A brand new app may substitute Horry County’s brochures used for historic driving excursions across the space.
The county’s Historic Preservation Fee is wanting into the swap for 2 causes: it’s inexpensive and extra accessible to guests.
The fee has printed historic driving brochures for years, which value hundreds of {dollars} to print and replace. (In 2017, the fee requested $3,600 to reprint brochures for a single driving tour, in line with HPC data.)
The Horry County Driving Tour takes you to historic websites all through the county. Picture courtesy of Horry County Authorities
The excursions embrace the Horry County Driving Tour, the Galivants Ferry Driving Tour, the Socastee Driving Tour and the Little River Driving Tour.
These excursions characteristic spots round Horry County from Small’s Mercantile in Ketchuptown to the McCorsley in Little River to Bucks Mill Chimneys within the Bucksport space.
By switching to an app, info for the excursions can be present in one place. Plus, an individual doesn’t bodily need to be within the space to cease and seize a brochure, stated Lou Conklin, senior planner with Horry County Authorities.
“To us, that’s sort of like a win-win,” she stated. “Individuals like to do that type of tourism.”
The HPC lately voted to maneuver ahead with the app and is now exploring funding, which may very well be a finances enhancement or come from lodging taxes, Conklin stated.
The app would characteristic audio, photographs, textual content and different multimedia parts, in line with HPC paperwork.
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