How commercial partnerships work on Trace Taiwan.
Some pages on Trace Taiwan include links to third-party booking partners. Right now that's Klook. If you click one of those links and book a guided river-tracing tour, Trace Taiwan may earn a small commission. You pay the same price you would going to the partner directly. The commission comes out of the partner's margin, not your pocket.
We only surface partner links on pages where a guided tour is genuinely relevant: region pages, city pages, and trace (trip report) pages. You won't see them on the home page, the map, or the rivers index.
Every partner link names the partner in the button itself ("Book on Klook" or "Browse tours on Klook"), opens in a new tab, and is tagged rel="sponsored" so search engines and assistive technology can identify it as a commercial link. You never have to guess where a link is taking you.
The presence of a partner link doesn't influence which traces, rivers, or regions we surface on Trace Taiwan. Our community-written trip reports and editorial decisions about what to feature are kept independent of any commercial relationship. If a guided tour genuinely doesn't exist for a particular spot, there's no partner link for it.
If you'd rather not use a partner link, you can go directly to the partner's website yourself, or search for a local tour operator elsewhere. Trace Taiwan's core content (GPS coordinates, photos, write-ups, safety info) is free regardless.
Have a question about a specific link or the way we handle partnerships? Contact us.