Why Hop A Tour

The world is better live.

Hop A Tour creates private live virtual tours that take your group out into the world with a professional guide who is actually there. Nothing is prerecorded. Your group can watch, talk, ask questions, and explore together as your guide livestreams from the streets of destinations around the world.

Professional guide livestreaming a walking tour through an old town street
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01 — Actually live

Not a video about a place. A guide standing in it.

Our livestream walking tours happen live, out on location. Your professional tour guide walks the streets in real time while streaming the experience to your group in full HD.

Hear the city around them, see what they see, and ask about whatever catches your attention along the way.

No prerecorded footage. No virtual backgrounds. Your guide actually is there.

Guide livestreaming beside a canal in Venice

02 — Professional local guides

Real guides. Real conversation.

A great tour isn't just about what you see. It's about who shows it to you.

Our live virtual walking tours are hosted by professional local guides who know their cities, their stories, and how to bring a group into the conversation. Ask questions by text or live mic throughout the experience and get answers from someone standing right where the story happened.

Local guide on a busy neighborhood street

03 — Private virtual tours

Your group gets the guide.

Every Hop A Tour experience is a private virtual tour. There are no strangers joining the livestream and no public audience competing for your guide's attention.

That means the conversation, pace, route, and content can revolve around the people who are actually there — whether you're planning virtual team building, a live virtual field trip, a community program, or a private experience for family and friends.

Team gathered around a screen for a private virtual tour

04 — Interactive virtual tours

Don't just watch. Go with them.

See something down a side street? Ask about it. Want a closer look? Say so. Have a question about the food in a shop window, the architecture overhead, or something your guide just mentioned? Ask.

Hop A Tour's interactive virtual tours are designed for conversation. Your group can talk with the guide throughout the livestream, turning virtual travel into an experience you're participating in together.

Watch. Talk. Ask questions. Explore together.

Market street scene seen from a guide's livestream

05 — Customized for your group

One tour doesn't have to fit everyone.

Start with one of our existing virtual walking tours or tell us what you have in mind. We can customize the route and content, adjust the tour length, and work with our guides to create a private experience around a particular interest, occasion, curriculum, or theme.

Looking for something bigger? We can also create multi-destination virtual tours, around-the-world experiences, and recurring tour programs for organizations and groups.

Quiet lane in Kyoto during a guided walk

06 — Accessible virtual travel

Bring the world to everyone.

Virtual travel makes it possible to explore together without everyone boarding the same plane, walking the same streets, living in the same city, or even being in the same room.

Participants can gather around one screen or join from different locations. Hop A Tour brings live virtual travel experiences to classrooms, workplaces, libraries, senior communities, nonprofits, families, and groups wherever they are.

Students watching a live virtual field trip together

07 — Go further

One city. Or make a world of it.

Your live virtual experience doesn't have to end after one 60-minute walking tour. Customize the length of your tour, connect professional guides across multiple destinations, or build a recurring series that takes your group around the world over weeks or months.

From one private livestream tour to an ongoing virtual travel program, we'll help create the experience around your group.

Multi-destination livestream tour street view

08 — Seamless livestreaming

You enjoy the tour. We run the rest.

Every Hop A Tour live virtual tour is supported by our team behind the scenes. We coordinate with the guide, prepare the livestream, and provide a Hop A Tour technical moderator during the experience so your organizer doesn't have to become tech support.

One link. No downloads. Full-HD livestreaming. Real support.

Canal-side street in Amsterdam during a live tour

Social proof

See why groups travel with Hop A Tour.

Prague's Old Town and Charles Bridge lit up at night
Communities
“Our residents really enjoyed the Prague nighttime tour. Michal was great.”
Activities coordinator, assisted-living community
A guide walking a canal-side street in Amsterdam
Education
“This was a great engagement and learning process for my students to have someone from the actual country that we are studying give in great detail information about the country's economy. I am very glad I chose this company and platform and will definitely use you again next semester.”
Professor Emma Davis — Economics, Loyola Marymount University
A live tour moment on a San Francisco street
Companies
“Thank you for helping arrange this for us, what a treat! Everyone had a great time and our guide was fantastic. Made me feel like I was actually travelling.”
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Destinations
1,200+
Groups hosted
5★
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About us

We built a window to the world. Then we put a guide in it.

Torii gate seen on a live guided walk

Hop A Tour was created around a simple idea: virtual travel could feel much more like actually going somewhere.

Instead of prerecorded virtual tours or passive travel videos, we built a way for professional tour guides to take people with them — live, outdoors, and in real time.

Today, Hop A Tour connects private groups with professional guides in destinations around the world through live, interactive virtual tours. Companies use our tours for virtual team building, employee events, and learning programs. Schools and universities take students on live virtual field trips. Libraries, nonprofits, senior communities, and other organizations use virtual travel to bring the world to their members. Families and friends explore together from wherever they happen to be.

The technology makes the connection possible. The people, places, questions, surprises, and conversations are what make it travel.