Understanding place categories
Trovvana uses color-coded categories to organize your places: Home, Accommodation, Food & Drink, Activity, Transport, and Other.
Last updated: 12 April 2026
Every place you add to a Trovvana trip is assigned a category. Categories serve two purposes: they help you organize your itinerary at a glance, and they control how places appear on the map with color-coded markers and route lines. Choosing the right category for each place makes your trip plan easier to read and helps Trovvana generate more useful route visualizations.
The six place categories
Trovvana offers six categories, each with a distinct color:
Home (teal)
Your home base or starting point for the trip. This is where your journey begins and ends. Setting a place as Home tells Trovvana where to draw return-to-base route legs if you enable that option. Most trips will have one Home place, typically your departure city or house.
Accommodation (blue)
Hotels, Airbnbs, hostels, campgrounds, or any place you are staying overnight. Accommodation places are important for route planning because Trovvana uses them as the start and end points for each day. If you are staying at multiple hotels across different legs of your trip, adding each one as an Accommodation place helps Trovvana draw accurate inter-day transfer routes.
Food & Drink (orange)
Restaurants, cafes, bars, bakeries, street food stalls, and anywhere you plan to eat or drink. Family trips often revolve around meal stops, so having these clearly marked in orange on the map makes it easy to see whether you have lunch and dinner covered for each day.
Activity (purple)
Museums, theme parks, beaches, hiking trails, tours, landmarks, and any experience or attraction you plan to visit. Activity places are typically the core of your itinerary — the things you are traveling to see and do. Purple markers stand out clearly on the map so you can quickly identify the highlights of each day.
Transport (green)
Airports, train stations, bus stops, ferry terminals, car rental offices, and any place related to getting around. Marking transport hubs with their own category keeps them visually distinct from the places you are actually visiting, so your map does not get cluttered with logistics mixed in among attractions.
Other (gray)
Anything that does not fit neatly into the other categories. Pharmacies, supermarkets, laundromats, or any miscellaneous stop. Gray markers keep these practical stops visible on the map without drawing too much attention away from the main highlights of your trip.
How categories affect map markers
Each category has its own marker color on the interactive map. When you look at your trip map, you can immediately tell what type of place each pin represents based on its color. This is especially useful for trips with many places — instead of reading every label, you can scan the colors to find what you need.
For example, if you are looking for somewhere to eat near an attraction, you can visually scan for orange markers near purple ones.
How categories affect route lines
Trovvana uses categories to determine how route lines are drawn between places:
- Intra-day routes connect places sequentially within a day based on visit order, regardless of category.
- Inter-day transfers are drawn from the last Accommodation or last place of the day to the first place of the next day.
- Return-to-base legs connect back to your Home or Accommodation place at the end of each day.
Getting your Accommodation and Home categories right ensures that route lines accurately reflect your actual travel pattern rather than drawing misleading connections.
Changing a place’s category
You can change a place’s category at any time by clicking on the place in the sidebar or on its map marker and selecting a different category from the dropdown. The map marker color and any associated route lines will update immediately.
When in doubt, start with the category that best describes the primary purpose of the place. You can always recategorize later as your trip plan evolves.