Travel Vibes

What a place is actually good at.

A vibe is a thing you want to do on a trip. Eat somewhere that takes its food seriously. Dive off a beach instead of a boat. Sit in a temple people still use. We score every destination against every vibe it genuinely delivers, one at a time.

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A snorkeler over a shallow reef in clear water

The shape of it

Big underneath, short on screen.

The engine reasons in a much bigger vocabulary than it shows you. That's the point.

12,000+ scored vibe matches One row per place per travel style, each with its own score.

690+ travel styles scored The full vocabulary the engine reasons in, before any of it reaches you.

147 vibes you actually pick from What those styles collapse into once the near-twins are merged.

24 collections to browse What those vibes are grouped under, so the picker is a short list and not a wall.

A destination gets scored for a travel style only when it delivers a real version of it. Technically having the activity isn't enough, or every coastal town would rank for diving and the list would be useless.

How a score is made

Six questions, asked the same way every time.

How distinctive is it here

Is the place known for it, or does it just happen to have one? Weighted heaviest, because it's the difference between a recommendation and a coincidence.

How good is it

The condition of the actual thing. A reef that's alive. A food scene that's still there and not a memory.

How much of it is there

One famous restaurant is not a food destination. A week of them is.

How hard is it to reach

Real routes from real airports. A perfect answer you can't get to isn't an answer.

How reliable is it

Across seasons, weather and opening times. Some places are a ten in May and a four in August.

What does it cost you

Counted last and weighted least, because cheap and disappointing helps nobody.

A regional dish being prepared at a market stall

From 690 to 147

Then we throw most of it away.

The engine holds 690+ separate travel styles, because that's what it takes to score the world honestly. Nobody wants to scroll through 690 of anything.

So they get merged. Near-twins collapse into one, and regional wordings for the same idea become the same idea. What's left is 147 vibes across 24 collections, each still pointing back at every scored row underneath. You pick from the short list. The engine searches the long one.

Pick a vibe, and every destination scored for it comes back ranked
Pick several, and the engine finds where they overlap
Every score carries its six numbers, so you can see the reasoning
Scored within a region first, so second place actually means something

What you pick from

Twenty-four collections of things to do.

Every collection opens into the vibes underneath it. Same collections, same photos as the app's picker.

Live matching, current pricing and booking all happen in the WhereTo app.

Ready to wander?

Start from what you want to do.

Pick your vibes in the WhereTo app and get back destinations that are scored against them, priced for your budget and bookable.

WhereTo is a mobile app for iOS & Android. WhereTo plans trips that depart from US airports, to destinations worldwide. The website is for discovery only and doesn’t support booking.