DiscoverAmerica.com was launched by the U.S. Travel Association to help Americans learn about domestic travel destinations and activities.
The site includes an interactive map that gives mileage from city to city, and an activity finder that lists more than 3,000 experiences, attractions and events, including museums, gardens, ski slopes, festivals and parks. The site also offers links to tourism information for all 50 states, as well as for more than 100 cities and other destinations, and includes content from the National Park Service, the National Scenic Byways program and useful Web sites like GoogleMaps and Weather.com.
The site offers photo galleries organized by location, with pictures of everything from a historic district in New Braunfels, Texas to wild horses in North Carolina's Currituck Outer Banks, to the Volcanic Legacy Scenic Byway in the Shasta Cascade region of California, to Mystic Seaport in Connecticut. Visitors can also upload their own images and comments about places they've been by clicking on the "Stories" link at DiscoverAmerica.com.
"DiscoverAmerica.com is the latest in a series of online media outlets that feature content related to Brunswick and The Golden Isles of Georgia," explains Bill Tipton, executive director of the Brunswick-Golden Isles Convention and Visitors Bureau. "In addition to our official website, ComeCoastAwhile.com, we are distributing online information via a .mobi site, a blog and on several social networking sites including Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn and Squidoo.
"It's all part of an aggressive effort to promote Brunswick and The Golden Isles of Georgia as a preferred destination for families, groups, meetings, reunions, weddings and other facets of tourism and travel. It's a relatively low-cost way to promote our area, with the potential to connect with millions of prospective visitors."
U.S. Travel is a private agency authorized by the U.S. Commerce Department to develop and market an official travel planning web site targeting the top five international markets that send visitors to the U.S. — Canada, Mexico, the United Kingdom, Japan and Germany. Launching DiscoverAmerica.com for domestic travelers was an outgrowth of U.S. Travel's outreach to international visitors.
Brunswick & The Golden Isles of Georgia – St. Simons Island, Sea Island, Little St. Simons Island, Jekyll Island – are located on the Georgia coast just minutes from I-95 at Exits 29, 36, 38 and 42. Visitor information, including discounts and other special offers by area hotels, attractions and restaurants, can be found online at ComeCoastAwhile.com. For information “on the go,” text BGIGA to 95495 or go to ComeCoastAwhile.mobi on your web-enabled phone or PDA.
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