How does TravelType work?
TravelType learns your travel taste from your ratings and recommends places that truly fit you.
What is TravelType?
A travel app that learns your personal taste. You rate places with ❤️, 👍 or 👎, and we build an individual travel profile from your ratings. Based on that you get recommendations that match your taste — instead of seeing the same top-10 everywhere.
How does TravelType learn my taste?
Every rating you give helps the app understand your taste better. It analyzes what atmospheres, themes and styles you like, and adjusts its recommendations accordingly. The more you rate, the more precise your profile becomes.
What is the Match-Score?
The Match-Score is a number from 0 to 100 that shows how well a place or city fits your taste. The higher the value, the better the places align with your preferences. The score becomes visible once you've rated at least 50 places.
What is a Travel-Archetype?
A Travel-Archetype is your derived travel profile — a description of your personal travel style, based on your ratings. After about 20 ratings your favorite categories start to emerge, mapping to one of eight different archetypes. With more ratings the picture becomes sharper.
How many ratings do I need?
After about 20 ratings your first archetypes and personal categories become visible. With 50 ratings your Match-Score appears. Full match coloring on the map (in four levels) requires at least 150 rated places. But recommendations work well before that too.
Where do the places come from?
We start with open data from Wikidata and OpenStreetMap, mainly in the German-speaking region (DACH). The catalog keeps growing continuously. If you're missing a city, write us anytime — we love hearing from you.