Hi Guys and Girls.
I have a couple of questions about setting up a Hotel Affiliate Program and whether it is worthwhile, do you mind helping me out with your feedback. I
am interested in setting up a Hotels Booking Site initially with approx 7,000 (mostly European) hotels and
am considoring setting it up for affiliates - I dont have the option of XML to affiliates at present but this would be planned much further down the line possibly, initially the following would be on offer:
- Deeplinks into hotel and search facility of that hotel
- Search Box to add into your site
- Basic 8% commission but the belief that prices would be more competitive than other sites therefore increasing your conversion.
- Simple Booking Process
- No Phone Number on site except on Contact Us Page
Now the key question is, is it better to set this up inhouse or go down the CJ.com route for example - from an affiliates or merchants perspective. Also a lot of bookings get cancelled/amended by consumers how is this dealt with by the network? Generally would affiliates get commission after travel on CJ.com?
Any thoughts and ideas on this would be greatly appreciated, many thanks!
