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We often get asked about the best Travel Affiliate programs available for Travel-focused websites.

Here is a short list of our favorite travel partner programs available today. These programs allow you to earn commission by selling travel products, including air tickets, hotel rooms, rental cars and more!

ACTIVITIES / SIGHTSEEING- Viator.com

Viator is the #1 largest and trusted source of Sightseeing activities and Tours (online since 1999 with over 1.5 million transactions completed). We offer over 6,000 sightseeing products in over 400 destinations worldwide – all available to book online!

Affiliate program highlights:
- Easy Integration - plus marketing support available
- Earn a new unique revenue stream with tours and activities
- No set-up costs or monthly account fees
- True white label solution available in English, Spanish, German and French.

More Information:
http://www.partner.viator.com/partner/home.jspa

CAR RENTALS - Cartrawler.com

“Generating immediate revenue, the fully customizable CarTrawler™ technology offers real-time access to car rental availability and seamless integration with the Partner’s website through a multi-lingual AJAX Booking Engine.”

CarTrawler™ provides proven technology to generate revenue through implementing a stand-alone booking engine solution for car rental in the travel industry or dynamically packaged with your existing product suite. Customers can choose to use their own branding whilst offering a seamless transaction for the customers.

More Information:
http://www.cartrawler.com/partnersaffiliate.asp

HOTELS - Hotelscombined.com

Access more hotels. 200,000 hotels in 20,000 destinations across 195 countries. Do what’s best for your users. We simultaneously search all major inventory sources, we find the best price and availability option - your users will love this system.
-  Target the world. We support 14 languages and 118 currencies.
-  Integrate on your terms. General and deep text links, static and animated banners, interactive search boxes, private branding (white label), XML data feeds, CSV data feeds and a full scale XML-API.
-  Get real help fast. Dedicated professional technical and business support.
-  Enjoy a peace of mind. With our 100% uptime guarantee, in an unlikely event of a downtime, you will still get paid pro rata commissions.
-  Do it now. It’s free to join and you will be approved instantly.

More Information:
http://hotelscombined.com/Affiliates.aspx

HOTELS - Booking.com

Booking.com is Europe’s leading online hotel reservations company, currently offering over 71000 directly contracted hotels at competitive room rates.

Our affiliate partner program has a demonstrated track record of great earning potential. The commission-based model we use with our hotels is the preferred sales model in the hotel industry and guarantees a long-term, mutually beneficial business relationship with the hotels.

More Information:
http://www.booking.com/general.html?sid=f79904c8427c3037f276e9be41e94085;tmpl=docs/affiliates

HOTELS - Priceline.com

Priceline Private Label Hotel Affiliate Program – NEW!

We’re proud to introduce our new hotel affiliate program – the Priceline Partner Network. The Priceline Partner Network hotel affiliate program is a highly customizable private label hotel affiliate product. Become a member of the Priceline Partner Network and you’ll be offering Priceline.com hotels and products including Name Your Own Pricesm in your brand, look, and feel.

* Fully Customizable – Finally, a private label solution that is fully customizable. Every part of the system can be tailored, tweaked, and modified to meet your needs. Our resume includes over 500 travel websites, powered by the Priceline Partner Network hotel affiliate program, making us the ideal choice to help you develop your online travel business.
* High Commissions – Earn better payouts. We start at the top and go from there.
* Great Hotel Inventory – Over 60,000 hotels worldwide.
* Free – Completely free to join with no hidden fees!

More Information (US Partners):
http://travel.priceline.com/affiliates/priceline_private_label_hotel_affiliate_program.asp

More Information (European Program):
http://travel.priceline.com/affiliates/pricelineeurope_hotel_affiliate_program.asp

TRAVEL META SEARCH- Kayak.com

There are a lot of ways to turn your web traffic into revenue. If visitors to your web site are likely to be travel shoppers, then a Kayak affiliate program is a really good way to do it. If you don’t have a travel-oriented audience, then this program is probably not for you.

How do you know if your visitors are going to be interested in travel products and comparison shopping? The biggest influence is the content of your site. Our most successful affiliate sites are:

- user-generated travel review sites
- travel blogs
- hotel and resorts web sites
-  travel agents
- airports
- newspaper/TV site travel sections
-  professional travel guides
-  portals

More Information:
http://www.kayak.com/help/affiliate.html