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Tourist Information kiosks are not as ubiquitous in the United States as they are in Europe, but Visitor Information Centers do exist in Los Angeles if you know where to look for them. Their friendly multi-lingual staff can help you book hotels, tours, shows and attractions tickets or make dinner reservations. They can provide you with walking maps of the area around them and attraction brochures. They also often have discount shopping coupons available for nearby retailers. Unlike the better-staffed Visitor Centers, kiosks generally only provide maps, brochures, and directions and may not sell attraction and tour tickets.

In addition to these Visitor Centers, the information desk staff at shopping malls, and your hotel concierges can provide many of the same services. However, unlike your hotel concierge, the Visitor Information staff are not expecting a tip for selling you attraction tickets and making you reservations.

Los Angeles Visitors Information Center at Hollywood & Highland Location: On the 2nd Floor of the Hollywood & Highland shopping complex at 6801 Hollywood Blvd , #207, Hollywood, CA 90028 (moved inside from the previous location out front). It's now deep inside, to the left of the Dolby Theatre, next to the Starline Tours office. Hours: 9 am - 10 pm Monday through Saturday; 9 am - 7 pm Sundays Phone: (323) 467-6412 Parking: available for a nominal fee in the Hollywood and Highland parking structure or in metered spaces along the street. Website:   www.discoverlosangeles.com Tip: If you're parking at Hollywood & Highland Center to explore Hollywood, the Visitor Information Center can validate your parking so you only pay $2 for the first 2 hours. Note:  This Visitor Information Center has relocated 3 times within Hollywood & Highland, so if you don't find it at #207, check the directory for its new location.

Visitors Information Kiosk at Hollywood & Highland If you just need a quick map, there's a Visitor Information kiosk in the Babylon Courtyard at Hollywood & Highland Center . They do sell some attraction tickets, but only accept credit cards. However they don't validate parking, so for that you'll have to find suite 207 inside. Hours:  10 am - 10 pm Monday through Saturday; 10 am - 7 pm Sundays

Downtown Los Angeles Visitor Information Kiosk Location:  Union Station, 800 N. Alameda St, Los Angeles 90012 Hours: Weekdays 9 am - 5 pm Website: www.discoverlosangeles.com

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Beverly Hills Visitor Center Location: 9400 S. Santa Monica Blvd, #102, Beverly Hills, CA 90210 Phone: (310) 248-1015 Website:  lovebeverlyhills.com

Santa Monica

The Santa Monica Main Visitor Information Center Location: 2427 Main Street, Santa Monica, CA 90405 Phone: toll free (800) 544-5319 or (310) 393-7593 Hours: Mon-Fri 9 am - 5:30 pm, Sat-Sun 9 am - 5 pm Website:  www.santamonica.com Visitor Information Kiosk Location: Palisades Park at 1400 Ocean Avenue, Santa Monica, CA 90401. Summer Hours: 9 am -5 pm Fall Hours: 9 am - 4:30 pm

Visitor Information Cart Location:  In the middle of the 1300 block of the Third Street Promenade in Santa Monica between Santa Monica Blvd. and Arizona Ave. Hours:  Sun-Thu 11 am - 8:45 pm, Fri-Sat 11 am - 9:45 pm Pier Shop and Visitor Center Location: 200 Santa Monica Pier, Santa Monica, CA 90401. Hours:  Mon-Thu 11 am - 5 pm, Fri-Sun 11 am - 7 pm

Marina del Rey

Marina del Rey Visitors Center Location:  4701 Admiralty Way, Marina del Rey, CA 90292 Phone:  (310) 305-9545 Hours:  Mon-Fri 9 am - 5 pm, Sat-Sun 10 am - 4 pm Website:  www.visitmarinadelrey.com

Convention and Visitors Bureau  Location:  301 E. Ocean Blvd, Suite 1900, Inside the Long Beach World Trade Center at World Trade Center and Ocean. Phone:  (562) 436-3645 Website:   www.visitlongbeach.com

Transit & Visitor Information Center Located at the end of the Metro Blue Line at the bus transit center, this Visitor Center is a street-front window, but it has a public restroom, which comes in handy if you just took the train from LA. Location:  130 E 1st Street (at Pine Ave), Long Beach, CA 90802 Phone: (562) 436-7700 Hours:  Mon-Sun 11:30 am - 4:30 pm, restrooms open daily 5 am to 1:30 am.

