About the project
Armenia Guidebook is an independent travel publisher’s guide to Armenia, written for people planning a trip from abroad. Since July 2026 it has grown to over 150 guides in English and Russian: what to see, cities, food, ready-made routes, transport, car rental, insurance, entry rules and a section for those moving to Armenia.
Every guide is built the same way: the topic comes from what travellers search for before a trip, every number is traced to the page of the company or authority that sets it, and the date of the last check is printed on the page. How that works in practice is below.
How topics are chosen
We start from demand, not from a wish list. A topic makes the calendar when search data shows people asking that question before a trip to Armenia: how to get from Zvartnots airport into Yerevan, whether a visa is needed, what a rental car costs, which day trips fit into a week. A question nobody asks doesn’t get a guide, however pretty the place.
Where a guide is about places rather than logistics, we only include those that are consistently well reviewed across several independent sources. A restaurant praised on one platform and ignored or faulted on the others isn’t a consensus, and we leave it out. The rating itself stays on the platform: we say why a place made the list, not what score it holds.
How every number is checked
Each price, timetable, distance and date in a guide has a passport: which page of the operator it came from and when we looked at it. The link is kept in the guide’s sources, and a script runs before every publication and stops it if a number in the title, lead or tables cannot be found on any operator page listed. Aggregators, booking sites and other people’s blogs do not count as a source, however tidy they look.
For Armenia that most often means armenia.travel and visityerevan.am for sights and opening hours, hikearmenia.org for trails, tatever.am for the Wings of Tatev cableway and yellextremepark.com for its rides, with mfa.am, gov.uk and travel.state.gov for entry and safety rules. A price is still a snapshot as of the check date, not a guarantee: confirm the figure that matters to you on the operator’s page before you pay.
Photos and sources
Photographs come from Wikimedia Commons under open licences, with the author, the licence and a link to the original under every image. A photo shows the place the guide is about, or is marked as illustrative when it does not, and the same frame is not reused across guides under different names.
Text sources are listed at the end of each guide. We don’t reprint ratings, review counts or copyrighted descriptions from other sites: a rating is a selection criterion for us, not content.
How the guide is made
Research and first drafts are produced with AI tools; an editor sets the brief, checks the draft against the sources, fixes what does not hold up and publishes. The check date on each guide is the day that pass was completed, and guides are re-read by season, because prices drift and places close.
Armenia Guidebook is one of a family of twelve country guides run by the same publisher on one editorial system, so the rules and checks described here are the same across all of them. The editor is A. Kobtsev; the same name signs the footer of every page.
How the project pays for itself
Some links on the site are affiliate links: car rental, accommodation, tours, insurance, connectivity. If you follow such a link and book, the service pays us a small commission; the price for you stays the same, and the project is updated on these funds.
Partnership doesn’t affect selection. A place or a service gets into the guide because it holds up to checking, not because it pays a commission, and if the better or more honest option has no affiliate link, we recommend it anyway.