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.
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Tag Archives: Tour Operator Affiliates
Travel Affiliates Help Travel Suppliers Sell Distressed Inventory
New Travel Affiliate Income Stream From Sandals Resorts
One of the staunchest supporters of travel affiliate marketing, Sandals Resorts, is set to launch a new luxury tour company, Island Routes. Although details about the program are still under wraps, if past history is any indication, Sandals’ new tour operator could bring in a strong and steady income stream to those travel affiliates that [...]
Tour Operator & Wholesaler Programs
Empirical data about the U.S. tour operator industry is sparse, and in some cases conflicting. Many industry observers peg total 2007 sales for the traditional package tour market at about $12 billion, though others suggest that it may be as large as $28 billion. The US Tour Operators Association (USTOA) stated in 2007 that its [...]


