About us
Seven directories, one small team, thirty years of checking
Visit New England is a set of regional travel directories that has been running since 1996. Every listing is written or reviewed by a person before it goes live, and the same small team has run the site for the last fifteen years. It is paid for by the businesses that appear on it, not by anyone who visits.
- The year the first site went live
- 1996
- Listings live across the 7 sites today
- 5,000+
Our story
We started before search engines. Still checked by hand.
Visit New England began in 1996 as a single page of places to stay along the Maine coast, typed up by hand and changed whenever an innkeeper wrote in. Most of the businesses on it had no website of their own, so for a while this was their website.
The other five states followed, and the network settled into the shape it still has: seven directories that share one set of listings, one small editorial team and one rule. If it goes on the site, a person has read it first.
Search engines now bring nearly all of our readers, and they arrive looking for something specific: a covered bridge, a sugarhouse, somewhere to sleep near Acadia. The job has not changed. Describe the place plainly, get the phone number right, send them on.
Jared & DanaOwners, Visit New England
“VisitNewEngland.com is always among our Top 5 Referral sites every year since joining, and in some years has been in our top 3”
“Partnering with Visit New England has been invaluable. We’ve been able to reach new audiences and engage visitors who may not have discovered us otherwise”
“The Email Blasts are incredible, we have nothing but positive feedback”
Seven sites, one team
Explore the Visit New England network of sites.
Newsletter
New England by email, every week, to people already planning a trip
Several emails a week. Events, foliage timing and what is open, written by the same three people who check the listings.
- Only one sponsor per send, linked at the top and in the body.
- Sent midweek, when people are planning the weekend.
- Get a report of all opens and clicks on your send.
- Subscribers
- 31,000
- Sends a week
- 3+
Run a place worth visiting?
Listings are free, reviewed by hand and usually live within two working days. Send us the name, the town and what people should know before they arrive.
Submit a listing