SHADES TOURS organizes alternative guided walking tours – in English and German - in Vienna.

Far away from the main tourism sights, SHADES TOURS offers another perspective on the city and highlights the unseen socio-political issues and its social system around different polarizing topics (such as poverty / homelessness and refugees / asylum seekers). And whom – if not people from marginalized groups themselves – could inform better?

SHADES TOURS is therefore Austria’s unique business which employs homeless people or refugees to become alternative tour guides and enhance their way into society. On the other hand, participants such as children, students, adults, companies and tourists gain insightful knowledge, which makes them strive for a change within society.