Explore Publishing, Inc. has specialized in producing high quality guides for over 30 years, focusing on Silicon Valley and the San Francisco Peninsula. Current publications include:
Discover Silicon Valley
Since 1975, Discover Silicon Valley has been the leading monthly visitors guide to Silicon Valley, stretching from San Mateo, Palo Alto, Santa Clara and the Greater San Jose Area, to Los Gatos/Saratoga, Milpitas and Gilroy. (Over 8 million copies in print!) Discover’s monthly press run of 30,000 copies is distributed at virtually every hotel and motel throughout the region. In addition, Discover is also used by leading high technology companies, relocation companies and chambers of commerce, providing high visibility in the local business community. Discover’s small size, maps and complete up-to-date information on events, exhibits and performing arts make it a convenient portable guide to everything going on in the area, including shopping, dining and points of interest. Published monthly.
Explore Silicon Valley is an annual hard-bound, high-quality visitor guide featured to guests in close to 12,500 rooms at over 60 of the area’s leading hotels and inns in Silicon Valley as well as the Santa Cruz County Coast–an area centering on San Jose, Santa Clara, Cupertino and Campbell, extending north to Sunnyvale, south to Gilroy, east to Milpitas and west to Los Gatos, Saratoga and the Coast. Designed, written and edited specifically as a guide for upscale, high-income visitors, Explore focuses on the local area, blending advertising and editorial copy into highly attractive, easy-to-use sections covering the best in nearby dining, shopping, entertainment, events, wineries, sports and places of interest. Published annually, it has a readership of over 1.5 million. Next publication date: Oct. 2008.
Explore the Peninsula is an annual hard-bound, high-quality visitor guide featured to guests in over 7,000 guest rooms at 50 leading hotels, inns and B&Bs on the San Francisco Peninsula – from Burlingame/San Francisco Airport to Mountain View, including Palo Alto, Menlo Park, San Mateo and the nearby San Mateo County Coast. Designed, written and edited specifically as a guide for upscale, high-income visitors, Explore the Peninsula’s focus and format are comparable to Explore Silicon Valley (above), but with a different geographic coverage. Published annually, it has a readership of over 1 million. Publish date: June 2008.
