Image Credits

Every photo, illustration, and graphic that appears on jetsetjotter.com is there for a reason: to help you picture a destination, plan a route, or get a feel for a trip before you book it. This page explains where our images come from, how we handle licensing and attribution, and what to do if you believe one of your own images has been used without proper credit or permission.

Where Our Images Come From

We use a mix of the following sources across our destinations, itineraries, and road trip guides:

• Original photography taken by our own team or contributors during real trips.
• Images purchased or licensed through reputable stock photography and illustration platforms, used within the terms of their commercial licenses.
• Royalty-free and public domain images that permit free use, including for commercial websites.
• Creative Commons licensed photos, credited to the original photographer or source as required by the specific license type.
• Images supplied directly by tourism boards, hotels, or brands as part of a collaboration, shared with explicit permission for use on our site.

We take licensing seriously. Before an image is published, our editorial team checks that it is either owned by us, properly licensed, or cleared for reuse. This process is part of the same care we apply across our Editorial Policy, which governs how we research, write, and fact-check content on this site.

How We Credit Third-Party Images

When an image requires attribution under its license, we credit it as close to the image as reasonably possible, typically as a caption or a note at the end of the relevant article. Credit formats vary depending on the platform or license, but generally include the photographer or creator's name, the source platform, and, where applicable, a link back to the original work.

If you spot an image on our site that is missing a credit it should have, please do not assume it was intentional. Licensing metadata is sometimes incomplete or gets stripped when files are shared between platforms, and mistakes happen. We would rather fix it quickly than argue about it.

Reuse and Permission Rules

Images published on jetsetjotter.com fall into two broad categories when it comes to reuse:

Images We Own

Original photography and graphics created by our team remain our property. If you would like to use one of our original images elsewhere — on a blog, in print, or on social media — please reach out first through our Contact page. Small-scale, non-commercial use with clear credit and a link back to jetsetjotter.com is often something we can approve on request, but we ask that you check with us before publishing rather than after.

Licensed or Third-Party Images

Stock, Creative Commons, and partner-supplied images are used on our site under specific licenses that do not transfer to you simply because the image appears here. If you want to reuse an image that originated from a stock platform, a tourism board, or another photographer, you will need to secure your own license or permission directly from that original source, not from us.

Pinterest and Social Sharing

We create and share pinnable graphics to help readers save our destination guides and itineraries for later. If you came across one of our images on Pinterest, our Pinterest Disclaimer explains how those graphics are meant to be used, including linking back to the original article rather than re-hosting the image elsewhere.

Accuracy and How Images Are Used

Photos on a travel site are illustrative by nature. A photo used in an article about a coastal town, for example, may show a similar view rather than the exact spot mentioned in the text, especially in listicles or seasonal roundups. We do our best to keep images relevant and honest to the destination described, but visuals should always be treated as a general impression rather than an exact, guaranteed representation of what you will see in person. This ties into the broader notes in our Disclaimer, which covers the general limits of relying on any single piece of content, image included, when making travel decisions.

Requesting a Credit Correction or Takedown

If you are a photographer, illustrator, or rights holder and you believe:

• an image on our site belongs to you and lacks proper credit,
• an image is being used beyond the scope of its original license, or
• you would like an image removed entirely,

please contact us directly at [email protected]. To help us resolve the matter quickly, include the exact page URL where the image appears, a description or file name of the image in question, and details of your ownership or the license terms involved. We review every request individually and aim to respond within a reasonable timeframe, correcting attribution or removing the image where appropriate.

Related Policies

This page works alongside several other policies that govern how content appears on our site. For details on sponsored content and partnerships that may include supplied images, see our Disclosure and Affiliate Disclaimer pages. For how we handle data more broadly, including anything submitted through contact forms, our Privacy Policy has the full details.

We built jetsetjotter.com to be a trustworthy resource for real trip planning, and that includes being straightforward about the visuals we use. If anything on this page is unclear, or if you simply want to say hello, our Contact page is always open.