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The Caribbean is heating-up again for travel affiliates as unprecedented numbers of hotels and resorts, together with their partner airlines and tour operators, are luring value-driven travelers back with a bevy of discounts, promotions and deals.  The critical question travel affiliates should be asking is: Given this flurry of supplier activity and pricing largesse, am […]

Question: When does the broadening of a major travel supplier’s travel distribution channel result in less revenue opportunities for travel affiliates?  Answer: When the new channel pays affiliates less than the supplier’s existing affiliate program!  This seems to be the case with LeisureLink’s new distribution deal with Priceline when compared to their existing program with […]

Looking for opportunities to increase your travel affiliate sales with online travel agencies (OTAs)?   If yes, Expedia may have the ‘ticket’ to success.  Aiming to get more customers to book on its site, Expedia announced today that it was making permanent its recent promotion of waiving consumer booking fees on all online air tickets booked […]

Question: What do British Airways, Avis Car Rental, Expedia, Carnival Cruise Line, Funjet, InterContinental Hotels, Occidental Hotels, and RIU Hotels and Resorts have in common?  Answer: Each travel supplier has a significant amount of distressed inventory, and all look to their travel affiliate partners to help offload it. Read any travel industry newswire, visit any […]

This week’s musings, reflections and observations… 1.  I think that there is a lot of venture capital money chasing too many travel 2.0 start-ups.   In addition to travel deals discovery search engine voyig.com (which TravelDividends profiled in our May 18th blog post), add Nextstop.com, Dopplr.com, Tripsay.com, Plazes.com and OffbeatGuides.com to the list of the ‘next […]

The travel industry is highly sensitive to consumer trends and competitive dynamics. So Travel Affiliates take note of the following tool to keep an eye on those trends. Regardless of what travel niche you compete in or travel product and service you sell, as a travel affiliate, to stay ahead of your competitors, you should […]

The overall picture for Expedia, Inc. may be a bit cloudy and turbulent, but the opposite seems to be true for Expedia Affiliate Network (EAN), and more specifically, the business prospects for the thousands of travel affiliates that are members of  the online travel agency’s (OTA’s) affiliate network. Expedia Affiliate Network has been on somewhat […]