About vTourist

vTourist is the continuation of a long-running traveller-mapped gazetteer: places described by people who went, organised geographically rather than by search demand.

Coverage is broad by design - the gazetteer’s value is in reaching places nothing else covers - and depth is added where a place is being actively worked on. Pages say which of the two they are, so a stub is never mistaken for a finished guide.

Facts come from primary sources. Entry rules, currency and practical basics are checked against the governing authority and stated as of a date. 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 And we do not publish a page to fill a gap in a keyword list.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 [email protected] 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.