Your new travel guide…Amanda Schick opens Orlando, FL Discovery Map franchise.

Your new travel guide…Amanda Schick opens Orlando, FL Discovery Map franchise.

DATELINE: ORLANDO, FLORIDA AND WAITSFIELD, VERMONT…

Discovery Map, creator of more than 100 customized travel maps across the United States, Canada, England, Costa Rica and Puerto Rico, recently announced Amanda Schick as the owner of the new Discovery Map to be published for Orlando, FL.

Discovery Map creates colorful, hand-drawn maps of towns and cities, distributed free to area visitors at the many hotels, restaurants, attractions and the “Visit Orlando” Official Visitors Center, as well as all the advertiser locations. The Orlando map will highlight local attractions and things to do, restaurants and bars, accommodations, retail shops, real estate and other services the area have to offer. Each advertiser on the map will be represented with a display ad surrounding the perimeter of the map, including a color-coded grid locator and their actual building hand-drawn, highlighted and labeled, making it easy to locate. 

Orlando is the #1 destination in the US for tourism! With the Big Three: Walt Disney World, Universal Studios, and Sea World, families, business travelers, and all types of travelers from abroad come to see the glory of what Orlando has to offer. With visitors spending over $27 Billion dollars in the Orlando area last year, we are thrilled to be able to offer local businesses the opportunity to showcase their businesses on the Very first edition of Discovery Map of Orlando! Get your business recognized; but this map isn’t just for visitors, it’s for all of the locals or the family that is newly moving here but doesn’t know where the best seafood restaurant is. It is for the adventurous family who wants to trek down a zip line over alligators! Orlando is a myriad of cultures and melting pot of every nationality in the world. Explore for yourself why Orlando is still the BEST place to Live, Play and Visit! Amanda grew up in the Orlando area and still calls it her home.

The Orlando, FL Map will offer a treasure trove of things to do for people vacationing in the area or just visiting for a day or two. Discovery Map free ‘souvenir style’ maps will have a minimum of 600,000 map distribution at over 350 local advertiser and non-advertiser locations. 

The Orlando, FL Discovery Map will hit the streets in April 2012. The Map will also be available on-line at discoverymap.com and resortmaps.com, along with interactive maps to more than 100 areas that Discovery Map covers. These interactive maps allow the viewer to read a description of each business as they scroll over each building and to connect to the website of the business for further information.

For information on how to advertise on the initial Orlando, FL Discovery Map, you can e-mail Amanda Schick at amandas@discoverymap.com or call 407-900-4196.

About Discovery Map

Headquartered in the Green Mountains of Vermont, Discovery Map International, Inc. has been creating and publishing advertising maps in the northeastern U.S. since 1986. In 1993, Discovery Map, then Resort Maps, expanded its reach by creating a franchise model for distribution of its colorful, hand-drawn maps of resort towns and cities. Resort Maps Franchise, Inc., the parent company, bought Discovery Map International and now has changed its name following the acquisition.  Today, that network of franchises has grown to more than 100 Discovery Map in publication in the US, Canada, the UK, Costa Rica and Puerto Rico, with several more in the process of being published.  Nearly 20 million Discovery Map will be printed and distributed in 2012.

For more information on Discovery Map International, Inc., a member of the Resort Maps Family, and/or the franchise opportunity, visit resortmaps.com or call 802-496-6277.

Discovery Map franchises serve cities and towns in Arizona (Flagstaff, Grand Canyon, Sedona, Tucson), California (Carlsbad, Carmel, Los Gatos, Monterey, San Diego, Saratoga), Colorado (Boulder, Breckenridge, Cherry Creek, Colorado Springs, Denver, Durango, Steamboat Springs, Vail & Beaver Creek, Estes Park, Fort Collins, Summit County), Delaware (Bethany Beach, Rehoboth Beach), Florida (Amelia Island, Boca Raton, Clearwater Beach and Gulf Beaches, Cocoa Beach, Daytona Beach, Delray Beach, Destin, Key West, Melbourne, New Smyrna Beach, Orlando, St. Augustine, St. Petersburg/St. Pete Beach, Tarpon Springs), Georgia (Savannah/Tybee Island, St. Mary’s), Idaho (Coeur D’Alene, McCall, Sandpoint, Sun Valley), Kentucky (Lexington) Maine (Bar Harbor/Acadia, Boothbay region, Camden-Rockland, Kennebunkport, Kittery, Portland, York-Ogunquit), Maryland (Annapolis, Eastern Shore, Ocean City,  Solomons Island, St. Mary’s County), Massachusetts (Berkshires, Brewster/Harwich/Dennis, Chatham-Orleans, Eastham-Wellfleet, Falmouth, Hyannis-Yarmouth, Martha’s Vineyard, Newburyport, Plymouth, Sturbridge, Worcester), Michigan (Northern Michigan/Petoskey/Harbor Springs; Traverse City), Montana (Bozeman & Big Sky, Butte, Kalispell, Missoula, West Yellowstone, Whitefish), New Hampshire (Franconia/Notch Region, Hampton Beach, Hanover/Lebanon, Keene, Lakes Region, Mount Washington Valley, Portsmouth), New Jersey (Barnegat Bay, Cape May, Hoboken/Jersey City, Hunterdon, Lambertville , Long Beach Island, New Brunswick, Ocean Grove, Point Pleasant, Princeton, Sandy Hook), New Mexico (Santa Fe, Taos), New York (The North Fork, Lake George , Lake Placid, Saratoga Springs, The Hamptons,), North Carolina (Asheville, Brunswick County, Charlotte, Crystal Coast, Hendersonville, Outer Banks, Salisbury and Rowan County, Sandhills, Wilmington,), Oregon (Bend), Pennsylvania (Bucks County, Chestnut Hill, Delaware River Valley, Gettysburg, Lehigh Valley, The Main Line, Lancaster County), Rhode Island (Narragansett/Block Island, Newport, Providence), South Carolina (Charleston, Hilton Head, Myrtle Beach), Tennessee (Gatlinburg, Pigeon Forge), Vermont (Addison County/Brandon, Barre/Montpelier, Burlington, Killington/Rutland, Mad River Valley, Manchester, Mount Snow, Okemo, Smugglers’ Notch, Stowe, Waterbury/Richmond, Woodstock/Quechee) and Virginia (Alexandria, Charlottesville, Lynchburg, Norfolk, Northern Neck & Middle Peninsula, Richmond, Virginia Beach) Washington (Anacortes, Bellingham, La Conner), Wisconsin (Door County) —as well as towns and cities in England (Chicester, Lewes), Puerto Rico (San Juan, Vieques, Culebra), Costa Rica (Escazu-Santa Ana) and Canada (Charlotte County).