How to Make Travel Brochures

Travel brochures to highlight a destination can give others insight into a place or area. Good travel brochures can entice others to visit your travel destination. Here are some steps to help you make a travel brochure.

Instructions

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Choose your focus. Is your brochure going to highlight a hotel, resort, shopping, the beach, the mountains, family vacations or luxury? Now is the time to decide on the focus of your brochure. Select between one and four main points to include in your brochure.

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Select photos for your brochure. Choose photos with vibrant colors and enticing images. Photos of a pool, the beach, people shopping and exercising are excellent selections. You may also want to include photos of a hotel, shops, restaurants and other attractions in your brochure.

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Write your text based on your photos. Use short phrases and bullets wherever possible. You can write three to four short paragraphs of three to five sentences each to describe destinations or accommodations. Use powerful verbs and adjectives in your descriptions. A thesaurus can help you pinpoint descriptive words. The text in your brochure will serve to give your readers a general overview of the destination or attraction.

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Add your content. Get a sheet of paper 8 by 11 inches turn it around to landscape orientation and fold it into thirds. You will need to have enough pictures and text to fill your brochure.

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You can cut and paste your content so that it fits into the columns that you created. You can adjust your text so that it fits into columns by moving the arrows along the rulers on the top of your page in Microsoft Word. When your text is in the desired column width, cut it out with scissors and paste it onto the page that you have folded. The copy or words describing your destination should appear on the inside of your brochure.

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Copy photos on a color copier and reduce them so that they fit into the columns for your brochure. Its a good idea to measure your columns first and simply reduce the photos so they fit.

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Arrange the text and the pictures onto your brochure and glue them onto your paper. The outside, front panel of your brochure should have the name of the destination and a colorful photo of it.

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Make color copies of your brochure. If you dont have a copier at home, you can take your brochure to a business center with color copiers.