Editorial standards & policies

Our editors decide what we cover and how. We cover destinations of every scale and choose subjects for what they can teach readers about regeneration — including places where the evidence is weak or the story is uncomfortable.

We do not accept payment for editorial coverage. Destinations, hotels and other organisations we write about do not see or approve stories before publication, whatever their relationship with Regenera Luxury. We may contact them to check facts.

Opinion and commentary are labelled as such. News reports what has been announced and by whom.

Every claim about environmental, social, economic or cultural impact is linked to its original source, with its publication date where available. Sources are labelled as independent, government, academic, media, NGO or first-party.

We place initiatives on a five-step scale:

1. Aspiration — A stated intention, vision or strategy.
2. Announced — A named initiative, publicly launched; no reported results yet.
3. In progress — Implementation under way; activity reported by its owner.
4. Documented — Outputs or outcomes reported with data, still first-party.
5. Verified — Outcomes reported by an independent party.

We never present a target as an achievement or describe an initiative as successful without supporting evidence. A profile that includes sources has not been audited; our evidence reading describes documentation, not quality, and is not a certification.

• Regenerative — used for intentions and practices aimed at restoring systems, never as a label we award.
• Sustainable — reducing harm or maintaining a baseline; not interchangeable with regenerative.
• Nature-positive — a measurable net gain in nature against a baseline; we use it only where a baseline and metric exist.
• Stewardship — long-term care of a place by those with responsibility for it, including residents and Indigenous custodians.
• Certified / verified — only when an independent body has done so, named and linked.
• Community — we name which community, and how its views were sourced.

If we get something wrong, we correct it as quickly as possible. Significant corrections are noted at the end of the story with the date and what changed; minor fixes (typos, broken links) are made without a note.

Write to [email protected] with the page, the error and, if possible, a source. We aim to respond within five working days.

We do not currently publish sponsored content. If we ever do, it will be labelled “Sponsored” above the headline and in the page metadata, kept visually distinct from editorial content, and links within it will carry rel="sponsored".

The site carries a small number of advertisements, currently from Regenera Luxury, our affiliated organisation. Every advertisement is labelled “Advertisement” and names the advertiser and the affiliation; it sits outside the editorial text and its links carry rel="sponsored". Advertisements never appear on destination profiles, next to evidence readings, or on stories that carry an affiliation disclosure, and advertisers have no say over editorial content.

Regenerative Destinations is affiliated with Regenera Luxury, which has commercial relationships with some destinations, hotels and public bodies. Where a page concerns one of them, it carries a disclosure. Inclusion in this publication never implies a rating, endorsement or certification by Regenera Luxury, and does not lead to one.

We link to sources and further reading because they help readers. Links to affiliated sites, including Regenera Luxury and The Regenera Luxury Journal, are added individually where relevant to the story and are labelled as affiliated. We do not place sitewide or keyword-stuffed links, and we do not exchange links for payment. Paid or affiliate links, should we ever use them, will be disclosed and marked rel="sponsored".

We use AI tools to help research, summarise sources and draft. Every story is checked against its sources and approved by a human editor before publication; pages marked “In editorial review” have not yet completed that step. We do not use AI to generate quotations or photographs of real places.

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