American Liberty Tours
Carris Kocher, Owner, APT Certified Tour Guide
Services: American Liberty Tours (ALT) offers walking tours on site, or we can bring the tour to you with a PowerPoint slide presentation. ALT also offers historical presentations with or without PowerPoint. Any tour or presentation can be adjusted for particular age groups, old or young, or both!
Additional Info: APT members can receive a 10% discount.
For more information, check out our website.
American Vegan Center
Vance Lehmkuhl, Director, APT Certified Tour Guide
Services: American Vegan Center (AVC) offers Veg History tours in Old City, walking the same streets as historic figures such as Benjamin Lay, Anthony Benezet, the Grimke Sisters, Sylvester Graham, Bronson Alcott, Alfoncie Austin and even Benjamin Franklin — all these and more helped move Philadelphia’s vegetarian and vegan history forward. Many people, even vegetarians and vegans, are unaware that the US vegetarian movement started in Philadelphia in 1817.
Additional Info: In addition to our scheduled tours we can schedule group tours and private tours to suit individual needs. Mention finding AVC on this APT website when calling or emailing to book a tour and get 40% off.
For more information, check out our website.
Campo’s
Mike Campo, Owner
Services: Since 1947 the Campos have been cranking out some of Philly’s best sandwiches! Perfectly marbled rib-eye cheesesteaks, old school hoagies, homemade soups, fresh salads and gluten free options. Check out the Best Of Philly Lunch Box for easy group meals! Military discounts & local beer specials.
For more information, check out our website.
Carpenters’ Hall
Michael Norris, Executive Director
Carpenters’ Hall is a National Historic Landmark site in Independence National Historical Park that is owned and managed by The Carpenters’ Company of Philadelphia, founded in 1724 and now the country’s oldest trade guild and membership association.
Services: The site is free and open to the public from 10 am to 4 pm Tuesday-Sunday (Wednesday-Sunday in January and February). Tour groups are welcome to visit without advance notice during regular business hours.
Additional Info: Private tours can be arranged for APT members. Contact Carpenters’ Hall staff for details.
For more information, check out our website.
City Saunter LLC
David Soltesz, Owner, APT Certified Tour Guide
Services: Walking tours
Specialty Tours: I am offering the Colonial Corpse Tour. It encompasses visiting human burial sites in the Philadelphia neighborhoods of Old City and Society Hill. The main narrative describes mortuary rituals of the original European settlers of the U.S. and how they change over time and are still changing. The tour is designed as a conversation with all involved about the subject of Death and human body disposal and how we humans dealt and continue to deal with it. The 90-minute tour is $20.
Additional Info: APT members can get 50% off.
For more information, check out my website.
Dialogue Institute of Temple University
David Krueger, Executive Director, APT Certified Tour Guide
Services: Dialogue Institute tours capture Philadelphia’s unique place in American history as the birthplace of religious freedom and democracy. We aim to foster an appreciation of religiously diverse, democratic societies while encouraging dialogue about how the past can speak to American civic life today.
Specialty Tours: Our tours can be customized to specific themes, time periods, topics, or regions of the city. Extended versions of tours can be conducted over multiple days or weeks and can incorporate lectures by local scholars, dialogue training, and facilitated dialogue experiences with local communities. Programs can be adapted for a variety of groups (high school, college, older adults, academics, religious, etc.)
For more information, visit our website. Email tours@dialogueinstitute.org for further inquiries.
Elfreth’s Alley Association
Josh Hitchens, Museum Operations Director
Elfreth’s Alley is one of the oldest continuously inhabited streets in the United States, celebrating 300 years of history. Due to community efforts beginning in 1934, the alley was saved from demolition and preserved as a national historic landmark.
Services: The Elfreth’s Alley Museum allows visitors to see the insides of two houses dating back to 1755 and learn about the people who lived there in the 18th, 19th, and early 20th centuries. We have two major fundraising events every year: Elfreth’s Alley Day in June and Deck the Alley in December – in which residents of the alley open up their homes and visitors enjoy vendors, performances, and special programs for all ages.
For more information, check out our website.
GuruWalk: History Swiftly
Tom Swift, Owner, APT Certified Tour Guide
Services: I offer a free* walking tour of Philadelphia, a city teeming with rich and fascinating history. From iconic landmarks to hidden gems, my tours are designed to immerse you in the events and people that shaped our nation.
For more information, check out my website.
