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BestRoadTrip is the public research and guide site of Tourific, a travel app whose creators film the places they visit. As of October 2026 it draws on thousands of creator videos from 1,410 cities in 107 countries and territories, filmed by 99 creators. Every figure on this page can be quoted with a link, and press email goes straight to the founder.
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Company, product, pricing and creator pay in one place. Pricing and pay come from the published terms, not from marketing copy.
- Company
- Tourific (Tourific LLC)
- Headquarters
- Jersey City, New Jersey, United States
- Founder
- Piyush Bhattad, founder and CEO
- Platforms
- iPhone (App Store) and Android (Google Play); BestRoadTrip.com on the web
- App rating
- 5.0 out of 5 on the Apple App Store, from 31 ratings App Store Connect,
- Pricing
- Free to download. Tourific Pro: $6.99 a month or $49.99 a year, bought inside the Tourific app for iPhone and Android
- Products
- The Tourific app for iPhone and Android, and BestRoadTrip.com: road trip guides, the reel map, PinDrop and the research series
- Ask Tourific
- The travel concierge in the Tourific app, launched . New in the Tourific app on iPhone and Android.
- Creator pay
- $2 to $6 per 1,000 qualified views, about $5 on average, plus reaction bonuses. Paid through Stripe Connect; no follower minimum Tourific Creator Terms, sections 4.1 and 4.4
- Content Bounty
- A per-reel rate agreed with each creator on Upwork before they upload, paid through Upwork milestones. Bounty reels do not also earn per-view pay Creator Terms, sections 4.4.1 and 4.4.2
- Dataset
- Thousands of creator videos from 1,410 cities in 107 countries and territories, 99 creators Live index, October 2026
- Research
- 34 papers, the newest published October 22, 2026 bestroadtrip.com/research
- Launch dates
- : Tourific app on the App Store (first release)
- : PinDrop, the daily geography game
- : Ask Tourific, the travel concierge in the app
- Press contact
- Piyush Bhattad, piyush.bhattad@tourific.ai
Boilerplate
About Tourific
Free to use as written. The numbers are rounded down so they stay true between updates.
Tourific is a road trip and travel planning app for iPhone and Android built on short travel videos filmed by its creator community. Each video is tied to the place where it was filmed, and together they power the app's route planning, a public reel map and original travel research at BestRoadTrip.com, which draws on thousands of videos from 1,400+ cities in 100+ countries and territories. Creators earn $2 to $6 per 1,000 qualified views. Tourific was founded by Piyush Bhattad and is based in Jersey City, New Jersey.
Ask Tourific, the app's travel concierge, launched on September 29, 2026. It finds places near you, plans a day in any city or maps a road trip with its costs, working from creator videos and live place data. New in the Tourific app on iPhone and Android.
New · September 29, 2026
What is Ask Tourific?
Ask Tourific is the travel concierge inside the Tourific app, launched on September 29, 2026. Ask it for places open near you, a day in any city in order, a road trip with real routes or what the trip will cost, and it answers from creator videos, live place data and your taste.
New in the Tourific app on iPhone and Android.
- Places near you, or anywhere: Spots that are open now and rated well, and the places creators filmed nearby.
- A day in any city, in order: Real stops with creator picks, ratings and times, saved as a trip you can edit.
- Road trips with real routes: Route options with miles, driving hours and the creator videos along each one.
- Costs with the math shown: Fuel, tolls, food and lodging, with the prices and sources it used.
- Stays, tours, weather, events: Hotels and tours with live prices, the forecast, and dated events from real sources.
- The video you saw, the guide you read: Ask about a video you watched in the last day without naming the place, or ask a planning guide your questions.
Five questions, and what it answered
Asked: “road trip from San Francisco to Los Angeles, 3 days, I want the coast”
Answer: Three route options on a map. The Pacific Coast Classic is 446 miles with 9 hours of driving over 3 days, via Half Moon Bay, Monterey and Big Sur, with 14 creator videos along the route.
Asked: “Let's go with the first route. How much will gas cost and is 3 days enough?”
Answer: About $665: fuel $110 (a 25 mpg car at $6.19 a gallon, the California AAA average on 2026-09-22), no tolls, food $195, lodging $240 and activities $120. The drive splits into San Francisco to Santa Barbara (350 miles) and Santa Barbara to Los Angeles (94 miles).
