How TabiPulse Works

We monitor real travel discussions on Reddit — subreddits like r/JapanTravel, r/solotravel, r/VietnamTravel, and more. These are communities where travelers share honest, unsponsored experiences.

We also analyze YouTube travel vlogs and guides (350+ channels) and TikTok travel creators (330+ accounts) — extracting place mentions from video transcripts and visual content via AI.

Engagement signals like upvotes, views, and comment counts help us distinguish recommendations the community finds genuinely helpful from noise.

1. 1.AI reads every post and extracts specific place names, what category they are (restaurant, temple, park, etc.), and whether the traveler's experience was positive, negative, or neutral.
2. 2.Verified against Google Maps — each extracted place is matched to a real location with coordinates, ratings, and review counts. No made-up places make it through.
3. 3.Deduplicated automatically — different spellings and names for the same place are merged so nothing gets counted twice.

• •Real conversations, not marketing — our data comes from travelers sharing honest experiences, not paid placements or sponsored content.
• •Multiple sources — we cross-reference across communities and platforms. A place mentioned by many different people carries more weight.
• •Recency-weighted — recent mentions matter more than old ones. What was trending last year might not be relevant today.
• •Transparent scoring — the weights and criteria are published right here. No black box.