How this site is made

• Answer the reader's actual question before anything else.
• Cite primary sources; never cite a competitor as authority.
• Publish “not verified” instead of an unconfirmed number.
• No paid placements, no affiliate-driven conclusions, no fake reviews or ratings.
• Every time-sensitive page shows when it was last checked.

We prefer Sri Lankan government and official sources — Sri Lanka Tourism and the Tourism Development Authority, the Department of Immigration and Emigration, the ETA portal, Sri Lanka Railways, the Department of Wildlife Conservation, the Department of Meteorology and the airport authority — plus foreign-government travel advice (UK FCDO, Australian Smartraveller) for market-specific entry detail.

Every source used on a page is listed on that page with a link.

Pages carry created, updated, published, reviewed and last-verified timestamps. Review intervals are shorter for information that moves: 90 days for visa and airport information, 120 days for train timetables, park fees and opening times, 180 days for weather guidance, 150 days for costs and 365 days otherwise. Freshness is shown publicly as Fresh, Review needed or Outdated.

Draft and archived records are excluded from the public site, the sitemap, search, JSON-LD, related-content queries and public APIs at the query level. Editors read them only through the noindex preview in the editorial desk.

We do not publish hidden text for crawlers, AI-only pages or scraped summaries. The goal is simpler: clear answers, real entity relationships, original information, good images, structured markup, visible sources and fresh dates — which is what a traveller needs and what any search assistant can quote accurately.

Anyone can file a correction. Reports are checked against the source, and confirmed changes are made with an updated verification date. See the corrections page.