The publishing gate

A destination is eligible for the approval cohort only when it has a real hero image with traceable rights, named local areas, activity-specific limitations, at least two credible source types where the claims require them, a human-written stay plan, visible authorship, a review date and no unsupported claim of live conditions. Pages that do not pass can remain available to users while being excluded from the search sitemap until the work is complete.

What “desk-researched” means here

It means the guide was assembled from source material, map and dataset analysis rather than a claimed personal visit. We will never manufacture firsthand experience. Where a local guide, athlete or resident reviews a page in the future, that reviewer and contribution will be named separately.