HootBoard CityGuide has been rebuilt from the ground up, and the new admin is a big part of the jump. CityGuide turns any kiosk into a local guide visitors actually use — food, stays, events, and things to do, with no app or account. What makes that sustainable is the side visitors never see: the rebuilt CityGuide is as easy to manage as it is to browse, so a destination’s guide stays accurate and current without becoming a second job.
Build and curate from one dashboard
Everything runs from a single dashboard. Add, tag, and feature locations in seconds, and use the drag-to-arrange featured carousel to put your best recommendations front and center on every kiosk. Standing up a whole destination at once? Bulk-upload your directory and tag it as you go, instead of entering listings one at a time. The result is that adding a new place, refreshing a photo, or re-ordering what’s featured is a quick edit rather than a project.
Organize by neighborhood
Group places into geographic neighborhoods so visitors can filter by where they’re headed. It’s a small piece of setup that makes a large destination feel navigable — and it’s managed from the same screen as everything else, so the way visitors explore the guide stays in step with how you’ve organized it.
Sync with your source of truth — and keep your edits
CityGuide connects to the systems a destination already relies on — Simpleview, Tempest, Overture Maps, GTFS, and CivicPlus are built in — so listings stay fresh automatically instead of being copied over by hand. And because manual edits always win, a sync never overwrites the careful changes a team has made. That’s the balance most tools miss: the convenience of automation without giving up control of the details you’ve fine-tuned.
Why it matters
A guide is only as useful as it is current, and the rebuilt CityGuide is designed so staying current takes minutes, not afternoons. The routine updates take care of themselves through sync, while the judgment calls that genuinely need a person — which spot to feature this month, how to group a new district — happen in a few clicks. For teams who maintain a destination, and for anyone weighing HootBoard for theirs, the new version means the guide visitors rely on is always accurate, on-brand, and curated — without a dedicated content team behind it.
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