India is rich with extraordinary trails — and short on people who can guide others through them with genuine knowledge and passion. If you know a place, a craft, a cuisine, a forest better than most, we'd like to hear from you.
What this is
A WYT Guide is not a licensed tour operator. It is not a job posting or a commercial arrangement. It is an invitation to people who love something deeply — a trail, a tradition, a landscape — and want to help others experience it.
India's tourism industry is strong on logistics and weak on knowledge. The best experiences often have no guide at all — or a guide who knows the route but not the story. WYT is trying to change that, one trail at a time, by finding the people who already carry that knowledge and connecting them to travellers who deserve it.
The first WYT Guides will be the founding cohort — a small group of passionate local experts who help us build the guide programme from the ground up. Their names will be on the trails they help create.
Two types of guide
You know a trail — a walk, a journey, a deep experience — and you can lead other travellers through it. Not necessarily as a licensed guide, but as someone who understands the place and can give it meaning.
You know a trail exists but you're not ready to lead groups through it. You can help us research it, verify the operators, write the description, and ensure it's represented accurately.
Trails that need you
These trails are in the WYT directory but don't yet have a guide or a quality operator. If one of these is yours — if you know this trail better than most — we'd love to hear from you.
Don't see your trail? The form below has an open field. Tell us what you know and we'll figure out together where it fits.
Apply
Tell us who you are, what trail you know, and why. We respond to every application personally.
"The best guides are the people who would have gone anyway."
— WYT