Asked: “plan a day in Lisbon for me, food and viewpoints”
Answer: It checks what creators filmed in Lisbon, then orders the day: lunch at Time Out Market, the river at Praça do Comércio in the afternoon and sunset at Cais do Sodré, each a creator pick with its rating and time.
Asked: “Where is the waterfall from the reel I just watched?”
Answer: It looks at the reels you watched and names it: Boon Waterfall in Chyamche, Nepal, with the creator's tip to wear sturdy shoes and bring water and snacks, because facilities are limited.
Asked: “When do you need winter tires in Quebec?”
Answer: It answers from the Winter Driving Guide: from December 1 to March 15 for every vehicle registered in Quebec, rentals included. Out-of-province vehicles are exempt, a rental car in Montreal is not, and the fine is $200 to $300.
Screens and answers from the launched app on September 29, 2026, on a test account with the location set to SoHo, New York. Download the screens under brand assets.
Citations
How to cite BestRoadTrip
Credit “BestRoadTrip by Tourific”, link the page the figure comes from and give the date the figure describes. Live totals carry the month they were read; every research paper names its own snapshot.
A live total, in a sentence
BestRoadTrip, the guide site of the travel app Tourific, draws on thousands of creator videos filmed in 1,410 cities across 107 countries and territories (October 2026). https://bestroadtrip.com/press
The totals are read from the live index each day. Quote them with the month.
A research finding (APA)
Bhattad, P. (2026, October 22). What 95 travel creators filmed: 2,891 videos from 104 countries and territories, counted in October 2026 (Research note TR-2026-10-22-033). BestRoadTrip Research, Tourific. https://bestroadtrip.com/research/what-95-travel-creators-filmed#finding-1
Every paper ends with its own citation, a BibTeX entry and a link for each finding. All papers
The open dataset (APA, data set)
Tourific. (n.d.). Road trip stops from creator videos [Data set]. BestRoadTrip. Retrieved October 29, 2026, from https://bestroadtrip.com/data
Licensed CC BY 4.0. The file is regenerated daily, so keep the retrieval date. The dataset
Names: BestRoadTrip (one word) is the site, Tourific is the app and the company (legal name Tourific LLC), and Piyush Bhattad is the founder. Ask Tourific is the concierge inside the Tourific app.
Story angles
Six angles with the data behind them
Each one links to the source and names the snapshot its numbers describe. Custom cuts of the data are available on request.
What a road trip costs in 2026: gas, EV or RV
Across 64 hand-verified city pairs in 24 countries, EVs averaged $33 in fuel per trip against $48 for a gas car, 32% cheaper, and RVs averaged $125. The EV share of the gas cost stayed between 67% and 70% in every country measured.
Where creators film, and where they skip
Thailand's 93 creator reels span 47 cities; the United States' 80 reels span 26. In the September 2026 snapshot, Budapest holds 97.4% of Hungary's creator video while Jaipur holds 15% of India's, and in 13 of 28 countries the most-filmed place is not the capital.
The road trips with video at both ends
Bangkok to Pattaya is the best-documented drivable road trip: 53 and 34 creator videos, 111 km apart.
A creator program that pays per view, with no follower minimum
Tourific pays creators $2 to $6 per 1,000 qualified views, about $5 on average, plus reaction bonuses, through Stripe Connect. A separate Content Bounty pays per accepted reel of a new place, at a rate agreed with each creator on Upwork before they upload. The founder can walk through how the program works and why it is built around places rather than audiences.
PinDrop: a daily geography game played on creator footage
Players watch a 30-second creator reel and have six guesses to place where it was filmed. A new round starts every day at midnight UTC, and every clip is real footage from a creator who was there, not Street View.
What creators say on camera
Voice tracks from 1,068 reels yielded 4,427 distinct practical tips, 1,247 local insights, 855 specific recommendations and 37 recurring warnings. “Bring water and sun protection” is the most-narrated tip, said by 51 creators in more than 40 countries.
