Tour Guides Editing and Proofreading Services

Somebody books a two-hour walking tour of the old town. They are seventy-eight, they use a stick on bad days, and the tour includes forty-one steps down to the crypt, a cobbled lane on a gradient, and no lavatory for ninety minutes. All of that is on the website in the phrase "suitable for most levels of fitness", and they will find out at the third stop.

We edit what tour guides and small tour operators produce — tour descriptions and their physical demands, accessibility and step-free information, duration, distance and terrain documentation, meeting point and arrival instructions, weather, clothing and footwear guidance, group size and private tour information, booking, cancellation and no-show terms, language, audio and hearing loop information, content warnings for difficult subject matter, and guidance for customers with specific requirements. Our editors work on the description somebody decides they can manage.

The physical description of a tour is what lets a visitor make an honest decision, and its failure is a reassuring adjective. "Suitable for most levels of fitness" is written to avoid deterring anybody and it deters nobody until they are on the tour. We write these so the tour's demands are stated as facts a person can measure themselves against — the total distance, the number of steps and where they are, the steepest section, the longest continuous period standing, the surfaces underfoot and whether any of it is uneven; so the lavatory situation is stated with where and when, since this is the single most common reason older visitors avoid tours and almost no description mentions it; so what can be skipped is named, because a visitor who knows they can wait in the square while the group goes down to the crypt can still book; so the step-free alternative is described if one exists and honestly ruled out if it does not, given that a vague accessibility statement is worse than a clear no; so the seating opportunities are listed, as three benches in two hours changes the decision for a lot of people; so the weather exposure is described, since a tour with no shelter in July is a different proposition; and so the meeting point is described as somebody unfamiliar would find it, with what is nearby rather than an address. Descriptions written this way sell more tours, not fewer.

Everything you send is treated in confidence, including tour content, itineraries and customer correspondence. We are editors rather than accessibility or tourism advisers, and we offer no view on your tours, their suitability or access. What we can do is let a visitor judge honestly before they book.