About
TLB FRANCE
TLB France is an incoming tour operator offering responsible travel experiences that take you off the beaten path and through civilizations and cultures of the past and present. Our adventure and discovery itineraries are designed to highlight the historical and cultural heritages with an emphasis on contact with the local community. We firmly believe that authentic encounters with the local people are an important component in creating genuine moments that’ll stay with you forever.
TLB France was founded by travel experts with over 25 years of experience in tailored itineraries and adventure travels in the Middle East. Today we’re opening up a new horizon and using our expertise and personal approach to share with you all the secrets of France and the diversity of the people who make its culture unique.
France, where living is an art, forever nurtures its history, its culture and its gastronomy. Fashion and luxury, spectacular mountains and volcanos, picturesque villages, dynamic cities; you’ll have an exciting choice of experiences waiting for you. And if all gets too much, watching the world go by from the terrace of a café is also a perfect way to feel France.
Here at TLB France, we want to share all this with you but also take you beyond the obvious beauty offered throughout the hexagon. Let’s knock on the door of French citizens in Alsace, Provence or Bordeaux and enter their world. Let’s enjoy a visit of a museum after hours. Or let’s uncover the hidden treasures of Parisians villages. There are so many ways of (re)discovering this stunning country and we’re here to help you design a trip tailored to you that’ll take you deeper in the heart of real France.
programs
THEMES
Spend a night with a local family, share a meal with them and discuss their daily concerns about life, family, work, gastronomy, politics, and customs; enjoy the pace of life here and take your time exploring with your host the genuine art of French living… Then, you return home with happy moments that carried your dream beyond time and distance…
For TLB France, the trip’s authenticity lies in the essence of those charming encounters; to live, breathe, and taste the destination as seen through the eyes of the locals. Therefore we conceive our programs as experiences designed with care, attention, and respect towards the local cultures and with responsibility, professionalism, and creativity towards you, our visitor.
Our programs range from preconceived to tailored, span a few hours to weeks, cater to individuals to company groups, and cover an a array of themes meeting your diverse interests:
We share with you the experience of a specific city / village, immersing you in the life and stories of the community and its people through encounters & activities.
We share with you our love for adrenaline-charged activities and adventure while discovering, on a personal level, the sensational French natural heritage.
We share with you a passion to explore history and to uncover all the secrets of France’s past of unfamiliar customs and rich cultural heritage.
ehtical commitments
RESPONSIBLE TOURISM
We design our trips to promote mutual understanding and respect between the locals and the tourist to the benefit of local communities.
We travel in small groups, accompanied by local tour leaders, relying on locally owned accommodation, restaurants, and transportation while encouraging the use of recyclable materials on our trips.
We speak the language of the local culture, we share their homemade meals, and we even spend the night over.
team
TOUR LEADERS
As the tour leader is the window to the local culture, (s)he is the keeper of an authentic and genuine experience of the trip with a responsibility towards a safe, comforted, and happy tourist.
Quality of service is in his/her hands; a lot is expected of him/her!
Therefore, we emphasize the training of our tour leaders as local community members experienced in: leading the group, managing its needs, encouraging its dynamics, promoting responsible tourism, sharing cultural and historical knowledge, and providing first aid.
FACILITATORS
In our "Experiences & People" programs, we believe local professionals are the contemporary versions of tour leaders. Nowadays, they are the facilitators of unique authentic experiences. Yet since quality service remains in their hands, we, at TLB France, carefully identify the facilitators we partner with as both:
Local professionals of artistic, cultural and social practices (architects, political analysts, designers, performers, craftspeople, sociologists, ...) with experienced skill sets, unique perspectives of their city / village, and an interest in the exchange and encounter with others.
Local professionals who align with TLB’s professional and quality service standards. We also train them in our leading training program.
Our Head Office IN EUROPE
SAS au capital de 50 000 Euros
RCS Paris 892 080 722
TVA Intracommunautaire : FR 53 892 080 722
Garant : APST
Assurance RCP : HISCOX SA France
Immatriculation ATOUT France : IM075210021
Office hours: Mon-Fri 9 AM to 6 PM
28 Rue des Colonnes du Trône 75012 Paris, France
Tel: +33 (6) 79 11 98 99
Email: contact@tlb-france.fr
Our Head Office IN MIDDLE EAST
Office hours: Mon-Fri 9 AM to 6 PM
BLF Building, Main Road, Rabieh, Lebanon
Tel: +961 4 41 98 48
Email: contact@tlb-destinations.com