Who runs this site and how articles are written and checked

Who runs it

travelarbitrage.net is operated by YICHU TRIP (旅库旅行). We do not guess at a longer legal entity name or place of registration here; a later legal page will add them. YICHU TRIP books flights, hotels, and cruises, and works with travel advisors, independent agents, and agencies. Quote requests and partnership inquiries go through the contact page.

Articles carry an organizational byline (Travel Arbitrage). There are no personal author pages. Unless a piece says otherwise, research from public sources is not written up as a first-hand trip.

How an article gets made

1. Set the questions. Using the words readers actually type into search engines, list what the piece has to answer.
2. Gather official sources. Only official pages or PDFs from whoever sets the rule: airlines, hotel groups, cruise lines, embassies and government agencies, tourism boards, and attractions, plus the terms and help pages of booking sites, card issuers, and phone and eSIM makers. The full page text is saved. Pages that only render in a browser are opened in a browser and their text saved. Sites that return 403 or a bot check are not bypassed; the article says that page could not be checked.
3. Write. Hard facts (prices, fees, thresholds, dates, deadlines, eligibility, required documents) must appear in the official page text, with numbers as written there. Anything the official text does not give is left out, not estimated. No “we tested it,” no invented cases or statistics. Writers put no affiliate or booking-site links in the body; partner cards and quote cards are added by the site after the relevant section, separate from the article text.
4. Independent review. A model from a different company checks the draft sentence by sentence against the official text for five problems: contradictions, claims with no source, fabrication, questions left unanswered, and rule violations. Each finding is accepted or rejected one by one. A script then checks links, formatting, and any number that does not appear in the official text.
5. Check the cut-off parts. For long official pages only one section goes into the brief, so the writer and the reviewer never see the rest. The unused parts are exported and checked against the final draft for two things: places where the draft says the official page is silent but that part does cover it, and hard numbers that disagree with it. Each hit is confirmed against the original page before the draft is fixed.
6. Approve and publish. Approval records a fingerprint of that exact version; only the approved version can be published. The previous version is backed up first.

What you see on the page

• “Verified” under the title is the date this version finished checking and went live. It is updated again after a correction.
• “Official sources” at the end lists the official pages used, each with its domain and a link, so you can read the original yourself.
• When an official page does not cover something, the article says which page and where to look instead. It does not guess on the authority’s behalf.

Prices, visa rules, change fees, and entry policies change. If an official page changed after the verified date, what the airline, hotel, embassy, or authority publishes on the day you pay or travel is what counts. The public site shows only articles in published status; drafts, pieces under review, and retired articles are not shown.

Found an error?

If a number does not match, a rule is out of date, or a source link is broken, email us the page URL and what is wrong. Once we confirm it against the official material, we fix the article and update its verified date. See the corrections policy.

Commercial links

Articles made through the process above have no affiliate links in the article text. Some articles show a separate, labelled card after a relevant section. There are two kinds:

• Things we do not sell (eSIMs, tickets and tours, airport transfers, car rental and similar): the card is marked “Partner link” and goes through an on-site /go hop to the partner page. If you complete a qualifying booking or purchase after that hop, we may earn a commission.
• Hotels, flights and cruises: YICHU TRIP handles these bookings itself. The card is a quote request with no price; ask with your travel dates. Every article also ends with one such quote request.

Where an article concludes that you should use the official channel, we put no partner link for that item. Commission does not change an article’s conclusion or decide which pieces are listed first. For now, the flight search page uses a partner’s search box (Trip.com); if you book through it, we may earn a commission. We will replace the search box with our own price check when that is ready. Details: affiliate disclosure.