Research
Findings you can cite
One headline finding from each paper, with the snapshot it describes. Older papers describe a smaller corpus than today's; quote the date with the number.
| Paper | Finding | Data as of |
|---|---|---|
| Road trips with video at both ends Published September 27, 2026 | Bangkok to Pattaya, Budapest to Vienna and Seoul to Busan lead 73 drivable city pairs ranked by creator video at both ends; London to Paris has more but needs a Channel crossing. | September 27, 2026 (3,131-video snapshot) |
| Beyond the big city Published September 27, 2026 | Budapest holds 97.4% of Hungary's creator video; Jaipur holds 15% of India's. In 13 of 28 countries the most-filmed place is not the capital. | September 27, 2026 (3,131-video snapshot) |
| Gas vs EV vs RV Published April 22, 2026 | EVs averaged $33 in fuel per trip against $48 for a gas car, 32% cheaper across 64 verified pairs. | April 2026 (64 verified city pairs) |
| Thailand Geography Audit Published May 3, 2026 | Thailand's 93 creator reels span 47 cities; the United States' 80 reels span 26. | Q1 2026 (1,332-video snapshot) |
| Global creator distribution Q1 2026 Published March 27, 2026 | Asia holds 32.9% of creator-filmed travel content (438 of 1,332 videos), about 13 points ahead of Europe at 20.2%. | Q1 2026 (1,332-video snapshot) |
| Mood Map Q2 2026 Published May 2, 2026 | 39% of France reels carry the romantic tag, against 18% of Italy reels. | Q1 2026 (1,330-video snapshot) |
| 60-Minute Truth Q2 2026 Published May 2, 2026 | The global median suggested duration is 90 minutes. | Q1 2026 (1,330-video snapshot) |
| What creators actually say Published April 22, 2026 | "Bring water and sun protection" is the most-narrated tip in the corpus, said by 51 creators in 40+ countries. | April 22, 2026 (1,068 reels with spoken audio) |
Press releases
Released so far
Self-distributed summaries of the research, for journalists who want a one-page version.
Founder
Available for quotes and interviews
Piyush Bhattad is the founder and CEO of Tourific, the travel app whose creators film the videos behind BestRoadTrip. He compiles the research series published at bestroadtrip.com/research.
- Talks about
- Creator economy in travel, road trip costs, EV and RV travel, travel technology, first-party video against AI-generated content
- Formats
- Quotes, interviews by video, phone or email, founder profiles, panels
Brand assets
Logo, headshot and app screens
Download the originals. Write the names as BestRoadTrip (one word) and Tourific. For other formats, email the founder.
App iconPNG, 512 × 512Download- Founder headshotPNG, 289 × 285Download
- App screen: route mapPNG, 1206 × 2622Download
- App screen: finished tripPNG, 1206 × 2622Download
Ask Tourific screens
WebP, 960 × 2081, from the launched app on September 29, 2026. New in the Tourific app on iPhone and Android.
- HomeDownload the Home screen
- Road trip answerDownload the Road trip answer screen
- Trip costDownload the Trip cost screen
- Planning LisbonDownload the Planning Lisbon screen
- A day in LisbonDownload the A day in Lisbon screen
- Create menuDownload the Create menu screen
Linkable
Live pages you can link to
For journalists
Quick answers
Can I quote your data in my article?
Yes. Credit “BestRoadTrip by Tourific” and link to the research paper the figure comes from. Each paper names the snapshot its numbers describe, so quote the date with the number.
Can I get the underlying data?
Yes. Email piyush.bhattad@tourific.ai with the cut you need, for example by country, city or activity.
Is any of this AI-generated?
The videos are not. Every one was filmed and uploaded by a creator through the Tourific app, with no stock footage and no scraped clips. Machines help with the text layer: voice tracks are transcribed with Whisper and tips are sorted by a GPT categorisation step, and the papers that use transcripts say so in their method notes.
Is Tourific a real product?
Yes. Tourific is on the App Store and Google Play, free to download, with Tourific Pro at $6.99 a month or $49.99 a year. BestRoadTrip.com is its public site; the videos, maps and research here come from the same creator uploads the app uses.
How are creators paid?
Per qualified view: $2 to $6 per 1,000 qualified views, about $5 on average, plus reaction bonuses, paid through Stripe Connect once earnings pass $25. Content Bounty reels are paid per accepted reel through Upwork instead. More on the About page.
Which phones have Ask Tourific?
New in the Tourific app on iPhone and Android. It launched on September 29, 2026, and the screens and answers on this page come from the launched app. What it does.
Where are the brand assets?
In the brand assets section above: the app icon, the founder headshot, two app screens and six Ask Tourific screens, ready to download. For anything else, email the founder.
Direct line
Email the founder. Skip the contact form.
No PR agency in between: press email goes to Piyush, who answers it himself.