About Us

📄LouvreGuide.com is an independent Louvre travel guide by Intercoper. Learn who curates our tours, how we evaluate them, and why you can trust us.

🏛️ Independent Guide & Expert Curation (Not the Official Site)

LouvretourGuide.com is an independent travel guide. We are not affiliated with the Musée du Louvre, the Réunion des Musées Nationaux, or any French government body. Our role is to research, compare, and curate the best Louvre tour options and visitor guides so you can plan and book with confidence.

Who We Are

LouvretourGuide.com is a project by Intercoper, a digital studio based in Buenos Aires, Argentina, operating since 2006. We build niche travel platforms focused on specific landmarks and museums, combining editorial research with structured data and affiliate partnerships.

The Louvre is the most visited museum in the world — over 8 million visitors per year — and also one of the most overwhelming to plan for. Three wings, four levels, 35,000 works, mandatory timed-entry tickets, and a building that was a royal palace before it was a museum. We built this site because the gap between "I want to visit the Louvre" and "I know exactly how to do it well" is enormous, and most existing resources either sell you something without context or give you information without curation.

Our approach is the same one we use across all Intercoper travel projects: research the destination thoroughly, curate only the tours and tickets that meet our editorial standards, and publish practical guides that solve real visitor problems — from navigation and timing to accessibility and what to do when tickets sell out.

Mario Dalo | Founder & Travel Curator

Mario is a digital entrepreneur who has spent nearly 20 years building web projects across multiple industries. His focus on European landmark tourism led to the creation of a portfolio of curated travel sites covering some of the continent's most visited destinations, including the Colosseum, Pompeii, the Louvre, and Milan's Last Supper.

Mario drives the editorial vision across all Intercoper travel projects: which tours make the cut, what standards they must meet, and how information is structured to genuinely help the visitor rather than just generate clicks.

Professional background: Founder of Intercoper since 2006 — author profile
Personal site: MarioDalo.com
LinkedIn: linkedin.com/in/mario-dalo

"The Louvre can be the highlight of a Paris trip or its most frustrating moment. The difference is almost always information, not money. That's what this site exists to provide." — Mario Dalo

Intercoper Curator Team

The editorial and research team behind LouvretourGuide.com handles tour verification, content updates, pricing checks, and the practical visitor guides published on the site. Every article is researched against official Louvre sources, cross-referenced with real traveler experiences, and updated regularly to reflect current prices, policies, and schedules.

What This Site Does

LouvretourGuide.com aggregates and curates Louvre tours and tickets from licensed operators available through platforms like GetYourGuide and Viator. We do not sell tours directly. When you book through our links, the transaction is processed entirely by the tour platform, and we earn a small affiliate commission at no extra cost to you.

The site currently covers:

Louvre tours organized by type — small-group highlights, semi-private, private, family, night, and combo tours
Editorial guides covering tickets, navigation, timing, masterpieces, mistakes to avoid, accessibility, family visits, and alternatives when tickets sell out

We add new tours and update existing guides on a rolling basis as the Louvre's policies, prices, and visitor experience evolve.

How We Evaluate Tours

Every tour listed on this site is selected based on a consistent set of criteria. We do not accept paid placements, and operators cannot buy a position on our recommendation lists.

Verified ratings from real travelers on GetYourGuide and Viator — minimum threshold of quality before a tour is considered.
Operator track record — licensing, cancellation policies, customer support responsiveness, and consistency of reviews over time.
Value for money — what you actually get for the price, not just the headline. We flag tours where the ticket is not included or where the listed price is misleading.
Practical inclusions — skip-the-line access, group size caps, headsets, which entrance is used, and whether special access or shortcuts are part of the experience.
Editorial review — our own assessment based on tour descriptions, review patterns, operator responses to negative feedback, and where possible, direct or indirect testing of the experience.

Tour rankings on our hub and recommendation pages are based on a combination of verified ratings, review volume, value assessment, and editorial judgment. This process is the same across all Intercoper travel projects.

How We Make Money

We earn affiliate commissions when you book a tour or ticket through our links to GetYourGuide or Viator. This is clearly disclosed and does not affect the price you pay. We are not a travel agency and do not handle bookings, payments, cancellations, or customer service — those are managed entirely by the tour platforms.

Our editorial guides — articles on navigation, timing, tickets, masterpieces, and more — are not monetized through affiliate links in the text. They exist to help you plan a better visit. If a guide recommends booking a guided tour as a solution to a specific problem, it is because that is genuinely the best available option, not because we earn more from it.

Why Trust This Site

Intercoper has operated since 2006 — nearly 20 years of digital projects across multiple industries.
Transparent affiliate model — we explain exactly how we earn, and it costs you nothing extra.
No fake reviews — all ratings referenced on this site come from verified purchases on GetYourGuide and Viator.
No paid placements — tour rankings are editorial, not for sale.
Regularly updated content — editorial guides are reviewed and updated to reflect current Louvre prices, policies, opening hours, and visitor rules.
Consistent standards across projects — the same evaluation framework powers ColosseumRoman.com, PompeiiTourGuides.com, MilanLastSupper.com, and LouvretourGuide.com.