Applications are now open for Travel Guides Asheville’s Ultimate 2026 Guide To: The Best Things To Do This Spring in and around Asheville, North Carolina! This guide will highlight seasonal activities and experiences across Asheville and the Blue Ridge Mountains to inspire visitors planning their spring trips to the area.
By featuring your business, you’ll connect with travelers actively planning spring trips to Asheville, along with locals and visitors looking for memorable experiences, places to explore, and activities to add to their itinerary during the spring season.
We’ll be promoting the guide extensively through June 20th on our Instagram, website, and all of our social media channels—Facebook, Threads, TikTok, YouTube, Pinterest, and Threads.
We offer a limited number of flexible-rate placements each season for businesses experiencing financial hardship who are not able to participate at our standard rates. These placements are reserved for select cases and are reviewed and approved individually.
Posting Dates & Deadlines:
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Posting Dates & Deadlines:
This guide will be posted on Travel Guides Asheville’s Instagram & website on Sunday, April 13, 2026.
*Applications close Tuesday, April 7 at 11 PM.
*Approvals will be sent on a rolling basis and by the latest Wednesday, April 8. To keep this guide accessible and well-balanced, we’ll be reviewing applications in phases and confirming spots as space allows.
*One-Time Payment of $550 (or your approved Flexible-Rate) is due within 24 business hours of approval to guarantee your spot.
Why Apply:
We’ve worked with over 700 local businesses throughout Asheville, WNC and North Carolina in the past 4 years!
Get featured across Instagram, Facebook, Pinterest, TikTok, YouTube (new!), and ourwebsite
Reach thousands of engaged local and regional followers, with over 1M total monthly viewers on IG alone
BONUS: We’re reinvesting profits into running paid ads to expand the guide’s reach beyond just our followers
New Bonuses
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NEW 2026 Guide Feature Bonuses:
We are launching an updated guide layout & format! Check out an example here.
All featured businesses will be added to our interactive TGA Spring Experiences Map, making it easy for followers to find your business, website, reviews and more!
All featured businesses will receive at least 3 reposts from our Instagram over the next several weeks to help boost your visibility and engagement.
(These will appear under the new “Reposts” section of our profile — not on our main feed.)Full-rate participants and early applicants may receive priority placement near the top of the guide for maximum visibility.
💌Optional Incentive:
• You’re invited to create a custom promo or discount code for TGA followers — a great way to drive bookings, track engagement, and make your offer stand out to new customers.Exclusive Collaborator Post Bundle Offer:
Want a stand-alone spotlight on the TGA feed?
For businesses featured in this guide, we’re offering our largest collaboration post discount of the season.
Bundle your guide feature + a collaborator post for $750 (a $1,200 value) and share your business with our 150K+ Asheville-loving audience (you’ll find this offer in the application to redeem!)
Our website version of the guide can now feature more than 4 photos per business — allowing you to showcase a full gallery!
New? Start Here!
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New to Travel Guides Asheville?
Here’s a breakdown below if you haven’t worked with us before!
How It Works:
Once you submit your application you will receive an approval or follow up email within 24 hours.
You will receive a check out link within your approval email to purchase your business’s spot in the guide.
You must purchase your spot to be included in this guide within 24 business hours of receiving your approval email. Your payment guarantees your spot!
Our “Ultimate 2026 Guide To: The Best Things To Do This Spring in and around Asheville, North Carolina” guide will be posted on Sunday, April 13, 2025. Every guide is posted on:
@travelguidesashevilleInstagram Feed (@travelguidesasheville)
Instagram Stories
Facebook (@travelguidesasheville)
Website (added to our home page through spring, remains on our site forever! (www.travelguidesasheville.com)
Pinterest (@travelguidesasheville)
Tik Tok (@travelguidesasheville)
NEW: YouTube (@travelguidesasheville)
Posting Dates & Deadlines:
This guide will be posted on Travel Guides Asheville’s Instagram & website on Sunday, April 13, 2026.
*Applications close Tuesday, April 7 at 11 PM.
*Approvals will be sent on a rolling basis and by the latest Wednesday, April 8. To keep this guide accessible and well-balanced, we’ll be reviewing applications in phases and confirming spots as space allows.
*One-Time Payment of $550 (or your approved Flexible-Rate) is due within 24 business hours of approval to guarantee your spot.
FAQ
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You’ll submit 4 photos for the Instagram version of the guide — plus you’re welcome to include additional photos for the website version, where we can now feature a full gallery!
Your business name, Instagram handle, and physical location address (if applicable) will be included as well!
The guide - as posted on our website - also includes a button that links to your business website (not included on Instagram, TikTok, or Pinterest versions of the guide).
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No, Travel Guides Asheville is currently an online-only travel guide!
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No. It’s a one-time fee to be included in the guide. The guide then remains available forever!
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Forever! The guide stays on our website and socials (Instagram, Pinterest, TikTok) as a permanent post.
Bonus? For up to a year after the guide is posted, we frequently re-share it into our Instagram stories + include it in our Link in Bio. This reminds our audience (and new followers) what guides we have available on our page!
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No! The application is free and payment will only be due after you have been approved. One you receive your approval email, you then have 48 hours to check out and submit payment.
Your spot is held during this time, and once you submit payment you are guaranteed your spot.
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There are so many benefits to working with us!
Think of Travel Guides Asheville as being your personal marketing team - we love supporting the businesses & individuals we work with. Here are some of the benefits of participating in a guide feature:
• You will be presented in front of our Asheville-based audience, across each of our channels - all of which are popular among locals & visitors to the area! Our guides also make a great reference point. For example, when someone asks, “Who are the best wedding photographers in the area?”, our followers (or anyone who has seen the list) can easily share the applicable guide.
• Our approach also takes social media SEO into consideration. By using strategic keywords, our Instagram posts are indexed by Google Search and added to search results to offer you added visibility to an even wider audience.
• Another way we get you in front of your key target audience and potential clients is through our involvement in the popular Facebook Communities/Groups for Asheville. It is common to see visitors and locals alike popping into these Facebook groups to ask questions. For example, a user may post, "Who's a great wedding photographer based in Asheville?" We actively monitor these groups, sharing relevant guides to help answer questions and promote our featured businesses and individuals.
• Across all our channels and social media engagement, we continually prioritize those who have worked with us - especially as it relates to sharing content you tag us in on Instagram! We love to share local businesses and entrepreneurs in our IG stories whenever we can. That's what we're all about - supporting local! You now have a forever social media support team - tag us in your posts or your stories and we will re-share with our audience, even long after the guide has posted. We also try to keep an eye on your page and comment, save, share, and like your posts, too!
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• You pick the photos that are included in the guide! We feature four photos on each business's page in the Instagram version of the guide. You’ll find this information in the form you fill out before checking out/submitting payment.
• Your business’s Instagram @ name is shared on your page of the guide and in the caption/description section. This way viewers can easily find you on social media and check out your page!
• Wanting more backlinks to your website? When a guide is posted on our website, we have a clickable button under each businesses featured section that links to their website.
• Questions about SEO? A ton of work behind the scenes goes into to making sure our guides appear in Google results and Pinterest/Facebook/Instagram searches. SEO Titles, navigation titles, keywords, tags and categories, site and page descriptions, image names, alt. text, etc. are all part of our process for SEO.
• Insights after 21 days of the guide posting date are sent to your email. This way you can see how well the post performed on all of our social platforms!