A Travel Show with a Local Perspective
A good tour guide can make a destination come alive—better than any written guidebook can—with the personal insights and backstories of the locales and attractions they cover. However, day in and day out they’re often showing travelers the same touristy places in town, regurgitating the same spiel they said with their last group.
Where would tour guides really take their guests, if they could break out of this bubble? Where do they actually go when they’re off the clock?
Introducing a new spin on the travel show genre that will challenge tour guides to show their true colors and portray their hometown as it truly is, for better or for worse, doing the things they do when they’re OFF TOUR.
Episode One: Philadelphia
Erik spends the day with Tim McAleer of Founding Footsteps Tours to check out his favorite local businesses—most of them involving calorie consumption.
Episode Two: Helsinki
Erik hangs out with Kathrin Dieter to join her doing what she does to clear her mind and unwind: secondhand shopping for Finnish-designed collectibles.
Meet the Host
ERIK TRINIDAD is no stranger to adventuring around the world; he’s dedicated most of his adult life to global trips for over two decades, in pursuit of finding unique stories to share in print and digital form as an award-winning travel & food journalist, video creator and producer.
Over the years, his written bylines have included Travel + Leisure, Food & Wine, National Geographic Traveler, AFAR, Discovery.com, Lonely Planet, Fodor’s Travel, Thrillist, Smithsonian, InsideHook, Matador Network, and BBC Travel, to name a few. He’s also the author of Fancy Fast Food: Ironic Recipes with No Bun Intended, a satirical cookbook based on his award-winning eponymous food humor blog.
Off the pages, he’s also creator and host of two acclaimed YouTube series, Car Glamping, a how-to on elevated car camping once featured by Newsweek, and Plausibly Ridiculous, a science-meets-travel web series that’s not only been featured on Discovery’s Science Channel and National Geographic’s social media channels, but won Best Travel Series at the 2017 International Travel Film-
Fest, held in Cyprus. He’s also no stranger to television; he’s been a guest travel correspondent for The Weather Channel, and has also made appearances on Rachael Ray, Nightline, and National Geographic Channel’s Brain Games, the Emmy award-winning show in which he also worked with producers as a consultant behind the scenes.
Follow his on-going travels as @TheGlobalTrip on Instagram, YouTube, and YouTube Shorts, plus @TheGlobalTripOnTikTok.
Do you know a fun and engaging tour guide with a completely different life outside of guiding? Do you know a destination with local, unheard stories that haven’t been told? Partner with us! Email inquiries to offtourwitherik@gmail.com.