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Everything you need to write about Fat Voyage accurately.
Fat Voyage is an independent editorial publication covering the top end of luxury travel. Below is the boilerplate, the facts, a founder bio, and the full media kit. For anything you can’t find here, email us — a real reply, from the founder.
Here on behalf of a hotel?
If you’re a GM, brand director, or PR contact — at a hotel we cover or one you think we should — the hoteliers page explains how we work together on imagery, direct bookings, and a Founders’ Verdict.
AI visibility
Where fat.voyage shows up in AI answers
Ask an AI where to stay in Paris and you get a handful of hotels back — that handful is the shortlist, drawn from the small set of sources it cites. How often a publication is one of those sources is almost never measured, let alone published. We measure ours every week, with the method printed underneath.
Every Wednesday we run 163 real luxury-hotel questions — where to stay, one hotel against another, the best in a city — through 5 AI platforms and record where fat.voyage is cited. This week: 7.6% of tracked questions cite fat.voyage in their answer.
Estimated monthly reach in AI answers
Updated Jul 29 · refreshed weekly
How the estimate works: answer-appearances per month = 80M travellers × 55% AI use × 1.5 trips/yr ÷ 12 months × 6 queries/trip, times our measured citation rate — assuming the 163 tracked questions stand for 1% (conservative) or 5% (regular) of the ways people really phrase these questions. The reach curves are a model with its assumptions shown here; the citation rate underneath them is measured, every week, and this chart updates from those runs automatically.
Boilerplate
Approved descriptions, ready to paste. The standard way to describe us — we’d be grateful if you used one of these verbatim.
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Fat Voyage is an independent editorial publication that scores the world’s finest luxury hotels.
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Fat Voyage is an independent editorial publication covering the world’s finest luxury hotels. Every hotel earns a Fat Score, synthesized from luxury-travel communities, editorial publications, and verified guest reviews, never from paid placements.
Full (≈90 words)
Fat Voyage is an independent editorial publication covering the world’s finest luxury hotels. Every hotel earns a Fat Score from 0 to 10, synthesized from three kinds of real evidence: trip reports from luxury-travel communities, established editorial publications, and verified guest reviews, each weighted by credibility, depth, and recency, and refreshed quarterly. Hotels can’t pay to be included or to raise a score. Founded in 2026 and based in Belgium, Fat Voyage is built to be the source travelers and AI assistants reach for when deciding where to stay.
Fast facts
- Founded
- 2026
- Based in
- Belgium
- Publisher
- Brightful BV
- What it is
- An independent editorial publication and curation of luxury hotels
- The Fat Score
- A 0–20 editorial rating across five dimensions — Service, Design, Location, Dining, and Wellness
- Sources
- Luxury-travel communities, editorial publications, and verified guest reviews
- Tiers
- Fat Legend (18.0+), Fat Favorite (17.0–17.5), Fat Approved (16.0–16.5)
- Refreshed
- Quarterly
- Independence
- No paid placements — hotels can’t pay for inclusion or a higher score
- Collection
- 110+ luxury hotels
- Founder
- Nicolas Van Hoorde
Data & reports
Original analysis drawn from the Fat Score corpus — free to cite with attribution to Fat Voyage. Need a custom data pull for a story? Email us.
Founder
Nicolas Van Hoorde — he built Fat Voyage, and writes every verdict on it.
Sofie, who travels with Nicolas for every Founders’ Verdict.
Nicolas Van Hoorde
Nicolas Van Hoorde is the founder of Fat Voyage. He comes from a startup background rather than the travel industry — he previously founded Delta, an investment-tracking app acquired by eToro.
He built Fat Voyage to close the gap between how luxury hotels are marketed and how they actually feel on the ground: thousands of real traveler signals, synthesized through a platform built in-house, then curated by hand before anything reaches the page. A proper product, run with editorial intent.
Founders’ Verdicts, the first-person accounts written after a stay, are a two-person job: Sofie, his partner, travels with him, and each verdict is built as a pair and published under his name.
For interviews, commentary on luxury-travel trends, or custom data pulls from the Fat Score, get in touch below.
Assets & media kit
For high-resolution photography or anything specific, email us and we’ll send it over.
Press inquiries
Get in touch.
Questions, interview requests, or data from the Fat Score for a story — we read every email personally.
Email usOr copy: hellofat [dot] voyage