tourist-guides.net
Promoting the Blue Badge on the Internet
Information for Blue Badge Guides
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Introduction
Purpose of this site
Becoming part of it
Web creation and hosting
Domain Registration and Hosting
Contact information

"Soon every business will be an e-business or out of business"

That intimidating advertising slogan does not necessarily apply to Blue Badge guides, because of the way we normally get our work - personal recommendation, tour operators etc., but it does indicate the growing influence of the Internet in commerce, information and the shaping of opinion.

The World Wide Web gives you access to the whole world - global advertising at very little cost - but it brings with it a cut-price culture and a lack of scrutiny. "Milosovic & Co. of St. James' - caterers at Royal events". Do they run restaurants at Ascot or hot dog stands at the changing of the guard?
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tourist-guides.net is an independent site which has the following aims:-
to promote the Blue Badge on the Internet and to help counter the growing number of sites that offer guiding services by people who have no guiding qualification.
to be a source of information on guiding matters, with links to relevant sites.
to advertise the services of individual Blue Badge Guides with links to their sites.
to be a vehicle for the creation and hosting of web sites for Blue Badge guides.

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You Can Become Part of It
You are invited to submit your URL together with certain information and key words. A summary will appear on the list of guides with a link to your site and your details will be included in the search facility.

If you do not have your own web site tourist-guides.net can make one for you

If you do have a web site click here

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Web Site Creation and Hosting
Tourist-guides.net offers an affordable web site creation and hosting service exclusively for Blue Badge Guides.

1. Pre-formatted page for just £50.
This includes:-
A single, pre-formatted page that is clear and professional looking.
Well laid out with all the information that clients need to know.
Relevant images and up to two photographs.
Meta Tags
Personal URL (www.tourist-guides.net/yourname).
Inclusion in the tourist-guides.net list of guides and search engine.
One year's hosting.

For an explanation of the layout click here for the standard page and here for the new style page
Have a look at ones I made earlier

2. Your own design and specification.
This service starts at just £100 for the first page and includes:
Layout and text to your own design
Relevant images and up to two photographs
Meta tags.
Personal URL (www.tourist-guides.net/yourname).
Inclusion in the tourist-guides.net list of guides and search engine.
One year's hosting.

Additional services may include:
Search engine registration
Traffic monitoring
Addition images
Animated images
Mouse-overs
Domain registration
To plan your pre-formatted web site on-line click here
To download a form for your pre-formatted web site click here

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Domain Registration and Hosting
tourist-guides.net is now able to offer domain registration and hosting for £99 (+VAT) per year
Domain Name Registration and hosting (.co.uk.) £10 Supplement for .com or .org
Fast and reliable servers
5 megabytes of web space
E-mail address
Real human beings at the other end of a telephone

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Contact information
Peter Jamieson
info@tourist-guides.net
Fax: +44(0)020-8674 9613
Phone +44(0)20 8671 6750

tourist-guides.net is evolving so page layout may vary.