For me, traveling is freedom.
If you are a travel blogger, I give you a standing ovation. Being a digital nomad, I understand how tough it is to blog while traveling. I also know that it’s even tougher to monetize your travel blog.
There are many travel bloggers who often get sponsorship for traveling (like free trips with all expenses covered), but not everyone is so lucky at the beginning of their blogging career.
Travel blogging is a popular & profitable niche that can generate great amounts of revenue using various monetization methods.
Some of the most popular monetization methods are:
- Google AdSense
- Ezoic
- Direct ad sales
- Selling eBooks
- Merchandise sales
- Affiliate marketing*
* Today I will be telling you about some of the top travel blog affiliate programs.
This is a one-of-a-kind list of travel affiliate programs & I hope you make the most out of it.
If you are already well-versed in the art of affiliate marketing, then read on for the complete list of affiliate programs for travel blogs.
Best Travel Affiliate Programs to Quadruple Your Blog Income:
1. Travelpayouts Partnership Platform
Travelpayouts is the most convenient and profitable way to monetize a travel blog. On the platform, you can partner with 100 affiliate programs from the most trusted travel brands — Booking.com, TripAdvisor, Aviasales, Expedia, and others. You will see clicks, bookings, and commissions for all programs on one dashboard and receive a single monthly payout for all programs.
Highlights:
- 100 travel affiliate programs in one place
- Wide range of tools including deep links, unique widgets, API, and others
- Transparent statistics
- Helpful support available 24/7
- Minimum payout $50 through PayPal
2. Booking.com Affiliate Program
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.
3. TripAdvisor Affiliate Program
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.
Note: Tripadvisor program is available via CJ. You can get free Commission junction training here.
4. Travala Affiliate Program
As cryptocurrency is gaining popularity, it is a good time to promote a travel website that accepts payment in cryptocurrencies. Travala is one such platform that offers crypto friendly bookings, and they offer a lucrative affiliate program where you can earn income in cryptocurrencies.
This program is free to join for everyone and the base program offers a 5% commission on every travel booking done from your affiliate link. The best part, you will be getting paid in cryptocurrencies, which makes it another popular crypto affiliate program.
You can find the link to join the Affiliate program of Travala at the bottom of their homepage.
5. Agoda Affiliate Program
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.
6. Skyscanner Affiliate Program
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.
7. AirB&B Referral Program
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.
8. 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.
9. Amazon Associates
Whenever I research or compile an exclusive niche-based affiliate program list like this, it is always incomplete without Amazon’s affiliate program.
Amazon is the top destination for online buying. They have an amazing reputation and will help you earn great amounts of money in no time.
Once you join the Amazon Associates program, you can link to any of the products listed on Amazon & earn money across the entire site.
What’s really cool about the Amazon affiliate program is you will earn money whenever a referred user purchases any product from Amazon. That is, it doesn’t just have to be the product you sent them to.
Highlights:
- Highly reputed network.
- Getting started is easy and you will find tons of guides & videos.
- Numerous products related to travelers & traveling.
- Higher commission as you start referring more users.
Tip: If you find it time-consuming to create links for individual products, you can use Viglink to make the process easier. You can learn more about Viglink here & join here.
Other popular travel website & services offering affiliate programs:
If you have not joined any of the above-listed travel affiliate programs, then you should do that right now.
This list is currently up to date, but to make it complete, it requires your contribution!
Do let us know of any other popular affiliate programs for the travel niche that you would recommend to other travel bloggers. Make sure you use a link cloaking plugin to make your affiliate links user-friendly.
I look forward to reading your tips & insightful ideas in the comments section below.
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In present era Affiliate programs becomes a huge way of online earning even better than adsense and other earning sources. but at the same time generation good sale and traffic is a tough task….
Hi harsh,
Very detailed post. I am getting excited knowing how much affiliate programe are there for the travel blog. Thanks for the collection and sharing through shoutmeloud.
Great Regards
shajeer
This is an excellent post. More and more people are starting travel blogs that they need to understand the best ways to monetize their sites. I didn’t realize that AirB&B hand one.
