A guidebook offers attraction-specific information to visitors. It is a useful tool that anyone running an attraction should offer whether that attraction is a tour of a winery, an outdoor adventure park, or an art museum.

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1. Guidebooks are Souvenirs

Many visitors will collect guidebooks from the various places they have traveled. They cherish these by adding them to scrapbooks or keeping them in memory boxes.

Having a guidebook allows visitors to look back and remember their experiences. It might even encourage them to return to the attractions they loved and enjoy the experience again.

InstantPublishers’ variety of binding options can help you create high-quality guidebooks that can be enjoyed by your visitors for years to come and that are perfect for your attraction’s specific needs.

2. Guidebooks Supplement Signage

Too often visitors to attractions become overwhelmed by the enormity of what they are seeing. There is so much to read, hear, feel, and remember. This can make them miss signage that is placed around the attraction to relay stories, information, and historical facts.

A guidebook is a quick reference guide that visitors can look back on and get some of the information they might have missed from the signage or simply forgotten in the wealth of information presented. It may remind them which president rode on the displayed train car or what kind of grapes are used to make premium wine.

3. Guidebooks Offer Quick Access to Information

Your guidebook might include a map of the attraction, a list of attraction rules, and other local landmarks related to the attraction which visitors should experience. Guidebooks give visitors a comprehensive experience without increasing the number of employees who otherwise might be required as the source of such information.

4. Guidebooks Offer a Chance to Share History

A guidebook is a great place to include the attraction’s history. If the attraction is man-made its origin story can be included in the pages of the guidebook along with images of the creator. The guidebook can feature images from the attraction’s past and perhaps some hints about the future of the attraction.

5. Guidebooks Enhance Guests Experiences

Providing a guidebook to guests is that added touch that makes guests feel valued and enhances their experience at your attraction. Guests appreciate having information easily available at their fingertips as they peruse what you have to offer. Don’t forget to include your website and contact information so guests can visit your gift shop virtually after their visit is completed.

Guidebooks are a multifaceted tool that attraction owners can use to help their guests have the best possible experience.

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Christmas is approaching and with it the adventures in shopping that so many of us dread. It can feel like an impossible task to find a personal and unique gift for the people on your shopping list who seem to have everything. Once given, many gifts gather dust and take up space. However, a family history book will be a valued gift that will be cherished for years to come.

1. Personal and Unique

Genealogy is becoming more and more popular. Ancestry DNA tests are a huge business and many people are exploring their lineage and with that lineage their family history.

Nothing is more personal than a book that explains the origins of a family and reaches back into their ancestry to find roots that have affected the growth of the family for generations.

Every family is unique which means that a book covering their family history will, by necessity, be equally unique.

2. Timeless

A family history book isn’t something that will go out of style or become obsolete when a newer model comes along.

Pictures and stories about a family’s origins are timeless gifts that can be revisited again and again throughout a person’s life. This timeless gift can also be handed down through future generations to cherish as they learn about where they come from and who their family of origin was.

3. Organize and Preserve History

Many family photos are in boxes and albums. Often the people in the photos can’t be identified by anyone who is living after a generation and names written in ink on the backs of those photos may become illegible with time and handling.

Compiling photos, scrapbooks, and stories into a family history book creates an organized way for future generations to make sense of those images and stories. Instead of looking through an album with nameless people, the reader of a family history book can see pictures of their ancestors alongside information about their life. Journal entries from that family member can also be included.

4. Bring Family Together

As you prepare your family history book you will have the opportunity to network with other family members to gather information. Compiling a family history book encourages you to call up the aunts, uncles, and cousins you usually only see at reunions to get additional content for your book.

5. Connect With Your Heritage

Compiling a family history book gives you the opportunity to delve into your family’s past and, in doing so, connect with your own heritage. Perhaps you will learn that your grandmother painted as a hobby or that your family once had a prominent politician or historical figure in it.

The knowledge you gain as you compile your family history book will bring your heart closer to your family which is a large part of what Christmas is all about.

Printing a family history book has never been easier. InstantPublisher is here to help.

InstantPublisher offers a variety of services that make creating a family history book easy and affordable.

Ghostwriting services help you turn dates and compiled stories into readable content for your book.

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