This affiliate disclosure explains, in plain terms, how Botswana Travel Guide makes money. Some links on this site are affiliate links, and if you book through one we may earn a commission. Nothing about that changes what appears on these pages, and nothing about it costs you anything.
What an affiliate link is
An affiliate link is an ordinary link with a tag attached that tells the destination site we sent you. If you go on to book, the partner pays us a small commission out of its own margin.
You pay nothing extra. The price you are shown is the partner’s price, and it is the same whether you arrive from this site, from a search engine, or by typing the address yourself. Following an affiliate link does not add a fee, remove a discount or affect your booking terms.
What this affiliate disclosure does not change
Commission has no influence on our editorial decisions. Specifically:
- Nobody pays to be included. There is no paid placement, sponsored listing or advertorial on this site.
- Commission does not affect ordering. Regions, parks and types of accommodation are ordered by what makes sense for a reader planning a trip, never by what pays.
- We write the same way about places we earn nothing from. Government campsites, community campsites and concession camps closed to self-drive all appear here, and most of them pay us nothing at all.
- Commission never buys a kind adjective. Our editorial policy sets out the rest.
Who our partners are
Our affiliate relationships are with accommodation booking partners. The discovery and booking layer we use is Stay22, which surfaces properties and passes bookings on to the platforms that actually hold them. Where you see a map of places to stay, or a link to check a property, that is the layer you are working with.
We have no affiliate arrangement with any tourism authority, park authority or government body, and no affiliation with them in any other sense — see our about page.
What we do not do
- We display no prices, availability, star ratings or review scores of our own. Any you see come from the booking partner’s own interface and can change at any moment. We do not check them, endorse them or take responsibility for them.
- We do not operate, own or sell accommodation, and we take no bookings. We are not a travel agent or tour operator.
- We cannot help with your booking. Confirmations, changes, cancellations, refunds and complaints are between you and the partner or the property. We have no access to your reservation and no ability to intervene.
Our accommodation section is written to give context — what kinds of places exist in which areas, and the trade-offs between them — rather than to quote rates.
How affiliate links are marked, and how to avoid them
Affiliate links on this site carry rel=”sponsored noopener”. That is the machine-readable declaration search engines ask for, and it lets you identify one by inspecting the link.
If you would rather not use them, that is entirely reasonable and costs you nothing here. Note the property name from our pages and go to the booking site directly, or search for the property yourself. Every page remains complete and equally useful either way — nothing on this site is withheld behind an affiliate link, and no page is written to push you through one.
Questions about any of this are welcome through the contact page. See also our privacy policy, which covers the cookies partner links may set, and our terms of use.