Local economies are built by the people who show up every day — vendors, makers, service providers, restaurants, retailers, and independent businesses that keep communities alive. Yet despite their importance, many of these vendors struggle to get consistent visibility, meaningful support, and fair access to customers in a system that often favors scale over substance.

The Support Local Tour was created to change that.

Not as a campaign.
Not as a one-time promotion.
But as a sustained effort to show up for local vendors and businesses, strengthen local economies, and make supporting local easier, more visible, and more impactful.

What the Support Local Tour Is

The Support Local Tour is a multi-city initiative focused on supporting independent vendors and local businesses through direct engagement, visibility, and community participation. At every stop, the goal is simple: help local vendors get seen, supported, and chosen by the people around them.

The tour highlights a wide range of local commerce — from food vendors and storefront businesses to service providers and independent operators — all of whom contribute to the economic and cultural fabric of their communities.

Rather than relying on surface-level promotion, the tour is built around participation. Vendors are featured for what they actually sell or provide, communities are encouraged to support local intentionally, and supporters are recognized for helping make it all possible.

Each stop is designed to create value that flows in all directions — for vendors, for communities, and for the local economy as a whole.

Why Supporting Vendors and Local Businesses Matters

When people support local vendors and businesses, the impact goes far beyond a single transaction.

Local vendors and businesses:

• Keep money circulating within the community
• Create local jobs and opportunities
• Preserve the character and identity of neighborhoods
• Build resilient, people-powered economies

When vendors struggle, communities feel it. Dollars leave town, local options disappear, and independent operators are pushed out by systems that don’t prioritize local ownership.

The Support Local Tour exists to reinforce a simple truth: where people choose to spend their money matters — and collective local support can create lasting economic impact.

How the Tour Creates Impact

Every stop on the Support Local Tour focuses on three core outcomes:

Direct Engagement
Vendors and businesses are engaged directly, their stories are shared, and what they offer is highlighted in a way that feels authentic and relevant.

Business and Vendor Growth
Instead of generic exposure, vendors receive targeted visibility for their products, menus, or services, along with long-term discoverability through a commission-free local directory.

Economic Strength
Communities benefit from increased local spending, stronger connections between residents and vendors, and a renewed focus on keeping money circulating locally.

This approach ensures the tour isn’t just moving through cities — it’s leaving behind momentum.

A Community-Funded Effort

The Support Local Tour is not investor-funded.
It’s powered by communities, vendors, businesses, and organizations that believe in supporting local.

Support comes in many forms:

• Financial contributions
• Lodging, meals, or transportation support
• In-kind services or resources
• Media, referrals, and amplification

Every contribution helps move the tour forward and directly supports the work being done in each community.

Supporters aren’t kept in the background — they’re recognized and promoted as part of a community-driven effort to strengthen local economies.

What Supporters Receive

Supporting the Support Local Tour isn’t passive sponsorship. It’s visible participation.

Contributors and partners are recognized across the tour, the Kinago platform, and supporting media channels. Contributions are returned as Kinago advertising credit equal to the amount contributed, ensuring supporters receive tangible value alongside meaningful impact.

When someone supports the tour, they’re not just helping it happen — they’re becoming part of the local economic story.

Where the Tour Begins

Round 1 of the Support Local Tour begins in New York, Florida, and Texas — three diverse regions where vendors and independent businesses play a critical role in local economies.

These initial stops focus on proving what real engagement and intentional local support can do when vendors, communities, and supporters align around a shared goal: strengthening local economies.

From there, the tour will continue to grow, guided by community interest and participation.

How You Can Get Involved

There are many ways to be part of the Support Local Tour:

• Support the tour financially or through in-kind contributions
• Partner as a vendor, business, or organization
• Help bring the tour to your city
• Share the journey and amplify local vendors

Whether you contribute resources, visibility, or support, your involvement helps turn local intention into real economic impact.

The Bigger Picture

The Support Local Tour isn’t about travel.
It’s about visibility, participation, and economic circulation.

It’s about making sure vendors and local businesses are seen, supported, and chosen — and showing what’s possible when communities invest in the people who power their local economy.

And this is just the beginning.

Powered by Kinago

The Support Local Tour is powered by Kinago, a commission-free platform built to help local vendors and businesses get discovered and supported without sacrificing their margins.

Kinago provides the infrastructure that allows the tour’s impact to last beyond each stop. Vendors remain discoverable, customers know where to support local, and communities retain a long-term resource for local commerce.

Instead of temporary attention, the tour creates lasting visibility.