Featured on Appricio

If you are reading this, a place you run was chosen for Appricio. Nobody at your business was contacted first, nobody was invoiced, and nobody ever will be. This page explains what the accolade means and gives you the kit to display it.

Appricio makes its money from the people who use it: a free tier with fifty cities in full, and an optional subscription. Never from the places it recommends.

How a place gets chosen

Appricio is a travel guide that hands people the few places a local would actually choose, right now, with a reason attached. To do that it has to be willing to leave things out, including famous things.

• Machines find the candidates, they do not pick them. We sweep a city, then score every candidate on how well it fits a real moment: the hour, the weather, the walk, the season, and an editorial significance score that is not the same thing as a star rating.
• Star ratings and review counts do not decide anything. They are the reason most guides hand you the same forty places. A well reviewed ice cream counter does not outrank a basilica here.
• A human curation pass runs on top. Chains come out. Tourist traps come out. Venues that are really an event, an operator, or a category rather than a place come out.
• Every photo is machine verified before it ships, so the picture on your page is actually of your place.
• The words are written, then checked. An AI writes the first draft of why a place is worth going to. It never chooses or orders anything, and what it writes gets read before it ships.

There is no application. There is no form. The only way onto Appricio is to be the kind of place a local would send a friend to.

The badge kit

Yours to use, free, with no approval step and nothing to sign. Print it, post it, frame it, put it in your email footer, or ignore it entirely.

The kit holds both treatments of every piece, plus a one page printing guide. Pick whichever suits your window and your feed. You can mix them.

The QR code, and what it does

The decal and the certificate carry a QR. Scanning it opens your place inside Appricio, on the page a traveler standing on your street would see, with the line we wrote about why you are worth the walk. If the app is not installed, it opens the same page on the web.

If your kit came from us by email, the QR is already yours and points at your own place. If you downloaded the kit from this page, the QR opens Appricio itself, because a public download cannot know who is printing it. Write to us and we will send the version with your own code.

The QR carries a tag that tells us a scan came from a badge rather than from a share. That is the only thing we measure. There is no tracking pixel in the kit and nothing in it reports back about your customers.

Put it up and we return the favor

Display the badge or post it, tell us, and your place goes onto its city page here on appricio.com, in a strip of featured venues that links straight to you. Send a photo or a link to hello@appricio.com and a person will add it.

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