OCTOPUSTRAVEL.COM AFFILIATE PROGRAMME

Travel is the largest and fastest growing business on the internet. If you operate a web site that attracts visitors who are researching travel or who are interested in booking travel arrangements on line OctopusTravel.com offers you the chance to earn commissions for bookings made by those visitors. All you need to do is complete our online application and place a link on your web site... it's that easy!

When your web site visitors click through on our link and make an online booking, we pay you a commission on the value of that booking. For example, a typical 5 night hotel booking is worth an average of £320 (approx. 455 Euro), meaning you would earn a minimum of £16 (22.75 Euro) from such a sale. Many travel sites offer a flat fee for bookings, which means you need many bookings to earn the same amount of money!

• Generous commission. We offer an impressive minimum commission rate of 5% on all bookings, with higher levels for affiliates who regularly produce significant sales volumes. Our average booking value is £220 (approx. 313 Euro), which would earn you a minimum commission of £11 (15.65 Euro), for each and every booking.
• Regular payments. We pay on a monthly basis for a minimum £50 (70 Euro) commission. If you have not reached £50 (70 Euro) within the calendar quarter we will pay your commission regardless of the amount.
• 45 day return date period. This means you still get the commission for any user who makes a booking within 45 days of clicking through to OctopuTravel from your site - even if they return and book it directly. Most programmes offer zero days.
• No set up fees.
• Customisation. For selected affiliates, based upon projected volume of bookings, we are open to discuss customisation of our site to give it your look and feel.
• Easy to track your sales and commissions. Just login to our affiliate pages for up-to-date reports on your bookings and commissions.

octopustravel.com was launched in Europe, Asia and the US in 2001 and has proved a hit with internet-savvy travellers. Here's why:

• 19,000 hotels and over 1000 sightseeing products worldwide at discounted prices. We have a team of 100+ travel professionals worldwide, negotiating the best rates with each hotel we and sightseeing product sell.
• Price Promise. We are confident we have the best prices on the internet. If your customers can find a lower price, we will match it. Subject to a few reasonable conditions.
• Instant Confirmations. Most hotel bookings are confirmed immediately. We include detailed hotel reports, pictures and maps to make choosing the right hotel an easy process.
• Rooms for sold out dates. In most instances we pre-buy hotel rooms to make sure we can still confirm requests, even when everyone else is sold out.
• Independent hotel reports. We provide unbiased in depth reports of the hotels and in many cases also include pictures and local maps.
• No hidden extras. The prices on our site include taxes, service charges and in most European hotels we include breakfast.

1. Fill out our on line Affiliate Application. Please be sure to advise us of any additional information that may assist us to assess your application, particularly if you believe you will be producing significant sales volumes that may entitle you to higher commission levels.
   
   
2. Read our Agreement Terms submit the application to us.
   
   
3. We will review your application (usually within 5 business days) and if you are successful we will e-mail you with details of your personal account manager, your user name and password and advise where to pick up your links to start earning money.