How this is written, sourced and paid for.

Who writes this

Everything on iLuxuryTravels is written and edited in-house by The iLuxuryTravels Editorial Team. We do not publish sponsored posts, guest posts, or paid-placement articles, and we do not accept payment for inclusion in a guide or a collection.

iLuxuryTravels publishes AI-assisted editorial drafts reviewed against named sources and recorded listings. Unconfirmed details are removed or identified; property photographs remain illustrative until identity and rights are confirmed.

How we use AI tools

We use AI writing tools to help draft and restructure some copy, summarise official source pages, and suggest metadata. AI output is treated as a first draft only: every fact, date, figure, link, caption and edit is checked and approved in-house by a human editor before publication, and claims we cannot verify against a primary source are softened or removed.

We follow Google Search's guidance on generative-AI content: pages are written for travellers first, not to rank, and we do not mass-produce templated pages. Property photographs are labelled illustrative unless a supplier has confirmed the listing.

The Trip Planner is an AI tool that generates a private, on-screen suggestion for each visitor. Those itineraries are not reviewed by an editor and are not published as pages on this site. The planner can only suggest villas that are published in our collection and only shows nightly rates recorded in our inventory; hotel and other options link to partner searches where live prices and availability are shown.

How we source figures

Every statistic in a report or guide is attributed to a named primary source and linked, so a reader or an editor can check it without contacting us. Where a figure comes from our own partner inventory rather than a published study, we say so.

Rates are published as indicative bands tied to a season, never as a quoted price for specific dates. A villa's price is set by the owner and the agency holding the calendar and moves with demand; the live figure always comes from the supplier holding the dates.

Dating and revision

Each guide, report and essay carries a publication date and a last-checked date. Seasonal rate tables are revisited at least once a year and after any material market move. When we change a figure, the revision date changes with it.

We do not silently rewrite a published claim. Substantive corrections are noted on the page.

Commercial disclosure

iLuxuryTravels earns affiliate commission when a reader books through a partner link. Those partners include Booking.com, Expedia, Hotels.com and the wider Stay22 network. Commission is paid on completed stays and does not vary by which house or town we recommend.

No supplier pays to appear in a guide, to rank higher in the Collection, or to influence a rate table. Where our commercial interest and a reader's interest diverge — most obviously in our shoulder-season writing, which argues against the weeks that pay us most — we publish the reader's version.

Images and permissions

Property photography is supplied by owners and partner agencies for marketing use. Editorial and location imagery is licensed or produced in-house. We do not present a photograph of one property as another, and we do not retouch a view that does not exist.

Corrections and right of reply

If we have published something inaccurate — a rate, a transfer time, an ownership detail, a closure — tell us and we will check it against the source and correct it. Owners and agencies named in a piece have a right of reply, which we will publish alongside the original where the point is contested.

Correction requests and press enquiries both go through the contact route on the press page.

Using our work

Journalists and editors are welcome to quote our figures and reports with attribution to iLuxuryTravels and a link to the page cited. The press kit carries ready-made citation lines and an embeddable chart.

Wholesale republication of a guide or essay, and any commercial use of our data feeds or APIs, requires written permission — see the terms of service.