How We Research

How Dow We Research and prepare our content at TripWays

Our attraction pages (for example, the Giza Necropolis or Karnak) combine two kinds of information: numbers from the TripWays catalog, and facts about the place itself. This page explains where each comes from, how we check it, and how to tell us about a mistake.

Numbers from our catalog

Tour counts, operator counts, prices, tour lengths and free-cancellation shares are calculated from the tours bookable on TripWays at the moment the page loads. They are never typed by hand or by an AI model, and the date next to them is the date they were calculated. Prices are per person in US dollars, as shown on each tour page.

Facts about the place

Facts such as history, location, ticket prices, opening hours and rules come from pages we fetch and read: the attraction’s official website, government heritage and tourism sites, UNESCO, Wikidata, Wikipedia, Wikivoyage, OpenStreetMap, and established travel publishers. Every fact on the page keeps a short quote from the page it came from, and a numbered note links to that source.

  • Software checks that each quote really appears on the fetched page, and that every number in a fact appears in its quote. Facts that fail are not used.
  • Ticket prices, opening hours, closures and rules must come from an official source or a page dated within the last 12 months.
  • When two sources disagree, a person decides which one is right before the page is published.
  • Tour-operator and blog pages can confirm a fact but are never its only source.
  • We do not use booking sites that sell tours, review sites such as TripAdvisor, or social media as sources.

Where AI is used

Automated tools search for sources, pull the relevant statements out of them, and draft the page from the checked facts only. Some pages show an illustration made with AI; it is always labeled “AI illustration”. Other photos come from our licensed source, the tour operators on TripWays or from Wikimedia Commons, with the photographer and license shown.

Who checks the page

Nothing is published automatically. The TripWays Editorial team reviews each page before it goes live: we read the facts and their quotes, spot-check sources, settle any disagreements, and reject anything we cannot confirm. The date at the bottom of each page is the date of that review.

Keeping it current

Catalog numbers are updated on every page view. Ticket prices and opening hours are checked again against their sources at least every few months; a page will not stay published with a ticket or hours fact that has not been checked in more than 120 days.

Report a mistake

If something on one of our pages is wrong or out of date, please write to [email protected] with the page address and what you found. We check every report. If you believe there is a copyright violation, please refer to https://tripways.com/copyright-complaints