Viator Partner Blog

New Viator Partner Functions - July 2009

In addition to now offering Viator Partner sites in French, German and Spanish we also made some enhancements to the booking process to increase sales — and commissions to you! New Pricing Grid We now have a much improved pricing grid (linked on the Product page), which shows prices of the tour in true calendar format. Plus [...]

CSS Update - July 2009

We are happy to announce some new functionality on our partner sites. If you have changed the standard theme on your partner site, you may want to personalize this new functionality as well.

Viator Partner Program in the News

Goodbye Old Platform - Hello New Platform

(originally posted 11 April 2009 — updated  19 May 2009) As we have mentioned in the past, we have moved all active partners to the new Viator Partner Platform. The old affiliate platform has been retired as of early April 2009. For active partners there are THREE very important steps to take: 1- REPLACE LINKS - Please replace [...]

Viator Travel Agent Booking Options

DataFeeds Update - 16April 2009

Based on a number of Partner requests we are enhancing the Partner XML and CSV Product feeds in the next release (16April2009). Here is a summary of the changes: <ProductText> - ProductText contains a short text description of the Product <Introduction> - Introduction will contain the longer text description of the Product We have also appended specials text to [...]

Have a Cruise Site? Sell Shore Excursions!

We have updated our Shore Excursion product offerings for the upcoming Cruise season and now offer exciting shorex “things to do” in the Caribbean, Alaska, Mexico, Europe and other destinations! All shore excursion activities are specially selected for Cruise Passengers by our Product Managers.

Best Performing Pages for March 2009

Here are some of the best performing Viator Partner pages for the Month of March: Note: Be sure to replace 9999 with your three or four digit PUID number. Destination Pages: Paris - http://www.partner.viator.com/en/9999/Paris/d479-ttd Rome - http://www.partner.viator.com/en/9999/Rome/d511-ttd Las Vegas - http://www.partner.viator.com/en/9999/Las-Vegas/d684-ttd New York City- http://www.partner.viator.com/en/9999/New-York-City/d687-ttd Product Pages: All American Helicopter Tour - http://www.partner.viator.com/en/9999/tours/Las-Vegas/Grand-Canyon-All-American-Helicopter-Tour/d684-2280AAHT Skip the Line Vatican Tour - http://www.partner.viator.com/en/9999/tours/Rome/Skip-the-Line-Vatican-Museums-Walking-Tour-including-Sistine-Chapel-Raphaels-Rooms-and-St-Peters/d511-3731VATICAN New York CityPass - [...]

New Ad Banners 125×125

Here are some of our newest Ad banners in the popular 125×125 size for your website. You can find additional  banners within the Viator Partner Admin site, under Marketing Tools => Banners You can place these on your website — and link them back to your Viator Home page or any page within the Viator site. [...]

Custom Feature Pages

The Viator Partner platform offers a great way to highlight any selection of tours using the Custom Feature Page function. This function allows you to assemble a list of tours on a custom page — including a custom URL, Photo, and Page Text.  You can link directly to this page from your website as well. Custom Feature [...]