Frequently Asked Questions

Tripsty is a free tool for discovering tourism in France. It aggregates open data to help you plan your trips with an interactive map, regional travel guides, and dedicated pages for French wines and cheeses.

Our data comes from official sources: DATAtourisme for tourist attractions, INAO for wine and cheese appellations, and Wikipedia for supplementary information. We update our data regularly, but we recommend checking opening hours and prices directly with official websites.

The map displays points of interest around the visible area. You can filter by category, search for a place, create a custom itinerary and save your favorites. The Vineyards and AOC Cheeses layers show appellation zones on the map.

Yes, use the itinerary button on the map to add stops, reorder your route, calculate distances and export your itinerary as a PDF or shareable link.

Yes, the site is fully available in both French and English. Use the language selector in the navigation bar to switch.

The 254 wine appellations come from the INAO database — the official body for designations of origin in France. The 790 cheeses combine official AOP/IGP designations with traditional regional cheeses sourced from Wikipedia.

No. Tripsty does not collect any personal data. Your favorites, itineraries and preferences are stored only in your browser via local storage. No user account is required.

Yes, reach out to us via our Contact page. We welcome all suggestions and corrections.

Yes, the site is fully responsive and optimized for use on smartphones and tablets. The map and all features are accessible on mobile devices.

The base maps come from OpenStreetMap, CyclOSM for the cycling view, and the IGN Geoplatform for the cadastre layer. The vineyard layers use WMTS parcel data from the Geoplatform.

Every season has its strengths. Spring (April-June) is ideal for gardens, emerging lavender and mild temperatures. Summer (July-August) brings sun and beaches but also crowds and high coastal prices; the interior (Massif Central, Alsace, Alps) remains quieter. Autumn (September-October) is perfect for harvests in Burgundy and Bordeaux, the forests of the Vosges or Morvan, and the gentle Provençal light. Winter (December-March) suits alpine ski resorts, Alsace Christmas markets and cultural city breaks in Paris, Lyon or Strasbourg.

A 7-day road trip allows you to explore one or two neighbouring regions in depth without exhaustion. A few tested examples: Provence (Avignon, Luberon, Verdon, Camargue), South-West (Bordeaux, Dordogne, Périgord, Cahors), Alsace and Vosges (Strasbourg, Wine Route, Colmar, Vosges ridges), Northern Brittany (Saint-Malo, Pink Granite Coast, Quimper, Quiberon). Plan no more than 2 to 3 stops per day, one overnight per main base to avoid repeated packing, and keep a spare day for the unexpected or local discoveries.

All of France is a gastronomic land, but some regions concentrate exceptional heritage. Burgundy for its wines, beef, Époisses cheese and mustard; Alsace for choucroute, Munster, Riesling and Christmas markets; Provence for olive oil, aïoli, rosé and herbs; South-West for foie gras, duck, cassoulet, Madiran and Jurançon; Normandy for raw-milk cheeses, cider, Calvados and seafood; Lyon and its bouchons for traditional Lyonnais cuisine.

Yes, every itinerary created on Tripsty has a shareable link encoding your stops, each day's dates and the chosen transport mode. Click the share icon from the map or Road Trip page: you can copy the link, send it by message or share on social networks. Your friends will see exactly the same itinerary with nothing to install.

Hours and prices come from DATAtourisme and the tourism offices, which are responsible for keeping them updated. Some information may have changed since our last sync. We always recommend checking the official website of the venue (museum, restaurant, accommodation) before your visit, particularly off-season or during school holidays.

The planner (Plan) suggests a collection tailored to your preferences: region, time available, category (city break, nature, food, family...) and transport (car, bike, walking). Our algorithm scans the 183 collections and scores each itinerary to fit your profile. The top collection opens directly with all stops ready to load on the map.

France offers several iconic wine routes. The Alsace Wine Route winds 170 km from Marlenheim to Thann through flowered villages and hillside vineyards. The Route des Grands Crus in Burgundy links Dijon to Santenay, crossing the greatest terroirs (Gevrey-Chambertin, Vougeot, Puligny-Montrachet). The Bordeaux vineyard allows you to loop Médoc, Saint-Émilion and Sauternes in a few days. The Rhône Valley, from north (Condrieu, Hermitage) to south (Châteauneuf-du-Pape, Gigondas), offers an exceptional diversity of terroirs and landscapes.

France has 176 villages labelled "Plus Beaux Villages de France". Concentrated mostly in the South-West (Dordogne, Lot, Aveyron), Provence (Gordes, Les Baux, Roussillon) and Alsace (Eguisheim, Riquewihr), they offer preserved medieval and Renaissance architecture. Several of our collections link 5 to 8 villages in a themed road trip, notably in Dordogne-Périgord, Luberon or around Conques-Salers-Saint-Cirq-Lapopie.

Yes. Select the "campervan" transport mode when creating your itinerary: the map will automatically show campervan parking (aires) near your stops (over 10,000 spots referenced from OpenStreetMap). Distances and durations are also recalculated with a typical campervan consumption (12 L/100 km) for a more realistic budget estimate.

Tripsty is an independent project maintained by an enthusiast. The service stays free thanks to low-cost hosting, the open APIs we use (OpenStreetMap, DATAtourisme, Open-Meteo, Valhalla) and a future model mixing discreet advertising and affinity tourism partnerships. No paid subscription is planned in the short term for current features.