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Confused about the Travel Personality graph!
Hi there,
I've been trying to work out how to create my Travel Personality, and after looking everywhere on the site and not finding it - I've now realised that it's auto-generated as soon as you start to add trips to your Wish List (but this is not really clear beforehand).
However, having added just four trips to the list - all of them in Australia, my travel personality is now showing that I am most interested in 'weekend'. Which of course might be the case if I actually lived in Australia (although given how large it is, probably not!) but is certainly not relevant to someone in the UK . . . Not really sure the Travel Personality section is really working at the moment.
What do other people think? Does your 'travel personality' reflect the real you??
Cheers,
Gill
PS - can someone sort out this text box so that the 'Add an image' button doesn't cover up the text you're trying to write when you get to the 4th line! Ta :)
I've been trying to work out how to create my Travel Personality, and after looking everywhere on the site and not finding it - I've now realised that it's auto-generated as soon as you start to add trips to your Wish List (but this is not really clear beforehand).
However, having added just four trips to the list - all of them in Australia, my travel personality is now showing that I am most interested in 'weekend'. Which of course might be the case if I actually lived in Australia (although given how large it is, probably not!) but is certainly not relevant to someone in the UK . . . Not really sure the Travel Personality section is really working at the moment.
What do other people think? Does your 'travel personality' reflect the real you??
Cheers,
Gill
PS - can someone sort out this text box so that the 'Add an image' button doesn't cover up the text you're trying to write when you get to the 4th line! Ta :)
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Inappropriate?Hi Gill,
You bring up an interesting issue.
We think many of our users like to see "weekend trips." For example, I live in San Francisco and I travel most frequently within 200 miles (about 350 km) of San Francisco. But I don't want to see trips in San Francisco... I want trips in Wine Country, Lake Tahoe, Big Sur, Marin County.... But geolocation alone isn't enough. If somebody lives in the suburbs of San Francisco, they generally won't consider trips in city-proper to be weekend getaways. So we need the tag "weekend" to identify the proper weekend trips.
As you noticed, once you're outside of your home area (like Australia in your case), this strategy falls down.
How do you think we can improve? Is there another tag that works better?
Thanks,
Adam -
Inappropriate?Hi Adam,
I think the weekend tag will only ever work if it can be related to a person's home location. As this issue indicates - what is a potential weekend trip option for one person is definitely not for another! Realistically, the furthest I can get from the UK for, say, a three night weekend would be probably be somewhere like Rome - so I'd want to see this, and anything closer, if I selected 'weekend'. But if I lived in Brisbane for example, then of course Sydney is a possible weekend destination! Many of the other tags are more general - 'romantic', 'shopping' etc. - so could be anywhere. From a 'searching' point of view you'd need to select these along with other criteria to limit the selection to where you're planning to go - e.g. 'shopping and Europe'. Likewise I could select 'weekend and Europe' I suppose, to limit the results. By the way, I notice when I do this that the list comes up in Alphabetical order, which is not technically necessary (as per on of my earlier posts) but at least randomises the results geographically. But when you pick one and start to flick through the stack, they seem to be ordered geographically - in this instance starting with Cornwall and then moving up through Devon and into Somerset (I got bored of looking after that). I think this needs to be more random!
Anyway, getting back to the point. I guess my key question in relation to the Traveller Personality is - what's it for?? If it's just for me, well, I know my traveller personality anyway - I don't need a pie chart to tell me! And if it's for other people - then it only works if I can find a trip I like, look at the writer's profile, and then go see all their other trips if their traveller personality is similar to mine. Was this the purpose of it? If so, am not really sure it's necessary as if I like one of their trips I'll probably just look at their others once I get to their page anyway - rather than scrolling down to look at the pie chart first.
I'd be very interested to know how you see it being used and then might be able to offer additional suggestions on how to make it better!
Cheers,
Gill
PS - I just did a test to check this theory. I selected Zambia (as it happens to be somewhere I've been) and found a trip about 'Running the Zambezi River'. I then clicked on the author name to see their Travel Personality. Interestingly, they have one, although it says they have no Wishlist and no Recommendations! So where did it come from? How was it created? I also see that the entries are more specific - not just 'weekend' or 'romantic' but odd things like 'salmon migration' and 'Seattle Wildlife'. I'm now even more confused!
On another note - if you have a look you will see that on the longer tags, these are not displaying properly, they disappear off the end left and right!
G
I’m confused, but really want to help!
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Inappropriate?Hi Gill,
We're working with the tags in the user profiles (the travel personality) behind the scenes. The experience on the website will reflect that soon.
If you're interested in how one website tackles these problems, this is a good read: http://tinyurl.com/5byw73.
We strongly believe in teasing out weekend getaways. Easier said than done, but we'll continue to try.
Thanks for the thoughtful feedback.
Best,
Adam -
Inappropriate?why not provide the ability to click thru the pie chart topics to see trips corresponding to that interest? -
Inappropriate?Not a bad idea, thanks Kevin. The pie slices could correspond to tags like "beach" or "ski." We'll consider that.
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