Corrections Policy

Travel information decays. Seaplane operating windows shift, a resort changes its transfer arrangement, a domestic route is dropped, a ferry timetable is revised. Some of what is on this site will be out of date at any given moment. The useful question is not whether that happens, but what we do about it.

Report an error

Write to expert@maldivestravel.fyi with:

the page URL,
what is wrong,
and, if you have it, what is right and how you know.

That last part helps but is not required. “I flew this route last week and the schedule is different” is a perfectly good report — the verification is our job, not yours.

You do not need to give us your name. We read anonymous reports and act on them.

What we do with it

Stage	Timeframe
We acknowledge your report	2 business days
We verify against a primary source	5 business days
Correction published, or we explain why we are not correcting	10 business days

Verification runs against the source hierarchy set out in our Editorial Standards — the airline for its own schedule, the airport operator for airport information, the ferry operator for ferry timetables, the property for its own transfer arrangements.

Where that depends on an operator or resort replying to us, it can take longer. In that case we will tell you where it stands rather than going quiet. If a claim is materially misleading, we flag or remove it while we wait rather than leave it standing.

Expert corrections

If you work in the Maldives and the correction comes from your professional knowledge — a dive instructor on conditions at a site, a surf guide on a swell window, a captain on a crossing time, reservations staff on their own transfer — we do more than quietly fix the text.

We publish your correction as a named expert comment, credited with your name, role and organisation, and linked to your site or profile. The page then carries your knowledge attributed to you rather than absorbed anonymously into ours.

Send these to expert@maldivestravel.fyi. We will confirm the wording and the credit with you before it goes live. Details of how contributors are handled, and what contributing does and does not entitle anyone to, are in section 7 of our Editorial Standards.

How corrections appear

Substantive corrections — an error that could have changed a reader’s decision: a wrong price, a wrong transfer time or duration, a route that does not exist, a misidentified island, dive site or airport, an incorrect entry requirement.

The text is fixed and a dated note is added at the foot of the article stating what was wrong and what it now says. That note stays permanently. The page’s dateModified is updated. Where the error was significant and recent, we also correct any social post that carried it.

Minor corrections — typos, broken links, formatting, a place-name spelling that does not change meaning. Fixed without a note. Maldivian place names have several legitimate romanisations; where we standardise one, that is not a correction.

Clarifications — the facts were right but the wording invited a wrong reading. Fixed with a dated note, marked as a clarification rather than a correction.

Updates — nothing was wrong, but the world changed: a new route opened, a fare rose, a schedule was revised. These are handled through the scheduled review cycle in our Editorial Standards and shown by the page’s “last verified” date, not logged as corrections.

We do not quietly rewrite a page to make an error disappear. If we published it, the record shows we published it.

Where sources disagree

Some things in the Maldives have no single authoritative answer — how many airports the country has, depending on how they are counted, is the obvious example. If you tell us a figure is wrong and we find that credible sources genuinely conflict, we will not simply swap our number for yours.

Instead we publish both, name the source of each, and explain what accounts for the difference. That is our standing rule, set out in section 4 of the Editorial Standards, and it applies to corrections as much as to first publication.

Requests from businesses

If you represent a resort, guesthouse, dive centre, surf camp, airline or agency and something about your operation is stated incorrectly here, write to expert@maldivestravel.fyi with the correct information and a way to verify it.

To be clear about what we will and will not do:

We will correct factual errors about your business promptly and without charge.
We will add material context you can substantiate, credited to you.
We will not remove accurate criticism or unflattering facts that are supported.
We will not amend or remove a page as a condition of any commercial relationship, and we will not discuss corrections and commercial matters in the same conversation.

Disagreements

If we conclude that something is not an error and you disagree, tell us and a different person will look at it again. If we still disagree, we will say so plainly and set out what we based the conclusion on. We would rather leave a documented disagreement in the open than manufacture a consensus.