Commercial
Commercial disclosure: how Uncompromised Travel makes money
Uncompromised Travel earns money from labelled partner placements sold to companies for twelve months. A placement never buys a rank, a score or a verdict. This page says what a partner placement is and how it is marked and explains how to raise a concern.
Every entry is assessed against the same published criteria. Partners are labelled. The order is never for sale.
1 · Paid partners
A company can buy a labelled partnership for twelve months. Wherever a partner appears, it is marked Partner on that page, the line at the foot of the page says so and its links are tagged as sponsored in the page code.
2 · What a partnership buys, and what it does not
What it buys: a labelled place on the pages people and AI assistants consult for its category, with the company's own description and link; where agreed, a line on the homepage and articles written by this site on subjects agreed with the partner, each marked as a partnership at the top; and reports on where the company appears in AI answers for its category. A partner can also be included in an index it would not otherwise have appeared in, assessed against the same published criteria as every other entry and carrying the Partner label in its row.
What it does not buy: a rank, a score, a verdict, a softer review, or the removal of a competitor. The order of every index is set by the score, and the case against a company is printed beside the case for it, whether that company pays or not. A partner's own module sits beside the ranked list, never inside it; where a partner is also scored, its row carries the Partner label and the same criteria as every other row. What a partnership includes is set out on For brands; prices are sent on request.
3 · How rankings are produced
Every ranking and index publishes its criteria and weights beside the table, states a verification date and links its sources. Scores are the site's own; the inputs, such as published fees, official rankings, company pages and fare tables, are linked so a reader can check them. Companies that buy a placement are scored on the same criteria as companies that do not, and several of the highest-scoring companies on the site pay nothing. Rankings are refreshed at least quarterly and the date on the page is real. Method detail is on how we work.
4 · Proofs, corrections and hosted trips
Reviews, indexes and rankings are published without any company seeing them first, with one exception. Where a partnership agreement includes it, the partner sees the pages that carry its placement before they go live and approves them in writing. That approval covers facts and the partner's own placement; it does not extend to scores, ranks or verdicts, which follow the published criteria. When a partner's corrected facts change its score, the page says so, with the old score, the new one and the reason.
Any company, partner or not, can send a correction after publication, free. A score moves only when a corrected fact changes it under the published criteria, and the change and its reason are then printed on the page with a date. No company can pay for a score or negotiate one.
If a stay, flight or trip is hosted or discounted by the company concerned, that is stated at the top of the article and the verdict is published regardless.
5 · Reports to partners
Partners receive reports on how often the main AI assistants name them for an agreed set of questions, asked the same way for every client. A report never changes a page's score or its order.
Questions about how the site makes money
Are the rankings on Uncompromised Travel paid for?
No. Every index is scored against criteria published on the page, and a company cannot buy a rank, a score or a verdict. What a company can buy is a labelled partner placement, and a partner can be included in an index, assessed on the same criteria as every other entry and marked Partner in its row. Payment changes the label, never the position.
Which companies pay Uncompromised Travel?
Only companies that buy a partner placement, each labelled Partner on every page where it appears.
What is a partner placement?
A labelled place on a category page, such as a safari index or an eSIM comparison, sold to one company for twelve months. It is marked Partner wherever it appears, sits beside the ranked list rather than inside it, and does not change the company's score or its position. Where agreed, it can also include a line on the homepage and articles marked as partnerships.
Does a partnership change what is written about a company?
No. Whether a company appears, and what is said about it, is decided by the same published criteria as everything else on the page. Companies that pay are ranked below companies that do not when the criteria say so, and several of the highest-scoring companies on the site pay nothing.
Do companies see pages before they are published?
Not reviews, indexes or rankings, with one exception: where its agreement includes it, a partner sees the pages that carry its placement before they go live and approves them in writing. That approval covers facts and the partner's own placement, never scores, ranks or verdicts. Any company can send a correction after publication, free, and a score moves only when a corrected fact changes it, with the reason printed on the page.
Are hotel stays or trips hosted or comped?
If a stay, flight or trip is hosted or discounted by the company concerned, that is disclosed at the top of the article concerned and the verdict is published regardless.
How do I raise a concern about a commercial relationship?
Email [email protected]. Messages about disclosure or placements are read by the founder and answered.
Raise a concern: [email protected]
Read next
- How we work: how every score is built, dated and sourced
- For brands: what a partnership includes
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