Some people know a place in a way a search result never will. They know the coffee shop worth crossing Tokyo for, the quiet beach to visit before lunch, and the family-run hotel you’ll still talk about years later.
In 2024, we built a small marketplace for that kind of knowledge. Ten operator-vetted creators joined, and travelers bought more than 500 of their guides. It showed us two things: people value recommendations from a named expert, and even a wonderful guide needs a way to keep up when a place changes.
So Travel Guides is now Catalogues. We’ve rebuilt the marketplace for production, and it relaunches alongside Atlas and Voyager in Q3 2026.
Why “catalogue”
The name matches the intent.
A guide can sound like something you read once. A catalogue is a collection someone chose with care: the restaurants, neighborhoods, and day-shaped itineraries they would share with a friend. Every recommendation has a clear source, so you always know whose point of view you’re bringing into your trip.
And because a catalogue is a collection, it can do things a document can’t. You can pull one entry into a trip. A publisher can update one entry without republishing everything. And software can read the collection and work with the expert’s picks.
What changed
Catalogues are versioned. Places change. Restaurants close, hours shift, and hidden favorites get discovered. When a publisher releases an update, your saved version stays as it was until you choose to move to the new one. No silent edits.
Catalogues come from named experts. The byline is part of the product. It gives every recommendation context and lets you choose the people whose taste you trust.
Catalogues turn into trips. Each recommendation is a structured entry you can bring into Voyager and arrange around your days. The distance between “we should go someday” and “we’re going in October” gets a little shorter.
Catalogues work with Atlas. Atlas can use the catalogues you own as source material, then filter those recommendations through your dates, budget, group, and needs. A great Tokyo catalogue can keep helping every time you return. Here’s a first look at Atlas if you’re curious.
If you bought a Travel Guide
Everything carried over. The guides you bought are catalogues now, with the same authors and content. They’ll pick up versioning from here, and there’s nothing you need to do.
If you know a place
The publisher side has been rebuilt, too, with tools for turning the knowledge you already have into something travelers can use and buy. If you know a place well and want to share it, we’d love to meet you.
Visit Catalogues, or start with your library. A good trip can begin with one recommendation from someone who really knows the place.