Dear all,

Just a reminder that The Co-operative Travel are paying an additional 2% commission on holiday bookings, until the 14th Sep 2009. That gives you just 4 days to take advantage!

This means that the incentive rate of 5% for package will return to 3% respectively.

If you need more info on The Co-operative Travel, what’s selling and what to push, read on.....


About Co-operative Travel

The Co-operative Travel is the UK’s largest independent travel agent and is also part of the world’s largest consumer co-operative - The Co-operative Group.Their size and independence allows them to offer customers a wide range of holidays at exceptional value. The Co-operative Travel sell holidays from all of the UK's top travel companies such as Thomas Cook and TUI, as well as flights from charter, scheduled and low cost airlines and hotels from the industries leading hotel providers – Hotels4U, Med Hotels and Holiday Brokers . They also boast a vast array of city breaks, ski holidays and much more. The consumer has the ability to search “dynamically” and build their own holiday or select a pre packaged holiday. This makes them a one stop for travel.

The Co-operative Travel has recently launched its own “tour operator” featuring a wide range of summer 2010 holiday packages. The brochure features summer 2010 holidays in the Balearics, Canaries, Mainland Spain, Portugal, Turkey, Greece, Cyprus, Egypt, Florida and Mexico.


Current consumer offers

October half term: The Co-operative Travel appreciates that school holiday – holidays, are often very expensive and its not that easy to find a great deal.... Therefore, we would like to help you out.

They have set up the following page on Co-operative Travel, housing all of their very best deals for the October half term break. These include offers for less than £200pp (subject to availability). Deals located here: http://www.co-operativetravel.co.uk/...term-holidays/


Late Deals: Aside from the half term promotions, The Co-operative travel also has some fabulous late deals, travelling in September and October (excluding the half term). Prices from £145pp (again subject to availability) Deals located here: http://www.co-operativetravel.co.uk/...-deal-holidays . September and October late deals are VERY popular at present, accounting for 80% of total bookings!


Summer 2010: Now is the best time for consumers to book their 2010 summer holidays – whilst the discounts are strong and the deposits are low. For full details of all they have to offer, visit: http://www.co-operativetravel.co.uk/exclusives


Ski Season is on its way... watch this space for details of The Co-operative Travel ski offering, incentives and more...



So why promote Co-operative Travel?

Commission rates
Package holidays & Flight + hotel holidays, City breaks, Ski, Disney flight & hotel, Disney hotel , Hotels, Villa’s and UK break – all pay 3%. Flight Only = 1%.
Deliver 20+ sales in a month and you will receive 4% commission on the incremental sales.

For info
- 80% of online bookings = hotel and flight / package holidays.
- The average basket value for hotel and flight / package holidays is £1,050 giving you an earning potential of £31.50 per booking (at 3%).

Programme resource - Destination and resort level landing pages
- Hotel stock list and deep links (ongoing process – more coming soon)
- Dedicated in house Affiliate Manager and account manager via AffiliateFuture

Coming Soon
- Full suite of Hotel level landing pages
- Integration into AffiliateFuture Travel web services (allowing you access to live inventory via the AF Holiday search boxes). Estimated live date – Sep 09.
- HTML / I-frame search panels.


If you would like any information on the programme, or with to provide feedback – please contact:

AffiliateFuture: Victoria.mcquillan@affiliatefuture.co.uk

Co-operative Travel: Claire.court@co-operativetravel.co.uk


To Sign up to the programme, click here


Thanks and happy promoting!

AffiliateFuture and The Co-operative Travel group.