Prior to 2013, Alexandre Vendé was a PE teacher in Bordeaux and a travel enthusiast in New York. And it’s seeing “a friend who had a website and who earned 700 euros a month”, recounting his travel adventures, he created a blog in New York after returning from his honeymoon. Then followed the paper guide and the mobile application. And in 2022, Travel in French has eight employees in Bordeaux, e “25-30 expatriate guides”. Organizing guided tours (Central Park bike ride, Harlem guided tour) is now his main business.
On the other hand, the Covid period, which US borders closed it was a shock, explains Alexandre Vendé in The new eco, this Monday 12 December. He who had just launched a guide to the American West, also proposed visits to Europe, Barcelona, Rome and… Bordeaux.
with private bathroom, “fortunately the state was there, with partial unemployment”, he said. But Covid has not deterred people from traveling as he sees 2022 figures approaching 2019. For him, “Cities like New York always make you dream, it will be hard to stop traveling in a city like this”.
