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May 16, 2018 - 04:18 AM
As an affiliate marketer for the past 5 years, I've found a number of great affiliate programs with reasonable commission percentages. Some as low as 2%, and others as high as 70% from my personal experience. The following travel affiliate/ partner programs are the ones that I personally use.
1. Expedia - is one of the biggest names in the industry today. They even accept bitcoin as payment.
The Expedia Affiliate Network or the EAN assist travelers in finding the best inventory of hotels, flights and vacation packages available. They offer 5% commission for most of their Inventory and you have the potential to earn 50% commission on every hotel reservation and completion of booking and completed stay of the customer. Your customers can check ratings and review of the hotel before making the decision to book.
https://www.ean.com/__home__
2. Hotels Combined - will help your customers access a huge inventory of hotels worldwide. Your customers can compare prices and availability from the best travel sites through links on your website or mobile site.
It offers seamless integration of its hotel inventory with the travel agent’s website so that you do not have additional development costs to your business.
Hotels Combined is well known for high payouts and you can earn anywhere between $1 - $4 per click. You can advertise using private branding (duplicate website which they provide free of charge), banners and data feeds. It's also possible for you to earn multiple times from the same customer.
https://affiliates.hotelscombined.com
3. Priceline Partner Network - Provides a customizable booking engine which suits each partner’s needs. They offer flights, hotels, vacation packages and rental cars.
For airlines you can earn a 3% commission on the bookings, on hotel bookings you can earn 3% to 7% and a 3% earnings can be earned on vacation packages and car rentals.
One downside to the priceline program, is that they do not allow partners to make manual changes in the affiliate control panel.
You must contact the priceline affiliate team to make changes to websites and other changes.
https://pricelinepartnernetwork.com
4. Booking com - Is one of the leading companies for hotel reservations and offers unbeatable prices and does not charge a fee on booking through their website but charges its accommodation partners a small fee.
Its affiliate partner program has a track record of providing great earning potential.
You get paid on each finalized booking.
The commission starts from 25% and goes up to 40% depending on the number of bookings finalized from your website.
https://www.booking.com/affiliate-pro...
5. Viator - This affiliate partner program has a track record of providing great earning potential. You get paid on each finalized bookings. The commission starts from 25% and goes up to 40% depending on the number of bookings finalized from your website.
You get paid once the customer books and travels the sightseeing tour. Viator pays 5% commission after you have accumulated a minimum payment threshold of $100 for checks and $50 for direct deposit or EFT.
You can use popular widgets and feeds as marketing tools to generate more traffic and hence more commissions.
Your customers can browse and book from thousands of attractions, sightseeing tours and transfers in 75+ countries and over 450 destinations across the world on a branded website provided by Viator.com
https://www.partner.viator.com/partne...
Don't be misled or discouraged by the fact that some programs will offer you small percentages. If you have the ability to attract lots of traffic, those numbers add up very quickly.
You may have to get more visitors at 2%- 5% compared to the higher paying affiliate programs that pay 50% or higher, but your checks will show your efforts. For example, in my first two months of advertising Expedia, I received my first $2000 and my traffic is growing steadily.
One very important piece of advice I will share, is that if you want to succeed in travel or any affiliate marketing, you must create your own qaulity content. This content should be in the form of articles, websites or blog reviews. People rarely make money by simply posting affiliate links on social media or using pay per click advertising. So again, you will create repeat visitors and build a loyal following by creating quality, informative content.
In addition, many affiliate/partner programs (including travel affiliate programs) don't allow affiliates to use social media to advertise the links they provide and some don't allow their business name or any variations (similar names) to be used as keywords in your marketing efforts as this is seen as a violation of their terms of service and you are viewed as directly competing with their own marketing efforts, so be sure to read all terms and conditions of the affiliate agreement to avoid forfeiting your potential earnings and/or being removed from the program altogether.
1. Expedia - is one of the biggest names in the industry today. They even accept bitcoin as payment.
The Expedia Affiliate Network or the EAN assist travelers in finding the best inventory of hotels, flights and vacation packages available. They offer 5% commission for most of their Inventory and you have the potential to earn 50% commission on every hotel reservation and completion of booking and completed stay of the customer. Your customers can check ratings and review of the hotel before making the decision to book.
https://www.ean.com/__home__
2. Hotels Combined - will help your customers access a huge inventory of hotels worldwide. Your customers can compare prices and availability from the best travel sites through links on your website or mobile site.
It offers seamless integration of its hotel inventory with the travel agent’s website so that you do not have additional development costs to your business.
Hotels Combined is well known for high payouts and you can earn anywhere between $1 - $4 per click. You can advertise using private branding (duplicate website which they provide free of charge), banners and data feeds. It's also possible for you to earn multiple times from the same customer.
https://affiliates.hotelscombined.com
3. Priceline Partner Network - Provides a customizable booking engine which suits each partner’s needs. They offer flights, hotels, vacation packages and rental cars.
For airlines you can earn a 3% commission on the bookings, on hotel bookings you can earn 3% to 7% and a 3% earnings can be earned on vacation packages and car rentals.
One downside to the priceline program, is that they do not allow partners to make manual changes in the affiliate control panel.
You must contact the priceline affiliate team to make changes to websites and other changes.
https://pricelinepartnernetwork.com
4. Booking com - Is one of the leading companies for hotel reservations and offers unbeatable prices and does not charge a fee on booking through their website but charges its accommodation partners a small fee.
Its affiliate partner program has a track record of providing great earning potential.
You get paid on each finalized booking.
The commission starts from 25% and goes up to 40% depending on the number of bookings finalized from your website.
https://www.booking.com/affiliate-pro...
5. Viator - This affiliate partner program has a track record of providing great earning potential. You get paid on each finalized bookings. The commission starts from 25% and goes up to 40% depending on the number of bookings finalized from your website.
You get paid once the customer books and travels the sightseeing tour. Viator pays 5% commission after you have accumulated a minimum payment threshold of $100 for checks and $50 for direct deposit or EFT.
You can use popular widgets and feeds as marketing tools to generate more traffic and hence more commissions.
Your customers can browse and book from thousands of attractions, sightseeing tours and transfers in 75+ countries and over 450 destinations across the world on a branded website provided by Viator.com
https://www.partner.viator.com/partne...
Don't be misled or discouraged by the fact that some programs will offer you small percentages. If you have the ability to attract lots of traffic, those numbers add up very quickly.
You may have to get more visitors at 2%- 5% compared to the higher paying affiliate programs that pay 50% or higher, but your checks will show your efforts. For example, in my first two months of advertising Expedia, I received my first $2000 and my traffic is growing steadily.
One very important piece of advice I will share, is that if you want to succeed in travel or any affiliate marketing, you must create your own qaulity content. This content should be in the form of articles, websites or blog reviews. People rarely make money by simply posting affiliate links on social media or using pay per click advertising. So again, you will create repeat visitors and build a loyal following by creating quality, informative content.
In addition, many affiliate/partner programs (including travel affiliate programs) don't allow affiliates to use social media to advertise the links they provide and some don't allow their business name or any variations (similar names) to be used as keywords in your marketing efforts as this is seen as a violation of their terms of service and you are viewed as directly competing with their own marketing efforts, so be sure to read all terms and conditions of the affiliate agreement to avoid forfeiting your potential earnings and/or being removed from the program altogether.
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