How we make money

Where the money comes from.

Affiliate commissions today, display advertising later. Both are set out here so the incentives can be judged.

Affiliate links

Some links to hotels, tours and travel services are affiliate links: a booking made through one pays this site a commission, at no extra cost to the person booking. A guide that has any says so at its top, before the first one, and again in the booking links at its end — not only in a footer, and not in a tooltip that a phone cannot show. The hotel and tour boxes, and the booking links in the menu, say so themselves, beside their links.

When a link is followed, the destination site may set its own cookie to attribute the booking. That happens on their site under their policy; the privacy page covers what happens on this one.

Display advertising

There is none yet. When there is, advertisements will sit between the sections of a guide — never inside a paragraph, never as a pop-up or a page that has to be dismissed, and never as video that plays by itself.

What is not for sale

An email address given to this site with a comment is not sold or shared. The rest of the rules are in the editorial standards.