Best Travel Affiliate Programs to Quadruple Your Blog Income:
Booking.com is a popular name in the travel industry.
They also have an affiliate partner program that is open for anyone with a blog/website, an app, or a travel agency. As long as you can offer the best choice of accommodations, this program is for you.
Highlights:
- Free & easy sign-up process.
- Offers search box, deep linking, and banner integration options.
- They have an offer-based, commission split model.
- Minimum payout €100.
- Payout mode is PayPal (create a PayPal account).
- You can integrate Booking.com’s search box on a WordPress blog by using this official plugin.
When someone is planning a trip, they usually check out TripAdvisor for reviews, recommendations, and bookings.
Getting on this affiliate program will be valuable as you can source content from their website and link your readers back to the original content through your tracking link.
Highlights:
- 50% commission.
- Deep linking to over 500,000 cities & hotels.
- Tiered commission structure.
- Monthly payout.
With over a quarter million properties, Agoda definitely deserves to be in this mega list of travel blog affiliate programs.
Their in-house affiliate program is open for everyone to join (but it’s mandatory to have a website/blog).
The approval is a manual process & takes about 48-72 hours.
Highlights:
- Up to 60% commission on margin.
- Offers search box, text links & data feeds.
- Use hotel power ads to increase your revenue by 3x.
- Minimum payout $200.
- Payout mode is direct bank transfer.
Note: Agoda’s affiliate program can also be joined using ShareASale.
Skyscanner is one website that I always use when checking the price of a flight.
If you have never used them, you should download their mobile app & I promise you won’t be disappointed.
For your travel blog, Skyscanner offers various options. The one that you might want to start with is the Travel Widget.
You can use this widget in your sidebar or around the content where you are more likely to have users take an action. This widget will redirect them to the Skyscanner site.
If you want to take it to the next level, you can hire a developer & use the Skyscanner travel API to build your own search functionality on your website or mobile app.
Highlights:
- Offers white-label solutions for offering flight searches on your website.
- One of the most popular travel affiliate program APIs.
- Flight booking widget for your sidebar.
- One of the best & most detailed reference systems to help you get started.
- Supports flight bookings, hotel bookings, and rental cars.
Referral programs & affiliate programs are two sides of the same coin.
In
a referral program, instead of earning hard cash, you earn points (or
other non-monetary value) which you can utilize to buy products on the
same network.
Here is an infographic from Refferalcandy that explains the differences & similarities:
AirB&B has a very popular referral program that helps you to earn decent “money” by referring other users.
You can earn up to $72 for every successful referral & a maximum of $5,000 USD travel credit per account.
Highlights:
- Easy to share referral link as a user will also get AirB&B credits worth $18.
- A well known name in the travel industry.
- Good for travel income.
Note: You
might want to have a look at other popular apps (such as Lyft, Uber,
HotelsTonight) which also offer referral programs.
6. ShareASale
ShareASale is an affiliate marketplace where you can find top affiliate programs in any niche.
Many
of the popular travel airlines, hotels, and services (such as Qatar
Airways, Agoda, The Lalit Hotels, Riu Hotels, etc.) are available via
ShareASale.
If you have never used ShareASale before, the navigation may be confusing at the beginning.
Highlights:
- Payment via direct bank deposit.
- Easier to reach minimum payout than in-house affiliate programs.
- See the top performing affiliate programs in every niche.