To configure a tabbed app where each tab shows a different extent, scale or content, you may have already looked at our Story Map Series app. Story Map Series isn't place driven like Story Map Shortlist, but if your maps show point features, and you are OK without the picture gallery that the Shortlist provides, you may find Story Map Series useful. In a Story Map Series each tab can show any area at any scale on the same web map, with any choice of layers turned on or off in that map. You can alternately have each tab show a different map. Plus tabs can also show images, videos, etc.
Here are a few Story Map Series tabbed examples in the Story Map Gallery filtered on Travel and Recreation
Gallery | Story Maps (In that set, this one is a Story Map Series with each tab showing a different Story Map Journal: http://arcgis-content.maps.arcgis.com/apps/MapSeries/index.html?appid=fbf644cbbba441c7bd9b1a00d03c87... )
Rupert