Independent Guides Working Together
The New York City
Tour Guide Cooperative
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The NYC Tour Guide Cooperative is a new group forming for licensed tour guides.
A cooperative or co-op is a business structure that is owned and democratically controlled by its member-owners who utilize its services.
This means that we work together to promote the business, but each have a role in the business. Members who use the cooperative own the co-op. Cooperatives are democratically controlled in that a person owning at minimum, one share of stock is entitled to one vote during member meetings.
Cooperative members finance the cooperative in a variety of ways. Each cooperative determines how the enterprise will be financed. Risk is limited to how much money a member has put into the business.
For this cooperative, we would each offer tours on our own through the platform. For more popular attractions, many of us can offer the tour, but we would use consistent timing and pricing to not be in direct pricing competition with each other. These prices and timing can be negotiated and voted on by the group.
For each tour booked through the platform, a fee would go to the booking platform and credit card company. then 10% of the fee would go into the collective. This would be used for marketing, site maintenance, taxes or fees and business expenses like accountants.
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