First Time Here - How To Use

Welcome to the Georgia Tourist Guide, an online travel resource organized with you in mind!  The guide is designed to provide you with information about Georgia destinations and to help you organize and utilize your travel ideas. This article provides tips for using the guide, and we think you’ll discover it is quite easy to navigate the site.

How To Use The Search Facility

To get started, examine the left side of the screen.  Simply select a Region and notice that it has been highlighted a red/orange. If that Region has Areas then they will be listed in orange with a checkmark. This means that the entire Region is selected.
Narrow Your Area Search
If you wish to narrow your search to a specific Area(s) within the Region, simply click the Areas you do NOT wish to include in your search and the checkmarks are removed. Only the Area(s) with a checkmark are included in the search.     
Remember To Select The Type Of Service
Now you can identify the type of service information you need in the box on the left.  Simply click the Service (“Things to Do”, “Places to Eat”, etc.) for which you want information; and it will turn red/orange. Notice that the categories for that Service are displayed with a checkmark.
Narrow Your Service Search
Again if you wish to narrow your selection to a specific category(s), then click and remove the checkmarks that you do NOT wish to include in your search. When your search criteria have been selected, click the “Search” button.  
Your Search Results
The guide will then present information for the Region/Area which is highlighted and checkmarked and for the specific Service which is highlighted and checkmarked.  For example, if you are interested in Bed & Breakfasts in Savannah, select the “Georgia Coast Region” and have a checkmark only by the “Savannah Area”; and then select the “Places to Stay” option and remove all checkmarks except by "Bed and Breakfasts".  The Tourist Guide will return only the Bed & Breakfast locations in the Savannah Area.

Quick Links

What You Can Do

·          The left-hand tab, General Info, is where you will find articles about the area you are researching.

·          The middle tab will either be labeled Things to Do, Places to Stay, Places to Eat or Getting Around, depending on the service you selected, and will offer interesting ideas and/or service providers and their offerings.

·          The right-hand tab, Special Offers, will present the current “deals” those service providers are sharing with the guide’s audience.

 The Georgia Tourist Guide offers several features designed to make your travel research efficient and effective.  As you investigate the guide, be sure to investigate:

·          My Travel Ideas - an electronic folder where you can store interesting or useful information that you “flag” as you look through the guide.  You can also edit and/or save your list of “flagged” items, email it to yourself or another person or apply Google’s mapping capabilities to it.  These features are made available by clicking the “Save to My Account” button below the “Travel Ideas” list.

·          Map This – this feature uses Google’s mapping function to quickly geographically pinpoint the guide’s accommodation, dining and activities listings – either individually or as a group.  If there are four restaurants for the area you asked for “Search”, you can “Map This” and all four will be shown on the map.  Within an individual advertisement display you can map the location of that business.  When you set up an account and save several flagged items, you can “Map This” and get all the items displayed on a map.

·          Articles – these provide general information about travel within the state.  For a list of all articles, click on the Site Map at the bottom of the screen.

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