About About.Travel

About.Travel publishes practical travel guides: where to stay, what things actually cost, and how to stay connected. The test for every page is whether it changes a decision. If a paragraph would read the same about anywhere else, it does not belong here.

We cover one place properly before starting the next. That is why the site is small: rather than a thin page for every country, there is a deep cluster for a few. A destination gets a page when there is something specific to say about it, and the number of pages is an output of how much we actually know rather than a target we are filling.

Facts come from primary sources. Anything procedural - visas, entry rules, transit passes - is checked against the operator or the government page that governs it. Anything numeric carries the date it was checked, because a price without a date is not information. Geographic data comes from GeoNames and OpenStreetMap, photographs from Wikimedia Commons under their individual Creative Commons licences, and time zone data from the IANA database.

We do not accept payment for a placement, a ranking or a favourable review. Where a link earns a commission, the page carrying it says so. We do not claim to have tested something we have not: plan details and prices that come from a provider rather than from our own checking are labelled as such. And we do not publish a page to fill a gap in a keyword list.

If something here is wrong, tell us and we will fix it and say that we did. Email mail@about.travel with the page and what is inaccurate. Corrections to a specific fact are made on the page, and the update date on the page changes with them.