Toronto's newest Ghost Tour ready for Halloween

Online, October 17, 2009 (Newswire.com) - The Toronto division of Tour Guys is offering a nightly Ghost Tour to the public in the week leading up to and including Halloween, with a second special late night tour offered on Halloween. The tour is a blend of history and hauntings, and is appropriate for families. For the Tour Guys 'Toronto Ghost Tour', local Toronto high school teacher Neil Orlowsky has been recruited and is offering his original tour as part of the Tour Guys roster of urban walking tours.

Tour Guys is a tour guide cooperative founded by Jason Kucherawy and Steve Woodall. It's a cooperative in the sense that is comprised of independent tour guides (Like Jason and Steve) who offer their own tour (for a per person cost of $10-$30) and contribute some of their tour earnings to the cooperative in order to pay for marketing and promotion of all tours. Beginning this past May with just the free tours to generate buzz and a reputation as Tour Guys, Jason and Steve are opening up the cooperative to other guides in Toronto and Vancouver who wish to contribute their own custom tour to the mix and pay their share of the marketing costs to Jason and Steve. Guides will be accepted into the cooperative if they are fun and dynamic. Tour Guys tours emphasize what's cool, strange, or intriguing about the cities and offer a local's perspective. Tours are selected based on quality, marketability, and fun factor. The "Toronto Ghost Tour" is the first of such tours to be added.

"Many people ask if there is a catch, or if our free tours are sponsored somehow", says Jason Kucherawy, "I think they have a hard time believing that we are really doing this just for tips. When I tell them we also want to be famous, they understand. We're not just running walking tours, we're building a brand and the start of a following through social media like Facebook, Twitter, and YouTube." Tour Guys has recently posed a challenge to people to send them questions about Toronto and Vancouver that they will answer with a YouTube video. "The crazier the better. We're looking for questions that will give us an opportunity to answer in a way that's fun and would make a good one minute YouTube video", says Kucherawy, "Tour Guys is about interaction and making friends around the world. I think the new media like Facebook, Twitter and YouTube will help us grow and sustain a fan base."

About Tour Guys:

Started by Jason Kucherawy and Steve Woodall, two friends who met while working in the Toronto student and educational travel industry, Tour Guys is a cooperative of tour guides. Jason and Steve have asked select guides to join the Tour Guys cooperative and help them run the free walking tours. Member tour guides create their own custom tours which are offered on the Tour Guys website and in return they contribute a portion of their earnings towards the marketing and advertising costs. The tours put an emphasis on the cool, strange, and fun things in the city.