Creating a Tour

Updated April 16th, 2024
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Add a new tour

  1. In the left-hand sidebar, click on Tours.

  2. On the top-right, click the blue Create Entry button. A dropdown menu appears.

  3. Click Create Tour. The tour creation page appears.

We recommend that each gallery is a separate tour, to not overwhelm visitors.

Tour Details

Title
This is the title of your tour, i.e. Downtown Walking Tour

Tour Type
There are two types of tours you can create: mobile guides and GPS-enabled tours.

  • Mobile Guide: Each tour stop is a physical place within one gallery or building, that a visitor navigates to by looking for a keypad number or scanning a QR code.

  • GPS-enabled: Each tour stop is a physical place outside of a gallery or building, that a visitor navigates to with the maps app on their phone.

If you choose GPS-enabled, additional options appear. These include:

  • Default Transit Method: This sets the default transit method (walking, biking, driving, or public transit) for calculating directions, and calculating the time it will take to reach the next stop. Visitors can change the transit method in their maps app.

  • Total Distance: How many miles or kilometers is the tour?

  • Time to Complete: How many hours does the tour take to complete?

Wayfinding

Choose how visitors access tour stops: by scanning a QR code, entering a keypad number, or simply proceeding from one stop to the next.

Featured Image

The featured image displays at the top of the tour's Start Page, and in the tour listing displayed on the Home Page.

Browse for an existing image file in Media, or upload a new image.

Tour Description

The tour description is a short one to two sentence description of what the tour is about.

Add Sponsors

You can add up to 5 corporate or community sponsors to each tour.

  1. Click the + button to add a sponsor.

  2. Enter the sponsor's name, website, and add their logo.

  3. To hide a sponsor, click the green toggle at the top right.

Acknowledgements

Acknowledge staff, volunteers, and others that contributed to the tour with a rich-text field.
If you have a land acknowledgement statement, you can add that in your Site Settings, and it will appear at the end of the acknowledgements section for each tour.

Route Map

In the Route Map tab, you can hide or show the route map, add sponsors, and choose a map marker color for your sponsors.

Save the Tour

At the top right of the page is a blue Save & Publish button. Click it to save the tour. Alternatively, you can use the keyboard shortcut to save: Ctrl + S (Win) or CMD + S (Mac).

Next, we'll create a tour stop.