# Create your first guidebook

This guide will walk you through creating your first guidebook in GUIBO. A guidebook represents a travel product that can be published to travelers or to the [B2B network](https://docs.guibo.travel/publishing/b2b-network).

**Prerequisites Before creating a guidebook, you should have:**

* [Set up your account](https://docs.guibo.travel/get-started/getting-started/initial-account-setup) and configured languages
* [Created at least one library](https://docs.guibo.travel/get-started/getting-started/prepare-library) for routes, POIs, Destination Points, Transfers and text content

## Step 1: Create a New Guidebook

1. From the main dashboard, click the + button in the Guidebooks section
2. Enter a Title for your guidebook in your primary language

## Step 2: Set Up the itinerary in the guidebook

1. Navigate to Content section and click on "Edit"
2. Navigate to Tour itinerary and click on "Add Stage"
3. Enter the stage name in all languages. \
   **Best practice:** Choose as title "*From City1 to Village2*"\
   Note that we recommend avoiding the use of “Day xx” in stage titles:
   \
   Stages without a fixed day reference can be easily reused across different trip durations, so personalized releases don’t require any changes to stage names.
4. Define the destinations per Stage [(How to set a destination point?)](https://docs.guibo.travel/publishing/how-to-publish/personalized-accommodation#setting-destination-points-best-practice)

## Step 3: Add Routes

1. Open the stage and click "Add item" and choose either to:
   * Upload GPX to import an existing track
   * Create Route Manually to draw it on the map
2. Save the route in a library to reuse it in the next guidebook

## Step 4: Create POIs

1. Open the stage and click "Add item" and choose either:
   * Search & Import POIs from Google Places
   * Create POIs manually
2. Save in a library if you want to reuse it in the next guidebook

## Step 5: Things to Know

1. Navigate to "Things to Know"
2. Click on "Add item"
3. Create a new text page or import one from your library. \
   **Best practice**: Add information that is not geolocated, like a "Packlist"

## Step 6: Organize Content Structure

1. Move stages, routes, POIs, text pages or destination points via drag & drop

## Step 7: Preview Your Guidebook

1. Navigate to the Guidebook start view and go to the section "Channels"
2. Click on the Settings icon in the line "Smartphone App"
3. Use the Test Release Code with your [test device](https://docs.guibo.travel/faq/how-can-i-test-my-guidebooks-on-the-smarthone) to preview the content in the GUIBO or your White Label App

## Step 8: Mark as Ready to Publish

1. Activate the channels you want to use (App, PDF, GPX)
2. Change the status from "In preparation" to "Approved"
3. Your guidebook is now ready to be published to travelers


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