Press
Press kit
Figures as of 10 October 2026
GuideMeet is a free directory that connects people travelling overland with their own vehicle to independent local guides. There are no commissions and no intermediary: travellers read the profiles and contact guides directly.
This page exists for journalists and researchers. Everything below can be quoted, with attribution to GuideMeet. If you need a figure that is not here, ask and we will pull it.
In one paragraph
Overland travel means crossing countries with your own 4x4, motorcycle, camper, van or bicycle, often on unpaved roads and for weeks at a time. The hard part is rarely the vehicle. It is knowing which track is passable this season, which crossing needs a permit, and who to call when something breaks two hundred kilometres from the nearest town. That knowledge belongs to people who live there. GuideMeet makes those people findable.
The numbers
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521 independent local guides with an active profile.
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369 open overland trips and tours.
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By vehicle: 245 guides support 4x4, 138 camper or van, 123 motorcycle, 57 bicycle. A guide can support more than one.
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Best covered countries: Uganda, Tanzania, Kenya, Nepal, Morocco, Rwanda, Tunisia, Botswana.
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Free for travellers and for guides. GuideMeet takes no commission on anything agreed between them. Optional paid features may be introduced later.
All figures are live counts from the platform on 10 October 2026, not estimates.
What we can talk about
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Where independent local guides actually exist, and the large regions where almost nobody is listed.
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How solo overlanders use a guide for a single stretch rather than a whole trip: a desert crossing, a restricted zone, a border region.
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What local operators earn, what they struggle with, and why most of them are invisible online.
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The practical side of overland travel: permits, seasons, recovery, what goes wrong and how often.
The company
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GuideMeet LLC, registered in the United States.
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Operating the GuideMeet brand for overland guide matching since 2021.
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Website: www.guidemeet.it — the only website of this service.
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Apps published on the App Store and on Google Play by GuideMeet LLC.
Official channels
These are the only accounts we run. Other websites and profiles using a similar name are not connected to this service.
Images and logo
The logo and the photographs on the site can be used in articles about GuideMeet, without modification and with attribution. Photographs of guides and of their trips belong to the guides: ask us and we will ask them.
Contact
Write to legal@guidemeet.it with "Press" in the subject. A person answers, usually within a day. We can arrange interviews with local guides in most of the countries listed above, in English, Italian, French or Spanish.
