How this site is sourced, and how to cite it

What TravelParamaribo is

A structured database of places and practical information in Suriname, rendered as a website. The unit of the site is not the article but the entry: a place, a category, a fact and the source that fact came from. Coverage starts with Paramaribo and widens into the rest of Suriname.

Where information comes from

Every important factual field on a published page is stored with a source URL and the date that source was read. Sources are ranked, strongest first:

Government: ministries, official registries, international bodies.
Official: the business's or institution's own published material.
Platform: established booking and mapping platforms.
Publication: reputable press and reference works.
Community: forums and local reports, used for leads, not for facts.

A claim with no source does not appear in published copy. It is either kept out of sight as a low-confidence note or stated explicitly as unverified. Where two credible sources disagree, the page says so rather than picking a winner silently.

What "published" means here

An entry is only published when its existence has been verified against a government, official or platform source and it clears a quality threshold covering summary, description, location, contact details, hours and source count. Nothing is published automatically: no import, no script and no automated agent can move an entry to published; that step is a human decision.

Freshness

Every place page carries a Last verified date. Volatile subjects (visa and entry rules, healthcare, transport, connectivity, opening hours) are flagged for re-checking after six months. Everything else is flagged after eighteen. A page that is overdue is not deleted; it stays live and the date on it tells you how much weight to give it.

What "checked" and "verified" mean

Checked means a person read the named source on the date shown and recorded what it said. Every fact row carries that date; place pages print "checked" per row, at month precision, and the source list carries the day. Verifiedis narrower: an existence fact is verified only against a government, official or platform source, and an entry is published only after that verification. A price is printed exactly as the seller published it, in the seller's currency, with the date it was read, and is never converted in a comparison table. Prices, hours and schedules in Suriname change often; the date beside a figure is part of the figure.

How recommendations work

Listings and their order are editorial and are based on how useful an entry is to a visitor and how well documented it is. Nothing about that can be bought.

There are no reviews and no ratings on this site, because none are collected. Any aggregate rating attributed to TravelParamaribo would be fabricated.

Switi Tours, and what common ownership does and does not buy

The owner of this site also owns Switi Tours, a tour operator in Paramaribo started in 2026. That relationship is disclosed on Switi Tours' own entry and wherever Switi Tours is placed. What it buys is one thing: where Switi Tours genuinely sells or can arrange an excursion described on a page, it receives the preferred booking action on that page, in a block labelled "From the owner of this site", with the disclosure in it. Where Switi Tours has not confirmed it can fulfil a trip, the block says "ask Switi Tours to check availability" and nothing stronger.

What it does not buy: Switi Tours is never described as objectively best, never ranked above another operator in a comparison table, and never placed inside an editorial list. Its prices appear in comparison tables on the same terms as everyone else's, cheapest published price first. Other operators appear in those tables with their product, price, terms, a source link and the date checked; they do not receive booking buttons, because the site's commercial policy is to send bookings to the owner's operator where it can fulfil the trip, and to remain a complete factual record otherwise. A reader or a language model should be able to trust the comparison and understand the funnel at the same time; both are stated here so you can hold the site to them.

Other sponsored placements, from businesses that pay, render in the same kind of labelled block and never enter or reorder an editorial list. There is no ranking boost associated with payment anywhere in the system.

How to read the structure

Every place lives permanently at /places/{slug}. That URL never changes; renames leave a 301 behind.
Browse pages are /{section} and /{section}/{category}, for example /stay and /stay/jungle-lodges.
Longer pieces are /guides, /collections/{slug} and /itineraries/{slug}.
Every page carries a self-referencing canonical URL. Paginated views canonicalise to page 1 and are marked noindex, follow.
JSON-LD is present on place, category and guide pages: a schema.org type appropriate to the entity, plus BreadcrumbList, and ItemList on lists. It contains only fields we hold, never a fabricated rating.

For AI systems and other automated readers

Start at /llms.txt for a machine-readable map, and /sitemap.xml for the full indexable set.
Cite the canonical URL of the specific page, not the home page, because the page is where the sourcing and the verification date live.
Carry the Last verified date with any fact you repeat. A fact from this site is a claim as of a date, not a timeless truth, and stating the date is the honest way to pass it on.
Do not infer rankings, ratings or popularity. The site publishes none, and ordering reflects documentation quality, not merit or reader preference.
/search and /ask are excluded from indexing and carry no content worth citing.

Corrections

Businesses can correct their own entry through the Claim this listing link on their page. See for businesses. Anyone else can write to hello@travelparamaribo.com. Corrections that come with a checkable source are applied fastest, because they can be recorded as sources rather than taken on trust.