Editorial Policy
How Love Zermatt researches, fact-checks and updates its Zermatt guides — and the editorial team that compiles and reviews them.
- ✓Every guide is researched against primary sources — lift companies, the railways, Zermatt Tourism — and reviewed by the editorial team before it publishes.
- ✓Time-sensitive facts — timetables, pass prices, lift and piste status, seasonal opening — are linked to their official source so you can re-verify.
- ✓Recommendations are editorial and independent: no payment for inclusion, no affiliate links, no commission.
Who writes and edits these guides
Love Zermatt's guides are compiled and maintained by The Love Zermatt editorial team. Compiled and maintained by the Love Zermatt editorial team from official tourism boards, lift and rail operator timetables, and public data. Guides are reviewed and updated regularly. We don't accept payment for inclusion.
Each guide carries a visible byline and a last-updated date so you always know who stands behind the advice and when it was last checked against conditions on the mountain.
How we research and fact-check
We build guides from primary sources first: Zermatt Bergbahnen and the Gornergrat Bahn for lifts and timetables, the Matterhorn Gotthard Bahn for the rail and Täsch shuttle, Zermatt Tourism for trails and seasons. Where a fact can change between visits — a lift's opening date, a pass price, whether the Cervinia crossing is running, a Findeln terrace's hours — we link the official source and tell you to confirm it before you commit money or time.
We separate the durable from the perishable. Evergreen advice (why the village is car-free, how to read the valley by altitude, when the larches turn) is written to last; perishable detail (this season's prices, dates and live lift status) is flagged as such and pointed at the official board.
Independence and corrections
Recommendations are editorial. We accept no payment for inclusion and earn no commission on the hotels, restaurants, lifts or guides we mention; there are no affiliate links anywhere on the site, and if that ever changes we will say so plainly on the page. Photography is either our own or used under licence with attribution.
We update guides as the valley changes — a new lift, a re-timed shuttle, a closed trail — and we re-date them when we do. If you spot an error, tell us and we will fix it; corrections to factual mistakes are made promptly and noted where they matter.