About the project
Serbia Guidebook is an independent travel publisher’s guide to Serbia, written in English for people planning a trip from abroad. It holds over 150 guides: attractions and cities, food and restaurants, entertainment, ready-made routes, transport, car rental, insurance, relocation, and a “before you go” section on visas, money, and safety. The first guides went live in July 2026, and the collection has been growing since.
We don’t write from memory and we don’t retell other people’s articles. Below is how topics get picked, how every number is traced to its source, where the photos come from, and how the whole thing is put together.
How topics are chosen
Topics come from demand: what people look up before a trip to Serbia, from “do I need a visa” and “how to get from Belgrade airport to the city” to the Šargan Eight timetable and Kopaonik lift passes. A question travelers keep asking gets a guide; a topic nobody searches for doesn’t, however pretty the place.
Where a guide recommends specific places, they have to hold high marks across several independent sources, not one glowing review and silence everywhere else. That filter is only the entrance. The guide itself is our own description, with the details checked and the check date shown.
How every number is checked
Every price, timetable, distance, and date in a guide is traced to the page of the operator who sets it: the railway, the road authority, the ski resort, the ministry. The link to that page, with the date it was checked, is kept in the sources of each guide. On this site the most frequent ones are srbijavoz.rs for trains, putevi-srbije.rs for tolls and roads, skijalistasrbije.rs for lifts and ski passes, mfa.gov.rs for entry rules, and beg.aero for Belgrade airport.
Before a guide is published, an automated check reads those operator pages and fails the build if a number from the title, the lead, or the tables can’t be found on any of them. Aggregators, booking sites, and other blogs don’t count as the source for a number, even when they happen to be right. Figures are still guidelines as of the check date: confirm the fare, the deposit, or the ticket price on the operator’s page before you pay.
Photos and sources
Photos come from Wikimedia Commons, under free licenses or in the public domain. Under each image you will find the author, the license, and a link to the original file, so a photo can be traced back the same way a number can.
We don’t reprint ratings or review counts from booking platforms: that is their data, and their rules forbid copying it. A rating is a selection filter for us, not content. To see the current reviews, follow the link to the source or the map.
How the guide is made
Research and first drafts are done with AI tools. An editor sets the brief, checks the facts against the sources, and decides what gets published; nothing goes live without that pass. Every guide shows the date of its last check or update, and a guide is revisited when a price, a timetable, or a rule moves.
Serbia Guidebook is one of a family of twelve country guides run on the same editorial system, with the same rules for sources, photos, and checking. The project is made by A. Kobtsev, whose name is in the footer of every page.
How the project is funded
Some links on the site are affiliate links: car rental, accommodation, tours, insurance, connectivity. If you follow such a link and book something, we get a small commission from the service. The price for you stays the same, and the project exists and is updated on these funds.
Partnership doesn’t affect selection: a place makes it into the guide for its merits and checked details, not because it has an affiliate program. If it’s better or more honest to recommend an option without an affiliate link, we recommend it.