How to Create and Make a Travel Brochure
Encourage visitors to head out your way and make your town or city a stop on their road trip by designing a travel brochure. Brochures are an ideal way to promote an area, as they're easily slipped into a standard #10 envelope or pocket and offer just enough "real estate" to provide a great deal of information and images about a location. Whether the locality is about to host a special event or just wants to drum up more tourism, make a travel brochure and get ready to roll out the red carpet.
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Visit the website of the travel destination's chamber of commerce to gather information on tourist hot spots, accommodations, seasonal events, shopping and attractions in the area. The Greater Raleigh Chamber of Commerce's website, for example, offers an event calendar, list of local businesses and collection of media information.
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Download pictures of the travel location from chamber of commerce websites or free photography sites. Take care not to use licensed photography without permission. State chamber of commerce or Secretary of State offices may also have images to use fee-free such as monument photographs and old maps.
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Open a desktop publishing program such as Microsoft Publisher or Adobe InDesign. Select the program's collection of brochure templates and double-click a template to open it in the program. Scroll through the two pages of the brochure to get a feel for the placeholder design and layout.
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Highlight and type over the headline on the cover of the brochure, adding one related to the destination such as "Welcome to Spadertown!" Highlight and type over the other headlines in the brochure, adding topics such as "Attractions," "Climate," "History," "Culture" and "Events."
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Highlight and type over the text boxes below the headlines, adding information gathered from the chamber of commerce or local area websites.
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Press and hold down the "Ctrl" key on the keyboard. Click once on any placeholder graphics included on the brochure template. Press the "Delete" key on the keyboard to remove them from the brochure.
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Add travel photos by clicking the "Insert" tab or menu and selecting "Picture." Browse to a monument, street or landscape photo and double-click the file name. Drag the photo into place on the brochure and repeat to replace/add more photos.
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Click into the contact information panel on the brochure and type over the text boxes with information for travelers, such as the address of the welcome plaza, website or travel agent phone number. Add a chamber of commerce or travel agent logo by clicking the "Insert" tab or menu, selecting "Picture, browsing to the logo, double-clicking it and dragging it into place on the contact panel. To remove the contact panel boxes entirely, click once on a text box and press the "Delete" key.
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Click the "File" tab or menu and select "Save As." Type a name for the travel brochure and save it to the computer.
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