10 Best Affiliate Programs For Travel Bloggers In 2024

Last Updated on 4th January 2024

This post about the best affiliate programs for travel bloggers contains affiliate links.

Affiliate: A marketing arrangement by which an online retailer pays a commission to an external website for traffic or sales generated from its referrals.

As a travel blogger, one of the best ways you can earn money doing something you love is via affiliate links.

Don’t get me wrong, it can take a long time to get anywhere with them and I still really only make pennies now, but affiliate marketing is definitely something worth looking into if you want to make money with your travel blog.

With that in mind, I’ve collated a list of the best affiliate programs for travel bloggers. Some of these programs are pretty high earners and you could see yourself earning up to 80% commission on sales, whereas some other programs may only offer you pennies at a time.

It all adds up, however, so if you’re looking to create a side income, or even pursue travel blogging full time, here are my top recommendations of the best travel affiliate programs!

1. Booking.com

Booking.com is arguably my personal favourite affiliate program that I use across my blog.

The affiliate interface is pretty easy to use and you can create your own widgets to add things like search boxes and ‘best deal’ boxes to your website.

The commission rate of 25% is also pretty respectable, so if you refer someone to an expensive hotel page and they book for a week or more, you can earn a pretty penny.

I only recommend hotels through Booking.com if I’ve actually enjoyed staying in them, or if I’d be happy to advise someone to stay somewhere. I also usually include a search box widget (like the one below) in any accommodation-related or travel guide post so that people can search for hotels themselves.

Commission: 25%

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2. Amazon Associates

Of course, Amazon Associates can be used across pretty much every single blogging niche and I’m a firm believer that it’s a great money earner for travel bloggers too.

I use Amazon Associates to recommend things like my beloved backpack, my trusty hiking boots, plus any other travel essentials I’ve used and loved.

You can also make use of the Amazon SiteStripe which is the easiest and best way to link to any page on Amazon. You simply find the product/page you want to link to and then copy and paste the text and/or image link into your website.

As I’m sure you know, Amazon is teeming with thousands of products to link to, so any kind of travel blogger is sure to find products relevant to their niche.

The key with affiliate marketing of course, is to not stuff your blog with links in the hope that someone will click on them and buy something. You have to build trust and only recommend products and services that you actually recommend and love.

Commission: Up to 12%

3. Blossom Themes

Blossom Themes is a fairly recent affiliate program addition to my roster but after purchasing the Blossom Travel Pro theme a few months ago and absolutely falling in love with it, I knew that I wanted to share it with you guys too.

My whole blog is created with the Blossom Travel Pro theme and it’s undoubtedly the best theme I’ve ever had on my blog; as soon as I saw it, it just felt like ‘me’.

Blossom Themes also have an affiliate program so they’re ideal for any kind of blogger as they sell so many themes for niches of all kinds, but I’d particularly recommend them for travel bloggers as it’s a great way to show off your blog while earning commission on theme referrals too!

The commission you can earn on referrals is also absolutely unbelievable.

Commission: a whopping 55%!

4. Get Your Guide

Get Your Guide is another one of my absolute favourite affiliate programs as I love how easy it is to use and integrate links into your website.

While the commission rate isn’t overwhelmingly great, it does allow you to recommend tours and activities that you’ve experienced yourself and that you thoroughly enjoy.

There are numerous ways to add your affiliate code into your blog, including simple links, search widget boxes, activity widgets and city widgets.

Usually, I recommend tours that I’ve actually been on in relevant posts and then I’ll add a search box into specific city guides whereby people can search for the top recommended tours themselves.

Commission: 8%

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5. World Nomads – best affiliate programs for travel bloggers

I only became an affiliate partner of World Nomads fairly recently after hearing about them for years.

The recent events of Coronavirus are just another reminder of how important travel insurance is and with World Nomads being listed as one of the top insurance providers on hundreds of sites, I have every confidence in recommending them to my readers.

The commission rate is only 10% which might not seem like an awful lot, but if you can encourage your readers to invest in a travel insurance policy (which they should always have when travelling, anyway) then you certainly have the potential to earn a fair amount of profit in terms of commission.

Commission: 10%

6. TripAdvisor

TripAdvisor’s affiliate program is actually done through Awin which is a global affiliate marketing network full of some of the top brands and businesses in the world.

In order to join the TripAdvisor program, you need to be a member of the Awin network first.

Once you’ve joined, you can enjoy numerous affiliate benefits including up to 80% commission on incentive campaigns, as well as 50% commission of hotel revenue generated when users click-through to TripAdvisor’s hotel partners.

Commission: up to 80%

7. 12Go Asia – affiliate programs for travel bloggers

Before I discovered Bookaway and started working with them on a freelance basis, we booked a lot of our transport and trips in Asia through 12Go Asia.

Their affiliate partner platform is relatively easy to use as you simply just copy and paste the URL you want to link to and it generates your affiliate link for you to use on your site.

There are hundreds of transport routes you can link to and earn a decent commission rate of up to 50%.

Commission: up to 50%

8. Bookaway

As I mentioned above, I have an ongoing freelance partnership with Bookaway so I get a lot of my bus/train/minivan journeys in Southeast Asia for free.

However, I am also a member of the Bookaway affiliate partnership and while the commission rate is only 5%, if you use a lot of Bookaway journeys on your travels and recommend them on your blog, you have the potential to earn a nice bit of commission from them.

Commission: 5%

9. Klook

Klook is another affiliate network similar to Get Your Guide and Viator (see below) that enables you to add links, search boxes and dynamic widgets to your post in order to earn a commission.

While the commission rate is only 2-5%, many of Klook’s tours are quite high-priced so you have plenty of opportunities to earn money from high-paying tours.

Commission: 2-5%

10. Viator – best affiliate programs for travel bloggers

Similarly to Klook and Get Your Guide, Viator is another affiliate program for travel bloggers that allows you to recommend many tours and activities all over the world.

You can create your own links to various tour pages and you can also use one of the many pre-existing banners and widgets via the affiliate partner platform.

Commission: 8%

And there you have it! Some of my favourite affiliate programs for travel bloggers!

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Do you have any other recommendations for the best affiliate programs for travel bloggers? Let me know in the comments or on Instagram at @imjustagirl_16.