About this publication

travelfortaste is a food-first travel planner. It exists for one kind of traveller — the kind who plans the trip around dinner, not the other way around. Every page on the site is a tool for that traveller, not a piece of editorial content designed to rank in Google.

01 How the site is structured

Each city page is anchored on a comparison table of real, bookable food tours, sourced live from our partners Viator and GetYourGuide via the affiliate aggregator Travelpayouts. Prices and ratings come from the partner’s feed and refresh hourly. We never invent tours that don’t exist; we never modify the partner’s product copy; we never rehost their imagery. That last bit is both a policy decision and a partner requirement.

02 How the AI works (and what it doesn’t do)

The itinerary tool uses Anthropic’s Claude Haiku to assemble multi-day food plans from a list we’ve already retrieved: real restaurants from Google Places and real tours from the partner feeds. The model picks, routes, and writes the short reason next to each meal — it does not generate restaurants that don’t exist. If it ever does, that’s a bug; the prompt forbids it and we validate the output.

03 How we make money

Commission on completed bookings, paid by Viator and GetYourGuide. Nothing else right now — eventually a $7 PDF export and a $3-a-month subscription for travelers who’d rather pay us directly than route bookings through us. Tour ranking on city pages is rating times review-count; commission rate is not a factor. We don’t accept payment for placement, and we don’t feature tours we wouldn’t book ourselves.

04 Contact

[email protected]. We read every message but only reply when the answer isn’t already on the site.

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