Affiliate disclosure
How TopTrip makes money, which links earn a commission, and what that does and does not influence.
TopTrip carries no affiliate links, no sponsored posts and no advertising. Nothing on this site earns money when you click it, and nobody pays to appear here.
Why this page exists anyway
Because the honest answer to “how does this site make money” is worth stating even when the answer is “it does not”. It also means you can read a recommendation here without wondering which link paid for it.
If that changes
Chinese rail and domestic booking is largely closed to affiliate networks. If commercial links are ever added, this page will say so before they appear, every such link will go through a /go/ redirect tagged as sponsored, and the pages carrying them will show a notice next to the links rather than only in the footer.
How we choose what to recommend
Places are chosen on whether they repay the travel time to reach them. In a country this large that is the binding constraint, and a page that ignores it recommends things nobody will actually fit in.
Questions
If anything here is unclear, ask: [email protected].