Visitor Center at the Pike at Rainbow Harbor Located near the Aquarium of the Pacific at Rainbow Harbor. Location:  268 Aquarium Way, Long Beach, CA 90802 Phone:  (562) 628-8550 Hours:  Summer: Mon-Thu 11 am - 5 pm, Fri-Sun 11 am - 6 pm; Winter Sat-Sun 11 am - 5 pm 

Concierge Desk at the Long Beach Convention Center Location:  300 E Ocean Blvd, Long Beach, CA 90802 (Inside the Long Beach Convention Center) Hours:  Open 10 am - 6 pm during Convention Center events

Anaheim Visitor Center Location: 640 W. Katella Ave. Anaheim, CA 92802 Phone: (714) 239-1340 Website: www.visitanaheim.com

This information was accurate at the time of publication but may change at any time. If you are going out of your way to visit one of these visitor centers, please call to confirm their location and open hours.

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What Is the Role of a Tourism Information Center?

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A tourism information center is an essential entity in the tourism industry. It is a centralized location that serves as a guide for tourists looking for information about their travel destination. The role of a tourism information center is to provide visitors with comprehensive and up-to-date information about the local area and its attractions.

What Does a Tourism Information Center Offer?

A tourism information center offers a range of services to help visitors plan their trip. These services include:

• Maps and Guides: A tourism information center provides maps and guides to visitors, which they can use to explore the local area. These maps and guides include information about local attractions, restaurants, hotels, and other amenities.
• Accommodation Information: A tourism information center provides visitors with information about hotels, motels, bed and breakfasts, and other accommodation options in the area.
• Transport Information: A tourism information center provides visitors with information about transportation options in the area. This includes bus schedules, taxi services, car rentals, and other modes of transportation.
• Sightseeing Tours: Some tourism information centers organize sightseeing tours for visitors. These tours are led by knowledgeable guides who provide insights into local history, culture, and attractions.

The Importance of a Tourism Information Center

Tourism is an important industry that generates revenue for many destinations around the world. A well-functioning tourism industry requires a reliable source of accurate and up-to-date information for visitors. This is where a tourism information center plays a crucial role.

1. Enhances Visitor Experience

A tourism information center enhances the visitor experience by providing valuable information about local attractions, events, and amenities. This helps visitors make informed decisions about their travel plans, ensuring that they have a memorable and enjoyable trip.

2. Boosts Local Economy

A tourism information center also has a positive impact on the local economy. By providing visitors with information about local businesses and attractions, it helps to promote these businesses and attract more customers. This, in turn, generates revenue for the local economy.

3. Promotes Sustainable Tourism

Sustainable tourism is an important concept that aims to minimize the negative impact of tourism on the environment and local communities. A tourism information center can play a role in promoting sustainable tourism by providing visitors with information about environmentally-friendly activities and responsible travel practices.

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Tourist Information Centers (TIC) are the most important visitor service facility in a community. They are important because they frequently provide the initial contact with most tourists who visit a community, and because they have the opportunity and the responsibility for creating the first impressions a tourist will perceive. Therefore, it should be one of the first duties of the tourism organization to establish TICs in and near the community, provide them with complete information on the area, and staff them with well-trained personnel.

The Community TIC offers specific information about the local area, its attractions, events, facilities, and services. It also assists in gathering data about tourists, such as where they come from, how long they will stay, what brought them to the area, and other significant data that a community needs to assist in the development of its tourism plan.

As pointed out in a guide published important to the listener. The necessity of developing an understanding of who the tourists are, their problems, and motives was noted.

