Sources and editorial policy

The purpose of LatviaLinks is to help a reader choose places, build a workable route and understand the setting of a trip. Pages favour specific names, realistic connections and useful distinctions over promotional claims.

A destination guide is not a live timetable or booking service. Opening hours, fares, event programmes, construction work and transport schedules can change after a page is reviewed, so the relevant operator or institution remains the final source for a dated decision.

National and municipal institutions, attraction operators, museums, transport operators, official statistics, universities and recognised cultural organisations are prioritised. The national tourism portal is useful for broad visitor context, while operator pages are preferred for practical details about a particular service or place.

Secondary sources may help identify a topic or explain how travellers describe it, but they do not replace a suitable primary source for a factual claim. Anonymous summaries and copied travel lists are not treated as evidence.

Sources: Vivi: information for train passengers , Road Transport Administration: Public Transport Division

The published date records when a guide first became public. The reviewed date records the most recent substantive check of its facts, sources or traveller guidance. A copyright-year change or a purely visual adjustment does not justify a new editorial review date.

Review dates are also used in the site map only when they reflect a meaningful update. This keeps the visible page, structured data and crawl information aligned.

Sources: Google Search Central: build and submit a sitemap

Stable context and changing details are treated differently. Geography, the role of a museum collection or the broad character of a regional route may remain useful for a long time. Prices, timetables, seasonal access and event dates need a dated source and a clear prompt to check the provider.

If reliable sources disagree, the page avoids presenting one version as settled without explanation. If a claim cannot be supported at publication time, it is removed or qualified.

Some accommodation links use Stay22 affiliate tracking. If a reader follows one of these links and completes a booking, LatviaLinks may receive a commission from the booking platform at no extra cost to the reader. Affiliate links are labelled beside the relevant search or booking prompt and carry the sponsored link attribute.

Commercial tracking does not decide which destinations, areas or properties receive editorial coverage. Live accommodation matches are presented as external search results, not as LatviaLinks recommendations or rankings. The booking platform remains responsible for prices, availability, property details, payment and cancellation terms.

LatviaLinks sends the accommodation query to Stay22 from the server and keeps the response only for a short period. Property thumbnails are supplied with that response and loaded from the accommodation providers' image networks without sending the LatviaLinks page address as a referrer. The site does not load a Stay22 script, map or tracking frame merely because a reader opens a guide.

Sources: Stay22 developer documentation

LatviaLinks does not accept a listing as true because a place describes itself that way. Editorial wording is chosen independently, and commercial relationships do not determine factual conclusions or rankings.

Clear corrections are made when a reliable source shows that published information is wrong or outdated. A corrected page receives a new reviewed date when the change is substantive.

LatviaLinks was created as a companion to LithuaniaLinks, but it has its own Latvia-focused editorial structure, source records and publishing decisions.