Rethinking travel guides for the digital age
For over two centuries, each major innovation has given rise to a new generation of guidebooks: the blue guides were born in the 19th century from the railway, the red and green guides from the car, and finally, the backpackers and Lonely Planet from the democratization of the airplane. In tourism, blogging is clearly the emerging form of the digital revolution, but the sector has yet to mature.
By creating the Region Lovers brand and investing in its development, we aim to provide readers with a trusted reference point at the heart of the web. All our information is verified in the field, regularly updated and totally independent. This requirement comes at a cost, but it is the basis of our contract of trust with our readers, and essential at a time when generative AI is becoming more widespread.
Our contract of trust with our readers
- Visit all the places we tell you about.
- For each city, stay in at least one hotel and visit the ones we recommend.
- For each city, eat in at least one restaurant, visit the ones we select.
- Pay all our invoices in full, refuse any partnership or sponsorship.
- Periodically update our articles, with the help of our readers.
- Enrich our articles with our first-hand experiences.
- Use 99% of our own photos
- Use digital tools in a reasoned and transparent way, feeding them with information verified on site.
- Provide information on the traveler/writer pairing that gave rise to the article.
- Tell you what we do, and do what we tell you!
Claire and Manu
