[helsby]

Dan is right; 60% of what? Commission should really only be judged based upon the % of the total selling price versus your ppc cost/marketing cost to generate traffic.

Number of hotels is subjective to what marketing method your trying to push. A comparison site might look great with 40,000 hotels but in reality the consumer is more likley to buy with a properly segmented reuslt for the location they are searching at competitive prices. So i'd echo Dan in that availability not volume of hotels is much more critical.

Other questions to ask would be telephone support; hotel buyers need help and will you be credited for the telephone sale? Is there support at times when people need it (evenings and early mornings pre office opening hours?)

Your critical decisions will have to be based upon what form of affiliation you want to take (white label, code integration, content building or just ppc push to a brand site).

There are plenty of more fully integrated affiliate programmes out there rather than the sites that are offering to share their commisison with you; this after all puts you lower down the food chain than if you are getting a share with a principle such as Alpharooms, Superbreak et al. My vested interest is of course Superbreak!