Our Methodology

Tripunto is an independent travel content platform, not a travel agency — we don't sell holidays or take bookings directly. This page exists to answer a simple question honestly: when Tripunto tells you a hotel is a “Best Value” pick, or that a destination is or isn't right for you, how did we actually arrive at that?

The short version: every classification you see on the site maps to a real, specific decision described below — nothing is generated automatically from a formula we can't explain, and nothing is for sale.

We add a destination when it offers a genuinely distinct travel experience — not to increase the number of pages on the site. Antalya's districts (Belek, Lara, Side, Kemer, Alanya, Konyaaltı) are each covered separately because they actually differ in character, price point and what they suit; we don't split a destination into sub-pages just to create more URLs.

We also don't require every part of a destination to be complete before we publish any of it. Guides, practical trip-planning content and destination pages can go live as soon as they're genuinely useful and fact-checked. Hotel listings are a separate step — we only add a hotel once we have a real, verified data source for it, and we'd rather leave a destination without hotel listings than publish invented or estimated ones. That's why some destinations on Tripunto currently have full guide coverage but no hotels yet.

Pages marked Tripunto Verified show the date their core facts were last checked against primary sources, and we recheck periodically rather than treating verification as permanent.

Every hotel we list is sorted into exactly one of three segments, based on comparing it against its peers in the same district — not on commission rates:

The full rubric — what we weigh, how we handle hotels we haven't personally verified — is on our How We Review Hotels page.

Beyond the three segments, a hotel can carry any number of tags — golf, private beach, family friendly, adults-only area, and so on — from one fixed, site-wide list (currently 13 tags). Tags are assigned editorially, one at a time, and only when genuinely true of that specific property. A tag is never added to make a hotel appear in more search results — if a hotel doesn't actually have a kids' club, it doesn't get the “Kids Club” tag, even if that would help it surface in more filtered lists.

This isn't a separate field in our database — it's a rule we apply while writing. Our editorial standard requires every page to include advantages and disadvantages, and to say plainly who a place is a weak fit for when that's relevant. You'll see this most directly in our “Is [Destination] Right for You?” guides, which are structured around exactly that honest split, and in Tripunto Verdicts, which name a hotel's real trade-offs rather than only its strengths.

We'd rather tell you a place isn't for you than write around it to keep you reading.

The short verdict text on every hotel page combines several inputs: location and beach access, room and property standard, guest ratings on external platforms (such as Booking.com), what the hotel is genuinely well-suited for, and any complaints that come up consistently across reviews. We don't stay at every hotel ourselves — where we haven't personally verified a property, that's reflected honestly in its verification status rather than implied otherwise.

We use real, sourced data wherever we can: external ratings from platforms like Booking.com, Tripadvisor and Google, and our own editorial research. Where a figure is our own estimate rather than a number pulled from a real source — this happens with some category-level scoring — it's marked as an estimate internally rather than presented as verified fact.

What we don't do: invent hotels, prices, reviews or ratings. If we don't have real data for something, we either leave it out or say directly that it's not yet available — see how we handle destinations without hotel data above.

Tripunto earns commission through affiliate links (hotel and flight search), disclosed on every page where they appear. Commissions never influence a hotel's segment, tags or verdict — some hotels and destinations we cover have no affiliate relationship with us at all, and we include them anyway when they're genuinely useful. Full detail on how this works is on our Affiliate Disclosure page.

Editorial decisions are made independently of any commercial relationship, and corrections are handled openly when we get something wrong. See our Editorial Policy for how we decide what to cover and how we handle mistakes.