1 · Verified, not guessed
Every fact on every page traces to a real source. Weather data comes from leading meteorological providers, exchange rates from established currency feeds, place information from open geographic databases. The list of sources we accept is fixed; content citing anything outside that list is rejected before it ever reaches review.
Every cited source URL is checked to be reachable before a page goes live. A source that genuinely cannot be reached — the host is down, the domain has failed, the connection times out — blocks the page from publishing. A source that is alive but declines an automated probe does not block the page: the source is real and the information was verified when the page was written. We keep links current as the underlying sites reorganise.
Every numeric judgment a page makes — "Bangkok scores 7.5 out of 10 for solo safety" — comes from a published evaluation standard whose scoring (what does a 7.5 mean?) and underlying sources are openly documented. A judgment without that anchor cannot be published.
2 · Every page is reviewed and attributed
Every published page carries a visible attribution recording who reviewed it and when. The attribution is structural, not decorative: a page without an attributed reviewer cannot go live.
When a human reviews, their name appears on the page. When automated review applies — the page passed every rule in our published evaluation standards — the attribution says so directly and links to the record of which standards were checked. There is no third option: we do not ship pages whose review history is missing or obscured.
A note on pages from our earlier standards
Some pages on the site predate the attribution standards above. Those pages carry a visible note that reads "Reviewed under our earlier standards" and are scheduled to be reviewed against the rules above. The note exists so the pages stay public and useful during that interval.
If you find a factual error on one of those pages, send a correction and the page jumps the queue.
3 · Corrections welcome
Travel changes. Restaurants close, ferries reroute, visa policies shift, neighborhoods earn or lose their reputations. When a page is wrong, our job is to fix it — promptly, transparently, and with the updated review date visible on the page so a reader can see how recently the claim was checked.
Send corrections to [email protected]. Acknowledged within two business days; a corrected page is reviewed and republished with an updated review date visible in the attribution line.
4 · Rankings are never sold
Rankings and recommendations are never sold. TTDI earns through affiliate links on picks it chose independently; no venue, brand, or partner can pay for placement, inclusion, or a better position. This is not a promise of good intentions — it is a property of how the pipeline is built.
The candidate scoring and the diversity selection that produce every ranked list read their inputs from fixed data contracts — structural completeness, geographic centrality, cuisine and brand diversity. None of those inputs carries an affiliate flag, a partner identity, or a commission rate. The ranking code is structurally unaware that an affiliate program exists.
Affiliate links are attached after the ranked list is final, at the moment a page is persisted, and are keyed to the picks the editorial step already chose. Because ranking is locked before any link is built, a partner cannot buy a position — there is no point in the pipeline where money could change the order. This independence is enforced by a test that fails if a paid-placement signal is ever added to a ranking input.