Tour Your Own City is a program developed by the Guides Association of New York City (GANYC) to offer the best tours in New York City specifically to New York-area residents. After months of being cooped up during the COVID-19 outbreak, our friends and neighbors throughout New York, New Jersey, Connecticut and Pennsylvania are itching to get out and explore the Big Apple, and there is no better, safer way to do that than with a licensed New York City tour guide. In addition to this website listing New York’s best tours, Tour Your Own City has an active social media campaign on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram. Use #touryourowncity to tag us!

TourYourOwnCity.com is not an e-commerce site. It is a portal that lists great tours all over New York City. We have made it super simple for you to find great tours that will pique your curiosity about The City that Never Sleeps. You can search for tours in several ways:

• Use the Search Bar on the Home Page to search for specific tours by interest, borough, day of the week, language, or type of tour (public, private, walking, etc).
• Click on the orange box on the left side of the search bar, and use the checkboxes to search for great tours.
• Click on the View Tours button at the top of each page to view tours grouped together by borough.

Once you find a tour you like, click on the link to read more details on that tour.

Click on the link at the bottom of the tour listing page, and you will be directed either to the the guide’s website for more information and to book your tour of New York City!

While enjoying the tour, take lots of pictures and be sure to tag us! #TourYourOwnCity #TYOC #AllinNYC.

Your health and safety are our primary concern. Please review the GANYC Health and Safety Guidelines here.

These guidelines were developed to keep all of our guests and tour guides safe in this new environment. The guidelines were developed in consultation with medical professionals, government officials, and travel-industry experts, and adhere to CDC and New York State health and safety guidelines.

All tours listed on Tour Your Own City have agreed to adhere to these health and safety guidelines.

In addition, GANYC has signed on to the Stay Well NYC Pledge developed by NYC & Company, the official tourism bureau in New York.

Tours are being added to our site all the time, and you will find tours to suit any interest. If you don’t find a tour specific to your interest, feel free to contact one of the tour guides on Tour Your Own City or at the GANYC website to craft a custom tour just for you!

Here are a few hints to help you find the perfect tours for you:

• Public tours are open to any member of the public to purchase a ticket, so on these tours, you will likely be with others you don’t know.  The itinerary is usually set in advance and usually cannot be customized.
• Private tours are experiences just for you and your group. No one else will be on the tour. These tours can often be customized according to your interests  — work with your tour guide to craft the perfect tour!
• You can also search for tours by the following parameters:
  • Day of the Week. Note that if a tour is listed as “By Appointment Only,” that means it is a private tour and you can work with the guide to find the perfect date for your tour experience
  • Location: Search by borough, or even by neighborhood
  • Tour Type: In addition to Public and Private Tours, you can also search for Walking Tours, Private Vehicle Tours, Boat Tours, Bicycle Tours, Subway Tours, and even Online/Virtual Tours
  • Interests: There are too many to list here, but some of the more popular tours cover subjects like History, Architecture, Food, Literature, Street Art, Movies & TV, and Celebrities.

To stay up to date on new tours being added to Tour Your Own City, be sure to sign up for our e-newsletter at the bottom of this page, or the bottom of the Tour Your Own City home page.

No. TourYourOwnCity.com is a listing site designed to be a one-stop resource for New York-area residents to find the best and most interesting tours in the Big Apple. Tour guides and operators listed on TourYourOwnCity.com receive 100% of the fees for the tours you book — we don’t take a single cent. Your booking will get revenue directly into the hands of tour guides at a time when these small businesses owned by your friends and neighbors need it most.

We hope to be adding new tours here all the time, and will send out a regular e-newsletter featuring tours, and other content about New York City! We will not share your information with anyone.

To stay up to date on new tours being added to Tour Your Own City, be sure to sign up for our e-newsletter at the bottom of this page, or the bottom of the Tour Your Own City home page.

Any licensed New York City tour guide can offer tours via Tour Your Own City. The service is free for GANYC members. For non-GANYC members and tour operators, there is a small fee to list your tours on TourYourOwnCity.com. To list your tours, click here.

TourYourOwnCity.com was designed by Alex at Boathouse Web Design.

A special thank you to Amada Anderson who did much of the early development work on the website.