How we choose

How a place gets on a list

Places are chosen from a fixed set of destinations kept on this site, each with the months that actually suit it. A guide about September can only draw on places whose record says September works. Nothing is added to a list because a brand asked, paid, or sent us anything.

How the writing is produced

We will be straight about this, because plenty of sites are not. The prose on this site is drafted with the help of an AI language model, working from the facts held in our own records rather than writing from memory. It is then put through a fixed set of rules before it can be published.

• The model is given the real facts for each place and told not to invent any others.
• It cannot choose the destinations. That list comes from our records first.
• A list of tired phrases is checked automatically. If they appear, the text is rewritten. If they survive a second attempt, the page is held back instead of published.
• Every page must say something honest about the downside of a place. A guide with no drawbacks in it is an advert.

This does not make the writing perfect and we are not claiming it does. It makes it accurate about the things that can be checked, and it makes the process the same every time. Where you find a mistake, tell us and it gets fixed at the record, which corrects it on every page that uses it.

What we will not do

• Sell a position in a ranking, or accept payment to describe a place more warmly.
• Publish a paid article dressed up as an ordinary guide.
• Remove an honest criticism because a business asked us to.
• Copy another site's writing, or reproduce encyclopedia text as our own.

Keeping pages current

Travel facts go stale. Prices rise, opening hours change, trails close, and a place that was quiet in March becomes busy in March. Each page carries the date it was last updated at the top. If a page looks old to you, treat it as old, and check the official source before you rely on it.

Corrections

Send corrections to hello@toptenwonders.com. If you are correcting a fact, a link to something official helps us act on it quickly. We do not charge for corrections and we do not require anyone to ask through a PR agency.