Resort Magazine
The ‘Resort‘series of free, high quality tourist guides began back in 1992 with the publishing of a guide for the Weymouth area. Over the past nineteen years Resort has gone from strength to strength, providing quality of the highest standards. Not just print quality but also content and distribution. No one thing has made Resort successful – it’s the marketplace that has decided we have the mix right.
Just one advertisement will place your business in one of the most popular high-volume visitor guides, which will cover the entire holiday season. Our experienced sales team will take your booking and liaise with you over copy to make things really simple.
Increase Your Profile
The yellow display boxes used to present Resort to our readership complement the high quality of the guide and really catch the eye. We guarantee distribution from Spring right through to September.
Free Design
Our in-house studio will create an advertisement tailored to your business and provide you with a proof prior to publication completely free of charge.
Free Website Entry
As a Resort 2013 advertiser, you will receive a FREE entry on one of our websites promoting your area. You will also be eligible for discounts on account upgrades. Please ask for further information.
Click on the Resort covers below to see the online flip book…
Over the years we expanded to cover the whole of Dorset, and three further editions, covering the counties of Cornwall, Southern Devon and South Hants, were added to the portfolio. Published annually and distributed widely to visitors from Easter through to September ‘Resort’ has become one of the most highly regarded publications of its type, reaching an estimated audience of visitors and locals in excess of 3 million people each year via 775,000 copies, which are distributed through nearly 4,000 tourist venues in the South West.
Each Resort edition is distributed in your area to many Tourist Information Centres, Holiday Parks, Hotels, Guest Houses, Visitor Attractions, Pubs, Restaurants etc.
The eye-catching yellow dispensers are regularly topped up, ensuring continued exposure for your business.
The fact that Resort is seen everywhere speaks for itself!
In 2011 each edition is also published in digital format as a flip book and as a Reader App on the iPhone, iPad and iPod Touch, meaning that advertisers can reach this new and exciting market at no extra charge.
Test it out for yourself and download the Resort app for free, just click on the icons below:
• Tap once to show contents
• Tap once on telephone/web/email links
• Drag left or right to change pages
• Pinch to zoom in and out and double tap to reset zoom
• Rotate for double page view
“We promote day trips to Jersey and Guernsey in a variety of tourist publications across Dorset and Hampshire, and to monitor performance we always include a money off voucher. For the last two years, Resort magazine has brought us the most customers by far! I think this is down to the wide network and blanket distribution of the magazine across pubs, restaurants, hotels and visitor attractions throughout the area.”
Justin Amey, Marketing Manager,
Condor Ferries.
“The Resort magazine is one of the top printed media we use for our promotions. In 2009 our voucher brought in 3,000 visitors and we are extremely pleased with the results. We will continue to advertise within the magazine.”
Emma Vagg, Marketing Co-ordinator,
Weymouth Sea Life Park.
“Resort Magazine provides an informative overview of what makes Cornwall such a fantastic county to visit. The volume and quality of distribution enables our customers and visitors alike to sample the delights the county has to offer.”
Damian Sargent, BDM, Aspects Holidays, Cornwall.
PREPARING ARTWORK
Software: The preferred format is PDF, but artwork can also be supplied in InDesign, Photoshop, Illustrator, EPS or TIFF formats.
General: Please ensure your artwork is supplied at a minimum of 300dpi.
Full page ads which bleed should have a minimum of 3mm bleed added outside of the trim page size.
Please supply a proof.
SUPPLYING ON DISK
Hardware: Document files can be supplied on CD or DVD.
Address: Resort Marketing Ltd,
St Nicholas House,
3 St Nicholas Street,
Weymouth,
Dorset DT4 8AD.
SUPPLYING BY EMAIL
Address: design@resortmarketing.co.uk
General: Please try to keep the attachment size down to a minimum, anything over 15mb should be sent on disk (see above).
Be sure to include reference to the advertiser name and publication in the email.
