In this week's hack we tried to find out how romantic a destination is for travelers. We compiled a list of destinations that are mentioned in online magazine top 10s as most romantic. Than we looked what data we had available in our database of these cities had a positive correlation with these cities. The assumption is that this data could be used to predict how romantic a given city is.
The mechanism was quite simple but proved very effective. Move the 'romantic' slide on
www.triposo.com to the right and you get a top 5 of romantic places:
 | Venice , Italy (Venezia in Italian) is still one of the most interesting and lovely places in the world. This sanctuary on a la... |
 | Kovalam is a beautiful beach in Kerala, India. Thirty years ago, Kovalam was a hippy idyll: a picture perfect tropical beach; a... |
 | Santorini is a volcanic island in the Cyclades group of the Greek islands. It is located between Ios and Anafi islands. It is famo... |
 | Florence (Italian: Firenze) is the capital of the region of Tuscany in Italy, with a population of some 366488. The city is consi... |
 | Manali is a city in the Kullu Valley. Manali, at the northern end of the Kullu Valley in Himachal Pradesh, is a hill station si... |
It seems our mechanism has a bias towards the Indian subcontinent, or rather, Indians seem to like to describe their hill stations and beaches as romantic, a preference that finds its way into our database. I'm sure we can filter it out, but if the hack as a whole works well, who's to say that these Indian places aren't among the most romantic on the planet?
You can play with the slides and move the map around to get your own personal top 5 of romantic places. My list would be:
Amalfi,
Positano,
Sorrento,
Ravello and
Naples.
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