Booking.com is an awesome affiliate program for travel blogs and you have given this as top priority. Other than that, I have learnt a very important thing which is the difference between referral program vs affiliate marketing. Great share without any doubt. Thank You.
Hi harsh,
I run a tech blog . Although it is a new blog, i have started two months ago, but i am getting decent traffic, in 10 days approx I got my Alexa rank in India from around 1 lakh to 46 thousand, so I am thinking to do some affiliate marketing. So can you please kindly tell me the best affiliate marketing sources for tech blog?
Good, I have been using Amazon in these lists. But harsh do you think all these travel affiliate will work ?
@Venugopal
These are global site & should work. However, you should pick one based on the location of your website traffic.
I have to ask something: I have a fashion&lifestyle blog. It is possible to be an affiliate for booking and at the same time, to become affiliate for tripadvisor ? It.s ok, for their Affiliate Contract.s therms? This is not a conflict of interests and I could be punished for this? Thanks and please, Harsh , I really need an answer from you. All my respects! Danielle
Hey Cliche,
Yup, it is absolutely fine to be an affilate of both the sites at the same time. There is no conflict of interest.
Hello there!
this is a very useful article and Once we have that targeted traffic, it’s time to do some monetizing activities around the blog. Truth is that most will always depend on the expertise of others to know what works and what doesn’t thanks for sharing a great post.
Thats a great guide to make money from affiliate marketing in Travel niche. I am using shareasale affiliate marketing platform and really found them as best place for various affiliate marketing companies in any niche. Although the life of travel bloggers are hectic, but I think they are living the awesome life many of us are dreaming to live.
The thing to remember is that the commissions are paid as a percentage of the company’s profit. Not of the sale. So 50% on a hotel booking of $100 isn’t $50. It’s usually just a couple of bucks.
It’s a very competitive niche and you have to be passionate about traveling to succeed.
These are definitely great affiliate programs for beginners but some programs will take down your account if new bloggers find hard to generate sales.
Awesome suggestions. I think affiliate program is best place for earning. Adsense give me a little cent. thank for your great post.
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You are a great inspiration to me. I followed you on twitter just about two weeks ago and I will keep my self updated on your contents henceforth. Thanks
You’re a true blogging scientist, this is another great informative post from Harsh. Thank you for this great list of affiliate programs for travel.
Awesome article!! much descriptive! It is very helpful for the passionate travel blogger like us.
Thanks a ton!!
It’s really a well-written article , Harsh kindly write an article on Best Affiliate Program for Tech Blogs
Awesome post to help travel bloggers make money Harsh.
Now, know it’s always difficult to get to that point where your blog can sponsor itself and help you clear some of your bills.
Once we have that targeted traffic, it’s time to do some monetizing activities around the blog. Truth is that most will always depend on the expertise of others to know what works and what doesn’t.
I think this is great post that puts together a couple of options for travel bloggers to see positive results.
Do have an exciting weekend buddy
I have great passion for travel and so this post is a great inspiration to tie it up with my love for blogging. While the 7 others are directly related to travel, the Amazon affiliate program seems to be generic, not specifically related to travel alone (though a good option for travel bloggers).
I’m bookmarking this.
Harsh Sir, Really great ad networks for travel blogger. Thanks for your detailed and informative post. Thanks for sharing.
Hi Harsh,
These are the good affiliate program for a blogger & any other. HotalCombined is also a good affiliate program in travel & hotel series.
Thanks for this Post!!!
Wow, you just saved my butt. A few times on a different forum I am on, this question has come up and I couldn’t find anything good to reply with that would help that person. This blog post is now the one I will link to in the future. Lot’s of bloggers in this niche because they are experts in it and well love traveling but they find it hard to make money off it other then AdSense which doesn’t always pay well or a long time solution for passive income.
TripAdvisor I use all the time when I am looking to travel. It’s the best place I trust when I am looking to travel out of state. Didn’t even know they had an affiliate program till now. Do you use any above for when you do traveling?
It’s ashame I don’t have the right type of audience to join one of these to try to make money. Lot’s of programs you shared. This helps your subscribers for sure.