As pointed out in a guide published by the Texas Tourist Development Agency, most visitors or "passers-by" are strangers to the community and unaware of the variety of attractions offered. Therefore, the TIC must be able to provide c omp l e te information about the community. Types of information which should be available to tourists should be classified for easy reference, and could include most of the following major categories:

Accommodations (hotels, motels, campgrounds, hostels)

Auto repair garages

Attractions/amusements

Children's services churches

Cultural attractions (museums, galleries, lectures, musicals)

Complaint referrals

Community events

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Emergency information

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Foreign visitors and interpreters

Health services and hospitals

Historical sites, places, buildings

Local industry

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Parks and recreational places (tennis courts, swimming pools, golf courses, horseback riding stables, and other sports information)

Restaurants (showing type, price range, reservations needed etc.)

Shopping information

Sightseeing services

Special tour services

Twenty-four-hour services

Transportation services

Of course, the TIC may expand this list of categories, or use only those which represent a large portion of the questions that are most often asked by tourists.

The initial compilation of the information represents a major commitment of staff time for researching, organizing, and determining the form in which the information is to be presented to the tourist. Therefore, it is important that the information be inclusive, accurate, up to date, easy to understand, and attractively presented.

The TIC makes it easy for travelers to get reliable answers to their questions and provides an excellent opportunity to sell them on the area's attractions as well as gather information about them. By placing a facility of this type in a central, easily reached location, one stands a good chance of stopping many travelers who might otherwise just drive through the community.

The information center should be placed strategically along the major route through your community—or at the intersection of major routes. It should be conveniently located at ground level with plenty of free parking space available. In congested areas reserved parking areas adjacent to the center should be arranged. By all means, keep the building and grounds attractive. If possible, provide for well-landscaped grounds.

The center could be located in a store, hotel/motel, or the Chamber of Commerce office. However, it is preferable to have it in a building of its own. It is not necessary to have much space as long as the center is attractive, easily recognized, and large enough to provide display racks for brochures on local and area attractions.

One approach is to have a center with an unusual type building—a tepee, covered wagon, log cabin, grist mill, replica of historic building (The Alamo or Judge Roy Bean's saloon perhaps). The center should be unusual and attractive on the inside as well as the outside. It must draw attention to itself. A large sign should identify it. Posters, photographs, and historic artifacts are appropriately displayed inside. Welcoming signs on the major routes to town should give the location and hours of operation. It is important that your staff, volunteers, or paid employees, be well-informed and enthusiastic individuals who understand their purpose and have a knowledge of and pride in their community.

Visitor centers can double as a reservation bureau for your hotels and motels. Often the hotels and motels help finance such projects and their operation. Alternatively, a leading hotel or motel can be sought out to donate the necessary space to the community or at least provide rent at a minimum rate.

In sum, hospitality and tourist information facilities are important in promoting the attractions of the community. Additionally they serve the important purpose of providing a method for surveying the tourist population. These are the places where valuable information can be gathered through registrations, questionnaires, and interviews with little contamination of data from the non-tourist or the risk of alienating the visitors (in this latter case they have voluntarily stopped which is far different from being stopped or interrupted as would be required in some information gathering situations).

The number and quality of the information centers in your community should be assessed. Do you have an information center and is it adequately attracting people to stop? Is the exterior and interior attractive and is it strategically placed and identified so visitors can be enticed to stop without feeling they have to go out of their way?

Comparing registrations at lodges, various attractions, or restaurants with the registrations at tourist information facilities will give a good index of how many take advantage of such facilities. Various questionnaires may be used to assess tourism and can include questions about visitor center usage and usefulness.

An additional role and service that the visitor center can play is providing the visitor something to do and see. The economic rewards of delaying the visitor one extra day is well known. The Texas Tourism Development Agency in the United States suggests that the community should encourage visitors to use the community as a base of operations for seeing all of the attractions within easy driving distance.

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Mad for museums in Wales

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Epic ways to celebrate St David’s Day

Why we celebrate St David's Day on 1 March and some interesting ways to join in the festivities.

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Find your roots and trace your family tree

Discover sources of information and genealogy tours to help you trace your Welsh family history.

