Lakes and Hills Website Policy

Lakes and Hills Website Policy:

The Lakes and Hills website is owned and operated by the Hill Country Economic Development Council (HCEDC). All Policies and Procedures related to the management of this website are established by the Board of Directors of the HCEDC.

As a Regional Tourism Guide for Llano and Burnet counties, the goal of this website is to present information about everything there is to see and do here in a manner that encourages our audience to visit this region. The HCEDC may spotlight some tourism related items more than others if, in the sole discretion of the HCEDC, it believes doing so will attract more visitors to the region.

This directory guide freely lists any business, attraction, activity or event within Burnet or Llano Counties, deemed by the HCEDC to be "Tourism Related", regardless of affiliation with any Chamber of Commerce or other member entity of the Hill Country EDC.

A business shall qualify as "Tourism Related" if the nature of that business is construed by the Tourism Committee to fall within one of their defined categories on the website, or, justifies the addition of a new category on the website (see Site Map).

Each qualifying business shall be entitled to free listings in up to three (3), applicable categories. Additional category listings are available for a small fee (see Advertising Rates).

A free basic listing may be upgraded to a Premium Listing for a small fee (see Advertising Rates).

Tourism related businesses who wish to advertise on pages other than the category page containing their Basic or Premium listing(s) may do so by purchasing Business Advertisements on other pages.

Business Advertisements are also available to Non-Tourism Related businesses located within the HCEDC region.

Business Advertisements may also be made available to entities outside of the HCEDC region, such as Chambers of Commerce and Visitor's Bureaus.

All requests for inclusion in this website, whether it's free listings or paid advertising, are subject to the approval of the Tourism Committee of the HCEDC. To submit your information for free inclusion in this directory please use our on-line Listing Form.

The Tourism Committee is responsible for screening all proposed content to insure it qualifies as a Tourism Related item and for compliance of the content with any design guidelines and limitations established for this website. The Tourism Committee has the authority to reject any Business Advertisement that it deems to be inappropriate within the Lakes and Hills website due to the nature of the ad being in poor taste, sexually explicate, overly political or for such other reasonable objection.

For purposes of this directory guide, the Hill Country EDC territory is divided into five (5) geographic regions consisting of: 1) Llano Area; 2) Lake Buchanan/Inks Lake Area; 3) Lake LBJ Area; 4) Marble Falls/Spicewood Area, and; 5) Burnet/Bertram Area.

To insure ease of navigation, the following structure has been defined (see Site Map).:

1. Lodging shall be grouped by region and sub-divided by class of lodging.

2. Dining shall be grouped by region and sub-divided first by sit-down vs. fast food and then sub-divided by type of cuisine.

3. Shopping shall be grouped by category and sub-divided by region.

4. Things to Do shall be grouped by classification and sub-divided by category, but, not regionalized.

Lodging entities often have amenities such as Swimming, Fishing and Boat Slips, and would like to be listed under all of those categories. To the extent that a business entity offers such amenities to the public on a free, hourly or day-rate basis, exclusive of any other requirements, such as being a guest of the facility, then we will include them in those other categories.