aspired to getting into Berlin's most notorious nightclub but can't get past Sven, practice first with the BerghainTrainer to see if you pass muster. (Although we can't guarantee getting the questions right mean you will get into the club!)
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​Now arrange your face accordingly and give it a go.

Traveling Spoon

What is it?
Traveling Spoon connects travellers with local, vetted hosts to share the joy of a homemade meal in their home, with the option to take part in the cooking of the meal and even tag along to the market to gather the ingredients. 

​How Traveling Spoon can enrich your travels:
Get the unique opportunity to meet locals in their own kitchen and share their country's cuisine with them, and get a cooking class to boot. You'll rarely get the chance to meet a stranger in such intimate circumstances than in their own kitchen

Cookly

What is it? 
Cookly brings food lovers and food professionals together to enjoy quality culinary experiences such as cooking classes, wine tastings, food tours and other tasty activities at home or on your travels.

​How Cookly can enrich your travels: 
Food and travel are natural companions. Who wouldn't want to eat the best local food available and on top of that, learn how to cook it from a local chef​?

BonAppetour

What is it?
Discover authentic local food dining experiences by connecting with home chefs in an area and attending a meal at theirs with other strangers. 

​How BonAppetour can enrich your travels:
Indulge yourself in authentic home-cooked food, make friends with like-minded people and have great fun - what more could you ask for?!

Flytographer

What is it? 
Book a local professional photographer in your destination to capture moments and memories from exquisite trips. 

​How Flytographer can enrich your travels: 
Forget selfies; get proper, professional style photos from your trip in beautiful locations with just you, your family or a group event you never want to forget, and keep the memories going forever​. 

Splitwise

What is it?
A totally free app to easily split bills and other expenses with groups of people. 

​How Splitwise can enrich your travels:
Forget splitting the bill in the restaurant or confusingly adding up different sums of money to pay a bill; let one person take care of the expense and easily log it in the app, assigning each person's amount owed to the person that paid. Have used this on holiday countless times and it has saved friendships from disaster and ruin. So handy!

HelloTalk

What is it? 
An interactive language and culture exchange community where you can chat with native speakers.

How HelloTalk can enrich your travels: 
Get an immediate connection to native speakers around the world helping you learn your desired language through text and voice messages, grammar correction and voice-to-text and text-to-voice tools, ensuring your learning is fast, efficient and robust. Ideal for people looking for company while learning.

Free app with a VIP membership for a low monthly fee that gets you perks such as removing ads and access to unlimited tools, languages and translations. 

duolingo

What is it? 
A free app to help you learn a language in a fun and smart way, with daily practice reminders, levels to complete and constant learning adjustments according to your personal strengths and weaknesses. 

How duolingo can enrich your travels:
duolingo puts the ability to converse with people in another language within reach. Science-based learning combined with fun games helps you attain your language goals in a faster, more effective and enjoyable way.

Krrb

What is it? 
Krrb (pronounced ‘curb’) is a local buy-and-sell marketplace, connecting your community with other communities around the world. Krrb describes itself as a 'fun, friendly and safe place to buy and sell with locals, wherever they may be'. 

How Krrb can enrich your travels: 
Buy and sell local items on the go, find flea markets and garage sales in the area wherever you are, and connect with local communities selling handmade or vintage goods. 

EatWith

What is it? 
EatWith offers a way for amateur (or professional) chefs to host a dinner party in their own home, and for foodies to connect with others in a relaxed and fun environment over a unique home-cooked meal.

How EatWith can enrich your travels: 
While travelling, you can use the EatWith app to search for events in your destination, attend a lunch or dinner hosted by locals, and find yourself meeting new people, both locals and travellers alike, and eating invariably-delicious meals with like-minded people.

EatWith Concierge99 & meet London locals!

That's right. We offer home-cooked meals through EatWith! Currently available in London (SE1), come join us for a delicious meal with head chef Siamac at the helm, cooking up a storm of his favourite recipes from around the world. Sign up here for our next event!