Histoire(s) de voir Philadelphie
Magali Girerd, Owner, APT Certified Tour Guide
Services: Walking tours and step-on bus tours – all in French with a native speaker.
Specialty Tours:
In Philadelphia: city tours, history tours in Old City, art tours (Murals and public Art, Barnes Foundation, Philadelphia Museum of Art, Rodin Museum…)
In the surrounding area: Valley Forge tours, Longwood Gardens tours, Amish country tours.
For more information, check out my website.
Historic Gloria Dei Preservation Corporation
Amy Grant, HGDPC Board Chair
Services: Guided tours of the church and graveyard, walking tours of Queen Village neighborhood, lecture series and other special events throughout the year.
For more information, check out our website.
Landed Gentress
Lady Danni (Denise-Nanette Morinich), Owner, Tour Guide
Services: Lady Danni (she/her/crone) is a good lady forager, and crafter of herbals helping people reconnect with the healing power of nature. She explores the edible and medicinal qualities of the “plants formerly known as weeds.”
Specialty Tours: She hosts urban foraging tours in Philadelphia, for both private groups and as part of Wild Foodies of Philly, and she is an advocate for urban green spaces, community gardens and land sovereignty. She also host workshops including salve making, tincture & elixirs, switchels oxymels & flavored vinegars and creating seedballs.
Additional Info: Customers who mention APT can get 10% off. APT members are welcome to any of her free tours throughout the season.
For more information, check out her website.
Miles Table
Michael Lynch, Miles Table
Services: Miles Table is Philadelphia’s #1 choice for boxed lunches, breakfast catering, and hot & cold buffet service.
Additional Info: Enjoy 10% off with promo code PHILLYTOURS when ordering online. Tour Guides Love Us — And Your Guests Will Too!
For more information or to order, check out their website.
Jim Murphy Communications
Jim Murphy, Owner, APT Certified Tour Guide
Services: Walking tours, step-on tours, short tours, 1 and 1/2-day tours and do-it-your-way tours … for people who really want to discover what makes Philadelphia different from any other city in the U.S.
Specialty Tours: “Penn and Ben” (William Penn and Ben Franklin), “The Amazing Success of William Penn” (Powerpoint), “Philly Tough Women,” “3 Philly Naval Heroes,” “Why the Mason-Dixon Survey Started in Philadelphia,” “William Penn Jane’s Walk” and more.
Additional Info: As the writer of a popular book by Temple University Press called Real Philly History, Real Fast, I bring a fun-fact focus to my tours.
For more information, check out my website.
Offbeat Philly
Fayge Horesh, Owner, Tour Guide
Services: Walking tours that make the history of Philadelphia and its surrounding area fun and accessible to visitors and locals alike.
Additional Info: Members of the general public and APT members can use the promo APTWEB for a 10% discount.
For more information, check out our website.
Philadelphia Visitor Center Corporation
The Philadelphia Visitor Center Corporation is a Pennsylvania nonprofit, 501(c)3 organization, which operates in cooperation with Visit Philadelphia®, the Philadelphia Convention and Visitors Bureau, the City of Philadelphia, National Park Service and the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania.
Services: The Philadelphia Visitor Center Corporation facilitates the operation of the Independence Visitor Center, the primary point of orientation for Independence National Historical Park and the official visitor center of the Philadelphia region, including Bucks, Chester, Delaware, and Montgomery Counties. Philadelphia Visitor Center Corporation operates the LOVE Park Visitor Center, City Hall Visitor Center, Philly PHLASH Downtown Loop transit service, and the private event space, The Liberty View at Independence Visitor Center.
For more information, check out our website.
Philly Magic Tours Company
Robert Malissa, Owner, Tour Guide
Services: Philly Magic Tours Company has created a walking tour that is also a walking magic show. Your guide is an award-winning magician who blends magic and history. The tour goes through Old City Philadelphia past historic and a few offbeat locations. The history of each location is the inspiration for a fun and mind-bending magic trick. An example stop is the 2nd Bank of the U.S. Attendees are shown reproductions of state and city paper currencies before the Legal Tender Act of 1862. Once the act was passed, a common national currency was established. As this is explained, the reproductions instantly change to common, one dollar bills.
Additional Info: A slideshow presentation of the locations/magic show is also available.
For more information, check out my website.
