Selection follows the decision, not the commission.

• Clear relevance to a defined travel problem or category.
• An exact purchasable variant with enough primary-source evidence to normalize.
• Meaningful comparison value against products already in the catalog.
• Real official imagery with recorded provenance and a defensible editorial-use basis.
• Availability in a market Travistello can describe accurately.

• Candidate: internal record only, with unresolved evidence or media gates.
• Research preview: public facts and imagery, with scoring still incomplete.
• Published research: normalized specs, evidence, limitations, and a versioned scorecard.
• Hands-on or hybrid: physical observations are added with their test context.
• Pick eligible: the evidence threshold for a recommendation has been met. This is not automatic.

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