Advertise With Us
Visit Gatlinburg & Pigeon Forge is a small, locally run guide to the Smokies. We cover about 240 restaurants and attractions around Gatlinburg and Pigeon Forge, plus a monthly guide to what’s going on and a steady run of park and event news. People find us while they’re planning a trip, and a good share of them come to us from Bing and DuckDuckGo.
Audience numbers are available on request.
We’re still growing, and our prices are set for a site our size. If you’re a local business that wants to be in front of people before they get to town, here’s what we offer.
Featured Listing
Your business moves to the top of its town and category page, like Pigeon Forge Restaurants or Gatlinburg Attractions, with a Featured label. Your own listing page gets a longer write-up, up to six photos and a button to your website or booking page. We only feature three businesses per page, so the spot means something. Google ads still run on the page, but we don’t put one right next to your spot.
$25 a month, or $250 for a year.
Page Sponsor
One business gets a banner near the top of one of our main pages, marked Sponsored. Only one sponsor per page at a time, and there are no other ads on your page while you sponsor it. We turn off Google ads on that page for as long as your sponsorship runs, so a competitor’s ad won’t show up next to yours. Our lodging pages and the wedding chapel guide get the most search traffic, so they cost a little more.
- Pigeon Forge Lodging, Gatlinburg Lodging or Gatlinburg Wedding Chapels: $50 a month, or $500 for a year
- Restaurant, attraction, camping, shopping or webcam pages: $35 a month, or $350 for a year
Banners are 728 by 90 pixels for desktop and 300 by 250 for phones. Send us both, or send your logo and a line of text and we’ll put one together at no charge.
Monthly Guide Sponsor
Every month we put out a guide to that month in Pigeon Forge, with events, hours, holiday shows and the things locals actually do. Our November guide has been one of our most popular pages. A guide sponsor gets a short box near the top that says the guide is brought to you by your business, with your logo and a few sentences that link to your site. One sponsor per month. Google ads still run on the guide, but we don’t put one right next to your box.
$50 for one month’s guide, or $125 for three months in a row.
Sponsored Article
A full article about your business or something new you’re doing, like an opening or a holiday event. We can write it from a visit or a phone call with you for $100. If you’d rather write it yourself, it’s $75, and we’ll edit it to fit the site and check the facts. The article is marked Sponsored at the top, stays up for at least a year and goes out in our next newsletter. We take two sponsored articles a month at most.
Newsletter
Our email newsletter is new and still small, so we’re not selling ad space in it yet. Anyone on a yearly plan gets a mention in it for free while it grows.
Founding Partner Rate
The first ten businesses that sign up before December 31, 2026 get 25% off a monthly Featured Listing or Page Sponsor plan for their first twelve months. A Featured Listing comes to $18.75 a month. Page sponsors come to $26.25 a month for most pages and $37.50 for the lodging and wedding pages. That rate holds for the full year even if our prices go up.
How It Works
Fill out the form below or email editor@visitgatlinburgpigeonforge.com and tell us which option you’re interested in. We’ll write back within two business days to confirm the spot is open and go over what we need from you. Once you approve the ad, we send you a PayPal invoice. You can pay it by card or with a PayPal balance, and you don’t need a PayPal account to pay by card. Your placement goes live within three business days after payment. Monthly plans get a new PayPal invoice each month until you cancel. Yearly plans are paid up front.
How We Handle Ads
Anything paid on this site is labeled Featured or Sponsored, so readers always know. Links in paid placements are tagged as sponsored, the way Google asks, which means we don’t sell links to help anyone’s search ranking.
We have the final say on everything we publish. We’ll check your hours and prices before anything goes up, and we can turn down an ad that isn’t a good fit for families visiting the Smokies. Paying for a spot doesn’t change what we write about you anywhere else on the site, and every business keeps its free listing whether it advertises or not.