Commercial disclosure: how Uncompromised Travel makes money

Richard Jasinski · Founder, editor and publisher. Edits every piece on the site and stands behind it. Based in Valencia, Spain.

Uncompromised Travel earns money in two ways: a commission when a reader books through an affiliate link, and labelled partner placements sold to companies for twelve months. Neither buys a rank, a score or a verdict. This page names every affiliate programme and every paid partner, says what a placement is and where it appears, 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 · Affiliate links

An affiliate link is a tracked link. If you click it and book, the company pays the site a commission; the price to you is the same, and nothing on the site is hidden behind a click. The disclosure at the foot of each page names the affiliate links on that page, and in the page code they are tagged as sponsored, so search engines treat them as paid. You can always look the company up and book direct for the same price.

The site works with seven affiliate programmes, as of 29 September 2026:

Some older pages still carry links to programmes the site no longer uses; none of those programmes has paid the site, and the links are removed as each page is refreshed. Card issuers and hotel programmes are added to this list only when a programme is approved and its link is live; until then a card or hotel is written about without a paid link. There is no private aviation affiliate at present, so charter pages carry no commission link.

2 · Paid partners

A company can buy a labelled partnership for twelve months. As of 29 September 2026 the site has two paid partners. Wherever a partner's placement appears it is marked Partner, and partner links are tagged as sponsored in the page code, as affiliate links are.

If the site is ever paid for research or a licence by a company or tourism board it writes about, that client will be named here too.

3 · 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. Pages that carry a partner's placement carry no affiliate link to a direct competitor of that partner. What a partnership includes is set out on For brands; prices are sent on request.

4 · 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 pay commission or 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.

5 · 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.

6 · 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

Raise a concern: richard@uncompromised.travel

Richard Jasinski · Uncompromised Travel · Valencia, Spain · updated 29 September 2026: paid partners named, affiliate list cut to the seven programmes in use, partner proofs and corrections set out as they work