Guides and places to stay

The library under Guides and Places to stay holds the people and places you use on many trips. Add them once and pick them on each trip; a change in the library shows on every trip that uses them. Editors and Admins can change the library. Each card shows which trips use it, or Not on a trip yet.

Guides

Open Guides and select New guide. Add each guide with:

• Name and Role, such as Kari Nordvik, mountain leader
• About: a few sentences travellers will read on the trip page
• Photo and Languages, such as Norwegian and English
• Email and Phone, which only your team sees

Select Add guide. To change a guide later, open them and select Save guide.

On a trip, choose its guides under Details. Booking pages show each guide's name, role, bio, photo and languages, never their email or phone.

Places to stay

Open Places to stay and select New place for hotels, cabins, huts and lodges. Add each one with:

• Name, Town or area and Country, such as Reine Rorbuer in Reine, Lofoten, Norway
• Website and Hotel class: the official star category, from 1-star to 5-star, or None for cabins, huts and guest houses without one. It is the hotel's category, not a review score.
• Description and Photos, up to 20. Drop photos onto the dialog, upload them, or choose them from Media. The first photo is the cover; drag to change the order.

Select Add place, or Save place after a change.

On an itinerary day, choose where travellers sleep that night. The booking page shows the place's name, location, rating and website. See Build the itinerary.

For a one-off place you won't use again, choose Write it in on the itinerary day instead of adding it to the library. You can also add a new place to the library straight from the day.

Move to the bin

Move to bin on a card takes a guide or place out of the library. A guide who leads a trip, or a place in a trip's itinerary, has to be taken off the trip first. You can restore them from the bin.

A guide's own page

Open a guide and expand Their page on your website to add Lives in, Guiding since, a Quote, Why I guide, How I guide, What I love out there, Favourite places and My pick of your trips, with Why this trip. A Search title and Search description are there too. When your website uses CMS Orbit's guide page template, each guide gets a page at an address made from their name, such as /guides/ingrid-solberg/. If their name changes, the old address sends visitors on to the new one.

In other languages

When your organisation offers more than one language, open a guide or place and pick a language at the top of the dialog. For a guide you translate the role and the about text; for a place, the town or area, the description and the image descriptions. Everything else is the same in every language. See Languages.