Backstreet Academy

Travel Different

Friday, June 26, 2015

We are a travel platform that empowers locals in developing countries to create their own tour, workshop or activity for travellers, resulting in a very unique and authentic experience and cultural exchange that cannot be found anywhere else. We enable anyone to be able to use our platform without a need to know English nor access technology, and thus is able to obtain the most exclusive experiences with the most amazing people who also happens to need help. They get direct access to the tourist market with our infrastructure handling bookings, marketing and payments plus the training we provide to help them host tourists. In a way, we built this product for ourselves to discover new and interesting people and experiences and enable us to travel responsibly by enabling direct revenue sharing with the locals. Imagine a boxing class with a local champion in Phnom Penh, learning to make crossbows in Luang Prabang with expert hunters or moulding your own pottery from a master potter in Kathmandu. These are the type of experiences you’ll never be able to find anywhere else, held in a local’s house usually with the type of hospitality you read of in memoirs and you leave knowing that you have impacted them directly whilst according them the respect by learning from them.