How we make money, and what it cannot buy.

Trip Arbitrage is free to read. It is paid for by commissions: when you follow a booking link on this site and buy something, the company you bought from may pay us a share. You pay the same price either way.

Where the links are

Booking links appear in a section headed “Booking a trip” on country and city pages, and beside some tools. They are labeled as partner links and carry the technical marker (rel="sponsored") that tells search engines the same thing. Links inside articles to sources and official sites are never paid.

What money cannot change

• Scores and rankings are computed from exchange rates, inflation, advisories and our cost and ease estimates. The code that ranks countries has no access to which links pay or how much.
• No country, tourism board, airline, hotel or card issuer can pay for a position, a mention or a change of wording.
• We do not show booking links for a country under a Do Not Travel advisory, however cheap it looks.
• We do not recommend a money product for a country where foreign cards and transfers do not work.
• If we would not use a company ourselves, it is not linked.

What we do not do

No display advertising, no pop-ups, no sponsored articles, and no selling of reader data. If that ever changes, this page will say so first.

Financial products

Some links are to financial products such as multi-currency accounts and payment cards. What we write about them is general information, not personal financial advice. Terms and fees change; check them with the provider before you sign up.

Questions

How the index itself is built is on the method page. Who is behind the site is on the about page.