This is a great start. The user profiles are a nice touch and it definitely solves the problem.

I can see how a developer would see this as a perfect way to organize tours, but I don't think is how non-developers would organize them. For example, I think of a guide to a city as one big collection of places, organized into categories, rather than seperate lists of places. I think a map on the guides page with all of the places from all of this lists would be very useful. I also feel that lists should have an order to them, so someone could visit one after another, like a tour of the city. The site could use some general polish as well. I think this would be a good site to be responsive, as it would be useful on a phone.

Other than that, I think its great. The analytics integration (keeping track of views) is pretty cool. Is that using third party analytics or did you create your own?