Every spring, the Sedona Chamber of Commerce & Tourism Bureau releases and distributes three publications: The Sedona Hometown Guide, The Experience Sedona Guide and the Sedona Destination Event Planner. All three publications are printed on certified Sustainable Forestry Initiative paper.
The 2019-2020 Sedona Hometown Guide is the best resource for residents to live, work and play in our beautiful home. The HTG is used as a relocation guide and sent to new residents. All SCC&TB partners are featured in the HTG as well as local events, ideas to stay healthy and active, tax charts, weather, maps and much more. The Chamber prints 10,000 HTGs and distribute to local businesses at the Official Visitor Center in Uptown and through the Sedona Red Rock News.
The Experience Sedona Guide is a vibrant magazine produced to assist Sedona’s 3 million visitors. The ESG in-cludes information about art, culture, accommodations, dining, shopping, recreation, adventure, attractions, day trips from Sedona, history, plus listings of the Sedona Chamber of Commerce and Tourism Bureau’s tourism relat-ed partners. The 275,000 ESGs are distributed at the Visitor Center, as well as hundreds of locations across the state, including the Sky Harbor Airport in Phoenix. The ESG is also available at AAA offices nationally.
As an expansion to the Chamber’s wellness pillar and new to the ESG is a wellness glossary full of spiritual and metaphysical definitions. There is also wellness grid where the reader can easily identify which practitioner to see based on a myriad of defined services.
The ESG seeks to educate potential visitors about the best times to visit — summer and winter, midweek — and teaches visitors in market about the roundabouts, sustainability efforts, off the beaten path locations, leave no trace methods, walkability and respect for the land, residents, neighborhoods and local culture.
The ESG and the Destination Event Planner are used by the SCC&TB when the group is working with tour opera-tors, travel agents, meeting and event planners, travel writers or film professionals. The DEP aims to “blur the line between vacation and board meeting” by providing meeting services, accommodations, dining and much more. Copies printed annually number 2,500.
Anyone with questions about any of the three guides, who would like to pick some up for family and friends coming into town or utilize these free guides for a business is invited to come to the visitor center in Uptown Sedona, 331 Forest Road. To view the guides online via turnpage technology, visit sedonachamber.com/guide-books.