PhillyPHAT: Philadelphia Historic Architecture Tours
Reid Addis, Owner, APT Certified Tour Guide
Services: If you only have two to three hours in Philadelphia, spend them getting to know this historic city through an architectural walking tour. We offer organized and thought-provoking Philadelphia tours, both public and private. We take your family and friends through a memorable Philadelphia sightseeing trip and a fun historic and architectural outing.
Specialty Tours: Experience our historic World Heritage city through the eyes of an architect. Every building in Philadelphia has a story to tell, from the materials, technology, and styles favored when it was constructed, to the people who designed, built, lived and worked there. Events of historic proportion take place in and around buildings as well. Come with me, a licensed architect, on this journey to discover all the secrets each building on our tour is waiting to tell us.
Additional Info: APT members are welcome to join an already scheduled public tour for free (limit 2 people per tour).
For more information, check out my website.
Philly Town T-Shirt Company
Rich Armandi, Owner
Philly Town 76, through our on-line Souvenir Shop, offers historic apparel and merchandise to celebrate events and activities commemorating the historic events of Ben Franklin, the Founding Fathers, and the historic sites in Early American History where those events took place.
Services: T-Shirts, Hoodies, Tote Bags, Hats, Mugs and Memorable Merch; blogs, social media posts, & self-guided tours – many featuring Boogie Ben and the Founding Fathers Band, with a message of music, fun, celebration and unity. Boogie Ben Promotions develops sales and marketing material with a notable historic perspective. Boogie Ben and the Founders Band are available to educate, unite, and engage your customers, local team, civic group, or workforce. A pragmatic modern-day message delivered with an Early American theme.
Additional Info: Profit sharing opportunity for APT members with discounts for guests on tour. Custom APT Merch also available on the site at 20% discount. Percentage of all sales to APT. Contact Rich at boogieben76@gmail.com to sign up.
For more information, check out our website.
SeeMyPhiladelphia
Lois Linden, Owner, APT Certified Tour Guide
Services:
Private tours for groups of 2 -50. At your date and time. Seeing what you want to see.
For groups over 5 people: Walking and/or your vehicle.
For groups of 4 or less: walking, driving, (my vehicle) or a combination. 3 hours, or more hours can be added.
Specialty Tours: Most opt for Historic Philly, but many others draw up their own itinerary around town.
Additional Info: Customers who mention the APT website can get 10% off. APT members may attend any tours for free.
For more information, check out my website.
Tours by Gorshin
Maria Gorshin, Owner, Tour Guide
Services: Each one of our tours combines exploring, walking, tasting, connecting with locals, and features fun blended with history. Every tour is a customizable experience designed to bring you closer to everything about Philadelphia you arrive hoping to see and unexpected sights, tastes and stories that will inspire you to return again and again.
Specialty Tours or Topics: While in Old City/Historic Philadelphia, we walk the nation’s most historic mile visiting not only where history took place but where the history makers lived, worked, dined, and worshipped. Our tours also take you into the heart of modern-day Philadelphia covering neighborhoods like Center City, Rittenhouse Square, The Gayborhood, and the visually stunning “museum row” that is Benjamin Franklin Parkway.
For more information, check out my website.
Tours by TR, LLC
Tom Rosenberg, Owner, Tour Guide
Services: Guided walking tours of the historic district. Private tours of historic district, art museum area or city-wide tours available by appointment. Step-on tours available as well.
Additional Info: Customers who mention the APT website can get a 10 percent discount on an adult ticket. APT members can contact Tom about other discounts.
For more information, check out my website.
Travel Echoes LLC
Marianne Ruane, Owner, APT Certified Tour Guide
Services: Philadelphia city walking tours (particularly historic district), step-on bus tours, school groups.
Skills:
*Russian language
*Guiding since 2012
*Good with children and international groups
*Certified meditation teacher
For more information, email mruane68@yahoo.com.
Visit Philadelphia
We’re the region’s official leisure tourism marketing agency. Our mission is to build Greater Philadelphia’s image, drive day and overnight visitation and boost the economy. Plus, we increase the number of visitors who come, the frequency in which they come, the number of nights they stay and the number of things they do. These marketing efforts enhance residents’ quality of life and civic pride.
Services: Everything we do — our advertising, communications, website (visitphilly.com), social media, podcast, event and attraction promotion, hotel packages, product development and even playing up Philly’s starring role in pop culture — gives Philadelphia a voice and strengthens the ever-evolving Philadelphia brand.
For more information, check out our website.