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What changed on Voykit

12 updates, newest first. Each one summarises real changes to the site.

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Updates

12

  1. · Content

    Thousands more guide pages, marked as drafts

    Pages written with a low-cost model pipeline from Voykit data. They carry no verified date until a person checks them.

    • 3,339 stage-B pages: cities, regions, parks and travel topics.
    • Article pages under /<country>/dishes/<dish> and the shared article route.
    • 1,570 pages in the final round, then 4,080 more across stages H and L.
    • Routes and compare pages fall back to generated article pages.

  2. · New

    Helpers on country, city and place pages

    Guide pages now carry the reader tools that were built separately: feedback, follow, personal entry notes, page questions and reminders.

    • A "Was this helpful?" block on city, country, region, place, eat and sleep pages.
    • Follow buttons for travel advisories on country, city and basic city pages.
    • Entry requirements for your passport on country and city pages, and the nearest guide city in the home hero.
    • Ask this page on city, basic city and country pages.
    • Push reminders on departure, book-ahead and the planner day view.

  3. · Tools

    Ask Voykit and Check my itinerary

    Two AI-assisted features that answer from Voykit's own guides.

    • Ask Voykit gives short answers with citations to the guides, with a per-reader daily cap.
    • Check my itinerary reads a pasted plan and checks it against Voykit data.

  4. · Improved

    Phone-first layout across the site

    Pages lead with the decision, and long pages fold into chapters on phones.

    • Home: search first, four chips and continents up.
    • City, country, region, route, dive and excursion pages: decision on top, chapters folded.
    • One Preferences menu, a three-zone Destinations menu, skip links and one search with clearer labels.
    • Bigger tap targets for links and chips.

  5. · Tools

    Tools for delays, borders and things going wrong

    A batch of sourced tools for the parts of a trip that go off plan.

    • Flight compensation, lost baggage and fast lanes.
    • Visa guide and prohibited items.
    • Services near me and sick abroad.
    • Four-government advisory compare and a strikes calendar.
    • Document validity, self-transfer risk and ATM / DCC fee checks.
    • Insurance claim and travel disputes kits.
    • Solo and night-safety mode and a safe check-in timer.

  6. · Tools

    Year heatmap, weather window, diet finder and morning brief

    Planning tools built on the month, weather and diet data already in the guides.

    • Year heatmap: a 12-month grid with a panel per month; unknown cells stay marked unknown.
    • Weather window: a day-by-day green / amber / red strip per activity.
    • Diet finder: what is listed versus what to ask, with a standard allergy caution.
    • Morning brief: a daily card built from your trip, closures, holidays, strikes and leave time.

  7. · Improved

    Both unit systems and a stronger planner

    Measurements show in both systems with your own first, and the trip planner gained what-if tools.

    • Every measurement appears in metric and imperial; Auto picks yours from passport, home, IP, currency, then language.
    • Shift-dates what-if, best city order, closures scan and a subscribable ICS feed for trips.
    • Trip planner 2 at /trips/plus2.

  8. · New

    Themes, topics, treks, parks and dives

    A broad release of new page families and tools.

    • Colour themes, a new header, footer and navigation, 38 new tools and month pages.
    • Travel topics, treks, national parks and dive areas, plus metro, audio walks, city pass and rail pass tools.
    • First-time and traveller-type city guides, like-a-local days, printable city guides and a planning board.
    • Practical city, eat, things-to-do and street pages.

  9. · Content

    Guides reach every continent

    Africa, the Americas, Europe and Oceania added at country depth, with Vietnam covered city by city.

    • Africa: six subregions and 49 countries.
    • Americas: four subregions and 49 countries and territories.
    • Europe and Oceania: continent pages, subregions and every country.
    • Vietnam: four regions, Ho Chi Minh City, Da Nang, Hoi An and Hue as full guides.
    • Full-depth guides for 203 more non-Vietnam cities.

  10. · Content

    Asia coverage and continent pages

    Asia filled in from Southeast and East Asia to Central Asia and South Asia, with new continent, subregion and region templates.

    • Southeast and East Asia, Middle East, Central Asia and Caucasus, South Asia countries.
    • Continent, subregion and region templates with a choose block, country explorer and computed seasons.
    • Photo heroes and collage, sticky save bar and line-art cards.

  11. · New

    Voykit Travel OS: first release

    The first pages: Kyoto, then Osaka, Tokyo and Hanoi, with hubs for Japan, Vietnam and Asia.

    • Kyoto launch set of 27 pages and an ebook export.
    • Osaka, Tokyo and Hanoi lines; Japan, Vietnam and Asia hubs.