REFERENCE
Budapest Beyond Sightseeing was founded in 2007.
In 2010 Budapest Beyond Sightseeing was dedicated with ’Józsefváros díj’ the local prize for outstanding initiatives by the local government.
In 2009 Budapest Beyond Sightseeing was identified as a ’Good practice’ by the European Commission.
In 2008 we won the ’Most promising youth enterprise’ award.
Our main activity is developing, organizing and guiding quality and creative walking tours in Budapest. Beside our regular guided tours we develop specialized walks and city discoveries for groups, companies, institutions and private persons.
„Beyond Budapest gives visitors a real experience. Rather than just show tourists the places they've read about in guidebooks, the guides at BB show the city's underlying history ...
And they tell the stories that made Budapest the place it is today. The tours of the 8th district - Jozsefvaros - gave me a deeper of understanding of the city's culture, its past, and its future.”
/Alex Crevar, journalist, New York Times, 05-05-2010 /
Have a look at our slideshow about some tour participant celebrities!
SOME OF OUR REFERENCES:
2011
- 'Studio Art Tour' - contemporary art tour in association with the Studio of Young Artists Association.
- Walking tours for travel writers of Vagabond travel magazine.
- 'Socio-cultural walking tour' for American students of Calvin College Semester in Hungary.
- 'Secret-Sights Budapest Downtown tour' for the teachers of Österreichisch-Ungarische Europaschule Budapest.
- 'Socio-cultural walking tour' for the Swiss guests of Mondial Travel Agency.
- we designed a 'Roma Budapest' thematic tour to the 'Roma Net' network's project managers. The tour was ordered by the City Council of Budapest.
- we developed an alternative 8th district tour to the Ringier Publishing Ltd.
- the colleagues of Budapest's Royal Norwegian Embassy did a Socio-cultural walk
- Budapest Palace quarter tour to the group of the Swedish Embassy
- we developed four thematic Budapest tour to the Moving District 2011 artists
- we developed a Hungarian culture course for exchange students of the faculty of Social Sciences - Eötvös Loránd University
- socio-cultural walking tour for Finland Turku University art history students
- four groups of the British Energy Employees joined four thematic Beyond Budapest tours
- the Hungarian Women Lobby's guests did a Budapest slummy walk with us
- Corvinus University guest group did a Juice of the 8th district walking tour
- socio-cultural walking tour for students of Studienkolleg zu Berlin
2010
- socio-cultural walking tour for the Summer University students of the Central European University
- Budapest Palace quarter incentive tour for the Riverside Kft. Budapest;
-’Jewish Budapest’ working out and operating specialized interactive walking tours named ’The Juice of the 8th district’ in co-operation with Bálint Jewish Community Center;
-’Budapest water tour’ organizing and guiding a specialized study program for Windesheim University students;
- walking tours for exchange students in the 8th district on assignment of the ELTE University;
- we guided ’living history classes’ for Budapest high schools such as:
Trefort Ágoston High School;
Budai Ciszterci Szent Imre High School;
Eötvös József High School;
- exchange programs: we regularly guide city walks for Hungarian and international students and exchange students.;
- team building: companies choose our services as team building activity, because they are looking for quality community culture programs;
2009
- ’Think twice’ working out and guiding 4 thematic art tours (the creative 8th / faces and markets of the 8th / saints and devils of the 8th / the elegant 8th) for international artists;
- working out and guiding a thematic tour in the Corvin-Szigony city rehabilitation area, for the Ringier company;
- ’European Heritage days’ working out and guiding a thematic sacral walking tour;
- working out and guiding a thematic walk for locals along the Rákóczi street at Common-Place festival on assignment of the studio Metropolitana Nonprofit Kft. ;
- ’Good practice’ presentation in Brussels in the ’European Year of Creativity and Innovation 2009’
- developing 6 city discovery games on assignment of the Tempus Public Foundation;
- sightseeing tours for travel writers on assignment of the Hungarian National Tourist Office;
- one day special guiding for the international meeting of the Mind Control Method’s teachers, and founders (such as the boss of the organization: dr. Rosa Rivas from Mexico)
- private guiding for Isamu Fukuji international bestseller author on assignment of the Hungarian publisher of his book, the Ulpius Ház.
2008
- Budapest guided tour for international journalists on assignment of the Hungarian Cultural Center New York;
-’European Heritage days’ contemporary art tour in the 8th district.
- urban rehabilitation walk for investors in co-operation with the local government;
- sightseeing tours for travel writers on assignment of the Hungarian National Tourist Office.