Ruby Roy

Guide at a Glance

• Company

  Ruby Licensed Montreal Local Expert & Food Guide

• Locations

  Montreal, Quebec, Canada

• Activities

  Food Tour, Lifestyle, Private Tour, Sightseeing, Walking Tour

• Guiding Experience

  28 years

• Languages

  Arabic, Bengali, English, French, Greek, Hindi, Italian, Spanish

• Favorite Trip

  Local Montreal Food Lovers Tour and Neighbourhood Disovery. This tour is the most local, authentical local Montreal experience. A full day tour that takes through Old Montreal and some of my hidden secret stops. We discover several neighbourhoods while we walk and use public transportation. Visitors will really get a true authentic experience in the day and life of Montreal. You will meet other Montrealers, and get a chance to chat with them, taste the iconic and some very special local products. Learn about language, education, life style and another subject you are interested in. This tour is customised, and private . The stops and details are given out once tour is booked, to prevent over tourism so that your personal experience is truely special and unique. Everything is included in this tour. Another favourite tour is my evening walking tour of Old Montreal great before dinner or drinks.

Guide Bio

Life is about enjoying it to the fullest while enjoying experiences. I am a passionate, creative, flexible native English speaking local Montreal expert and guide. A licensed Montreal guide since 1992. I enjoy offering extraordinary local Montreal experiences tailored to each guest. My Montreal tours are more unique local experiences filled with anecdotes, stories & humour. I specialize in food /culinary, neighbourhood tours, photography, fashion & design tours art. , Leonard Cohen, Cultural Heritage tours, music, multicultural, traditions, politics, architecture, the Montreal metro, the underground city and history. I offer helicopter tours( with a pilot), walking, driving, bike tours, using public transportation or with a driver and vehicle, sprinters as well as motorcoach tours of Montreal, Ottawa, the outlining areas.

Past guests include public figures and personalities, diplomats, delegations, business corporate travelers, politicians, journalists, film crews, conference & event planners, cruise ship guests, wedding parties, specialized groups, pilgrimages, couples, friends trips, families and solo travallers .

My diverse background in the tourism and travel industry includes: Concierge at the Fairmont Queen Elizabeth hotel, working at the airports, destination management companies, incentive houses as a corporate travel director with companies like American Express, international tour operators that include Globus, as a tour manager. I am also a public speaker and workshop presenter. I have worked for Tourism Montreal’s as media relations manager as well as in the business, convention and communication departments since 1993. This includes working with the sales team to bring international conferences to Montreal. I have also worked for Tourism Québec in various capacities that include developing programs for emerging markets, consultant, leading familiarization tours, working with film crews and organizing events. I continue to work as a private concierge and offer training, evaluation in the tourism industry both in Montreal & abroad. I am a photographer, I sing, am a dance teacher and still perform in front of live audiences.

I am an avid traveller, having visited 141 countries and lived for periods of 3 to 6 months in 25 different places worldwide that include Egypt, India, the Arabian Gulf, Italy, London, Spain, etc. I travel for work, study languages, dance, music, photography, art and culinary art. I collect art & antique tribal jewelry. During my travels, I learn to cook unusual dishes from locals, which I create at home. On my journeys, I give workshops, training and volunteer. The type of travel, my international network, my experiences and the languages I can communicate in, have opened doors but have also helped me in offering truly personalized private tours and experiences in Montreal.

I am President Emeritus of both the World Federation of Tourist Guide Association The international organization representing tourist guides worldwide and I have been involved since 1993. My international involvement with colleagues who are local experts & private guides worldwide has taught me to observe, improve, learn and share experiences to continue to be a better guide but also to share knowledge with others.
I have been featured in media including tv and radio productions from around the world that I have been featured in. They include National Geographic Traveller, Australian TV, the Amazing Race, Boston Globe, the Guardian, the Evening Standard, BBC, Ruda Maxa, Ria Italia, Lonely Planet, Celebrity Radio UK, Edible Road Trip, and more