Is Townbase a single product or a platform?

Townbase is a platform — a suite of products built on shared infrastructure. You can use a single component like a widget or API, or deploy a full white-label city guide. Most customers start with one product and expand over time.

Do I need a developer to get started?

Not necessarily. A full branded city guide can be up and running in around two days with no development work. If you want to build custom experiences using our API or embed widgets into an existing site, a developer will be useful — but the barrier is low.

Is this only for cities and municipalities?

No. Cities and municipalities are a core customer segment, but Townbase powers event discovery for media organisations, tourism boards, destination marketing organisations, regional portals, and businesses of all sizes. If your audience needs to find out what's happening locally, Townbase is built for you.

How is Townbase different from Eventbrite or Facebook Events?

Eventbrite and Facebook Events are tools for individual event organisers. Townbase is infrastructure for the organisations that aggregate, curate and publish local content at scale — cities, media houses, and platforms. We don't sell tickets and we don't compete with your existing ticketing provider. We make your entire local event ecosystem discoverable in one place, under your brand.

Can I use just the API, or do I have to take the full platform?

You can use just the API. Or just a widget. Or just a branded guide. Townbase is modular by design — you take what fits your use case and can add more as your needs grow.

Is Townbase GDPR-compliant and EU-hosted?

Yes. Townbase is built and operated in Northern Europe, data is stored within the EU, and the platform is designed to be GDPR-compliant by default. For public sector and municipal customers, this is a core requirement — not an afterthought.

How quickly can we get started?

A branded event guide can be live in approximately two days. Widget integrations can be done in under an hour. API access is available immediately upon request. There are no lengthy procurement cycles or heavy implementation projects.

Give your destination one trusted and truly local digital home

Launch a modern city guide, a local guide that brings places, stays, food, events, and news into one branded site visitors and locals actually use daily.

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Trusted by cities, councils, tourism boards, media groups and local communities across Europe and beyond.

A single resource visitors and locals rely on

Show and market your local area as a destination in one place so people quickly see what to do, where to stay, and what is happening right now.

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Bring your city story together

Run a white label guide with places, events, news and blog posts in one site under your brand, so visitors and residents get a clear picture of your destination.

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Help people find you in search

Use the SEO friendly guide structure so attractions, hotels, restaurants, and events show up in search results when people plan their trip or night out.

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Keep content fresh without much manual input

Use simple admin tools to add and update listings, events, and alerts yourself, so your guide always feels current and partners can reuse trusted information and let us integrate to partner channels for you to re-use what is already out there.

Present your destination in a trusted central guide

Six key ways Townbase VisitGuides helps Cities and DMOs run a modern destination guide that visitors actually use.

Run a branded city guide

Launch a white label guide on your own domain with your logo, colors, and visual style.

Central place directory

Keep attractions, hotels, restaurants, cafés, and points of interest in one up to date, searchable directory.

Live events and alerts

Publish concerts, festivals, community events, news articles, and city alerts in the same trusted guide.

Powerful search and filters

Help visitors and locals quickly find what to see, where to stay, and where to eat right now.

Share content with partners

Use embeddable widgets and REST APIs so media, hotels, and apps can reuse your guide content.

Control branding and SEO

Own your digital presence and structure content so your official guide shows up in search results and in Agentic AI tools

Testimonials

"townbase EventGuide gives our area's event offering plenty of visibility. Both event organisers and event attendees are very satisfied with the new event calendar. Customer service people are expert and fast."
Anonymous
City Government Client

I have recommended you to all our neigbouring towns!
Anonymous
City Government Client

Before we found townbase, organising and promoting our local events was a major headache. We struggled to reach our audience and coordinate schedules effectively. Now, with townbase, we can easily manage events and see increased attendance, making our community's offering come alive!
Outi Ruso
Event Director
City of Hyvinkää

Frequently Asked Questions

What is Townbase VisitGuide in simple terms?

Townbase VisitGuide is your city’s official online guide. It puts places, events, stays, food, and local news into one clear website under your own brand, so visitors and locals know where to look first.

Who is Townbase VisitGuide for?

If you run a city tourism team, DMO, regional tourism board, or a municipal communication unit that owns the “Visit [City]” site, Townbase VisitGuide is for you. You get a modern guide without starting a big custom web project.

How is this better than our current tourism website or printed guide?

Your visitors no longer have to jump between random sites, old PDFs, and printed maps. With Townbase, they find what to see, where to stay, where to eat, and what’s on right now in one trusted place that you control.

Do we keep our own branding and domain?

Yes. The guide runs on your domain with your logo, colors, and visuals. People see it as your official city or region guide, not a third party service.

How hard is it to keep the guide up to date?

You log in, add or edit places, events, and articles, then hit publish. You don’t need a developer or an agency for everyday updates, so your information stays current. In addition we integrate to many popular platforms so your content is always up-to-date without any manual input.

Can partners and local media reuse our content?

Yes. You can share event feeds and guides with local media, hotels, and other partners through widgets, types of feeds like RSS and JSON, and via our API Platform, so your city info appears on their sites and apps as well. You can offer one central data hub for the whole region - and, update content only once!

Make your destination guide the default

Give visitors a trusted place for attractions, stays, food, and events. Take back control of your city brand and stop losing travelers to scattered, outdated information.

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