All about Explorissima

Explorissima is a French platform (a website to begin with, soon also available as a mobile app) for planning your weekends and holidays through online guides and a geolocated search engine: accommodation, activities, events, markets and local producers. You add your selections to a shareable travel journal, enriched with local stories, with directions to every activity.

Search for a destination, a town or a specific idea (“where to sleep”, “hiking”, “gastronomy”): the engine shows everything there is to do within a radius of 5 to 50 km: unmissable places, villages, cultural activities, nature outings, crafts and gastronomy. The system looks beyond administrative borders to suggest gems from neighbouring departments and regions.

Once you have signed up for free, select any destination or experience and click the heart icon. A second click on the same icon removes it from your favourites.

It takes a few seconds: create a free account, then add whatever catches your eye from any guide or search result. The addresses are gathered in your journal, with a clear view of your itinerary, and can be shared with the people you love through a single link. You can create as many travel journals as you wish, free of charge.

Explorissima draws on tourism data that has already been qualified, entered and verified by the tourist offices through DATAtourisme, then enriched by the Explorissima team, local experts and travellers. The engine relies on structured data rather than generative artificial intelligence: a deliberate choice of digital sobriety. And unlike generative AI, every Explorissima search result can be saved to your travel journal in one click.

For visitors, browsing the guides and creating a travel journal are free. Premium features will be offered at a later stage. For professionals, the model is freemium: a free listing through the tourist office, or paid offers to increase visibility.

The guides draw on DATAtourisme, the French state’s official open-data database, which gathers the information reported by tourist offices across the country. This data is enriched and completed, region by region, by the Explorissima team: local experts and travellers with a passion for their region.

Yes, through two routes. The base data comes from DATAtourisme and is supplied by your tourist office: for a correction, reporting it to the tourist office is the free route. For faster enrichment (photos, a personalised description, special offers), that is part of the Premium tourism visibility offer.

Send a request through our contact page or book an appointment with our team. Explorissima will assess the most suitable kind of listing, then add your establishment to the platform with geolocation and tourism content curated by our experts.

There are four: Premium tourism visibility (a geolocated spotlight on your establishment for travellers), the Tailor-made travel guide (a geolocated, multilingual digital guide with public or private access), the Embedded tourism web page (a page styled to your brand, embedded in your site via WordPress plug-in or iframe) and the Digital welcome booklet (replacing the paper booklet with a digital guide accessed by QR code). These offers can be combined.

Prices vary with the type of service, the size of your establishment and the level of personalisation you are after. Premium tourism visibility costs €88 excl. VAT per year, or €8 excl. VAT per month on a monthly subscription; the tailor-made guide starts from €1,500 excl. VAT, on quotation. Every offer comes with a quote tailored to your situation.

You can get a demonstration of Explorissima by booking an appointment directly from our contact page. A tourism expert walks you through the platform, discusses your specific needs and suggests a solution that fits.