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Tourist Informational Center is in the middle of the park named in remembrance of A. Pushkin, located in the center of Tbilisi, near Freedom Square. Comfortable place to meet, especially if you’re not familiar with the city. Tourist Informational Center is a wooden construction where two young employees of National Tourism Agency are always ready to help in any way. Equipped with computers and all kinds of informational brochures. Maps and printed materials there are free so you can use them. You’ll find a small nice fountain in the park that shines in summer nights with its lighting system. Free wi-fi of the town is also available there. (Tbilisi loves you). Rustaveli Avenue, Freedom Square and Pushkin Park are ideal for walks even at night. Historical part of the city is also near. There are many restaurants around and one huge shopping mall named Gallery Tbilisi.

Getting here is quite easy. You can use all kinds of public transports (Metro, Bus, Micro Bus) and taxi for sure. For more information about public transport you can use application Google Maps or visit these links:   http://ttc.com.ge/?lang_id=ENG&sec_id=1   /   http://tm.ge/?&date1=2018-02-24&date2=2018-02-24&lang=2

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When it comes to travelling Australia, there’s no better way to get equipped than at an Accredited Visitor Information Centre. Dotted around the country, you’ll spot their signature blue and yellow signs in big cities, remote national parks and charming outback towns; wherever there’s attractions for tourists, you can guarantee an AVIC will be nearby to greet you with a warm and friendly smile. Bursting with extensive local knowledge, tips and tricks and useful gear, whether you’re a first-time or seasoned traveller, you’ll always come away with useful information to make your trip extra special. Here are just a few things you’ll get from visiting.

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The accredited visitor information centres are marked by the AVIC yellow and blue logo, so be sure to look out for them on your travels.

AVIC’s are highly regarded for providing credible and comprehensive advice. If you’re looking for unbiased recommendations and help with booking, you can be confident in getting all of the support you need from their knowledgeable staff members. You can book activities through the local AVIC before your trip, or stop in when you arrive and let the friendly team help you choose epic experiences and maximise your time in the region. In many places you’ll also find access to in-language brochures for popular attractions. Some centres even offer their own fascinating experiences, such as Wadlata’s historical Tunnel of Time exhibit in South Australia and the Big Golden Guitar in Tamworth.

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Stopping by your nearest AVIC to plan and book your trip not only eliminates any stress, but it’s also a sure way to make some savings. As local travel experts with inside knowledge about local deals , the centre’s professional staff can recommend the best-rated experiences at the most affordable cost. As a result, you can leave with confidence and an itinerary packed with your favourite experiences, all within budget.

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It’s often the experiences you weren’t expecting that end up being some of the very best. AVICs are bursting with local tips, including where to find secret walking trails, picnic spots and lesser-known activities that will make your trip extra special. Discover a new national park , lock lips with the best coffee in town and join an exclusive tour. There’s nothing better than insider-knowledge, especially when it comes from a smiley local.

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Get the Visitor Information Centre App to find any accredited centre while on your travels.

AVICs stay up to date with everything and anything travel related, from local weather to current road conditions; they can even tell you where to spot wildlife on the same day! Stop by to plan your day, grab a couple of maps, and equip yourself with your favourite local merchandise before hitting the road (or trails!).

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Getting to know the region you’re exploring often leads to a more meaningful holiday, and there’s no better way to learn about a place than from a local. At AVICs, passionate residents are keen to share the area’s history and heritage with visitors, including sacred sites and First Nations culture , along with local stories old and new. Some visitor centres double as cultural centres, offering tours, interactive displays and educational programs. To really immerse yourself in the region’s culture, join an Indigenous guided tour which you can find out about at any AVIC.

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There are 40 accredited Visitor Information Centres (VICs) spread across our state. They achieve their accreditation status by adhering to the National Accreditation Standard. Only Accredited VICs can display the trademarked yellow italic “i” sign, which serves to guarantee quality service and reliable information.

Accredited VICs play an important role in our tourism industry. They make a significant economic contribution to tourism, particularly in regional areas, by providing information to visitors that encourages them to stay longer, spend more and experience more attractions. VICs also create significant social benefits, many rely heavily on a volunteer workforce and operate as an important community facility.

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