Roamio doesn't publish top-10 lists. We don't rank destinations, we don't do "best-of" countdowns, and we don't assign scores to places where people actually live. This is a deliberate editorial choice, not an oversight, and we owe our readers an explanation.
Ranked lists are optimised for search engines, not for travellers. They flatten everything they touch. They pit Kyoto against Marrakech as if those were comparable products rather than cities with their own unrelated claims on your attention. They confuse "popular" with "good" and "photographed" with "worth visiting." And they turn travel into a checklist, which is the fastest way we know to ruin it.
What we do instead
We publish one destination guide at a time, written by one person who has been to the place recently, and we try to tell you something true about it. We publish travel stories — field notes, essays, arguments — that we think will make your next trip better even if you never visit the place the story is about. We take photographs seriously, credit every photographer, and we never rank anything. That's the whole policy. There isn't a lot more to it.
