1.5–4%
Listed products/brands only; flights and cruises unlisted.
Net Transaction Value / Rental Amount; completed verified trips. Actual account terms govern; public 7-day tracking and 60–150-day post-trip payment help have conditions.2,37 days
Public 7-day booking window, same-device requirement and same-brand eligible purchases. Help last-affiliate-link wording is qualified by broader contract last-action/other-online-Channel exclusion. Exact accepted return-channel, cookie/app/device recovery remains unconfirmed.4,3,2
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Is Expedia Group a fit for your travel site?
Consider the Travel Creator affiliate programme for content that helps readers choose stays, activities and trip components across its listed brands. Expedia, Hotels.com and Vrbo-family sites have different product and booking-site coverage.1,2
Plan for delayed receipts: booking commissions require completed trips, and the payment help describes 60–150 days after completion. A reservation today is not immediate affiliate cash.5
| Reader decision | Useful content to create |
|---|---|
| Where should I stay? | Compare location, room needs and transport to the places the reader will visit. |
| Hotel or vacation rental? | Explain the space, amenities and booking checks relevant to the trip. |
| Which trip component should I book? | Recommend a relevant stay or activity and check its actual commissionable brand/site. |
These are editorial ideas, not tested conversion strategies. Links, banners, widgets and a Creator Toolbox are offered; we have not tested them.1
Which bookings have a public rate?
| Product | Public standard rate | Listed brand scope and limits |
|---|---|---|
| Hotel | 4% | Expedia, Hotels.com and Wotif.2 |
| Activity | 4% | Expedia and Wotif.2 |
| Vacation rental | 2% | Expedia, Wotif, Vrbo, Stayz, Bookabach and Abritel.2 |
| Package | 2% | Expedia and Wotif.2 |
| Car | 1.5% | Expedia and Wotif; car commission is not supported in Hong Kong SAR, Japan, Singapore or South Korea.2 |
| Flight / cruise | Unlisted | The public table shows dashes. Inventory access does not establish a commission; confirm any account-specific offer.2,1 |
Check the base as well as the percentage. The public schedule uses Net Transaction Value / Rental Amount. The agreement defines Net Transaction Value excluding booking/travel taxes and fees; its Vrbo-family Net Rental Amount is after discounts and excludes taxes, deposits, fees and extras. Confirm the actual base for your brand/product.2,3
Hypothetical arithmetic: an eligible hotel booking with US$100 of Net Transaction Value at a confirmed 4% rate earns US$4 before applicable payment costs. US$100 here is the eligible base, not an assumed total checkout bill. This is not an income forecast.
Supported points of sale also differ by brand. Use the official commission matrix to match the booking site and product. That list does not establish where publishers may live or every customer's eligibility.2
From click to cash
- Complete the trip
Paid-in-full, consumed and verified bookings qualify. A stay must actually occur and reach checkout; activities must happen. Cancelled, refunded, unpaid or incorrectly tracked bookings can be excluded.3
- Verify credit
The agreement allows a verification period of up to 90 days after consumption. That is a separate stage from bank arrival, not an extra 90 days to automatically add to the help timeline.3
Different eligible products on the same brand site may earn credit after a link click. That does not establish automatic cross-brand credit or override the qualifying-transaction rules.2,4
Check site and content permissions
- Apply with an eligible site. The terms list unfinished construction sites and travel agents as ineligible. Sub-affiliate networks require exceptional written approval; that permission is not a tier-two reward.3
- Keep supplied links and content within their license. Intermediate links, obscuring shorteners, unauthorized modifications, scraping and content aggregation are restricted.3
- Assess branded SEO before participating. The agreement restricts Expedia marks in metatags and domains; brand bidding needs written approval. Approved codes and accurate coupon/deal copy have additional rules.3
- Read the editorial obligations. Content must be original and right-cleared; the terms also restrict statements reasonably interpreted as detrimental to Expedia. Submitted content carries broad usage rights. Assess that tradeoff against your publishing model.3
Paid creator-content/video rewards are separate from booking commissions. Their acceptance/payment rules do not establish recruited-affiliate commissions or a booking payout schedule.3,5
Before joining
Second-tier rewards: Unknown. The current ordinary publisher sources reviewed do not establish an override rate, base or duration for referred publishers.1,3
Actual account rates/bases, full country/payment eligibility, attribution recovery and branded-site permissions remain unconfirmed. Payment help has inconsistent country wording; use the published product/point-of-sale matrix and your accepted terms rather than assuming worldwide eligibility.5,2,3
We have not verified a brand-wide customer cancellation or refund policy for this profile. Before recommending a booking, check its total payable price, cancellation deadline, refundability and payment arrangements on the selected brand site.
Next, read the official affiliate programme against your intended pages. Use the programme-selection lesson to record the unanswered conditions and networks versus direct programmes to distinguish alternative offers.
Sources and open questions
Official sources checked October 7, 2026: programme, public standard commission table, linked affiliate terms, attribution help and booking-payment help. The programme and rate-table terms links resolve to the same document. Its printed November 9, 2023 date follows the bidding section; the whole-document effective date is not established. Numbering/cross-reference defects remain, and this is a scoped programme review rather than an exhaustive legal assessment.1,2,3,4,5
Confirm the accepted account offer, later-channel tracking scope, eligibility, settlement costs and site/content permissions. Consumer booking policies remain unreviewed. No application, product/booking/tool test or payout test was performed.
Research and editorial review: Affiliate Orchard with AI assistance. Based on public sources; no firsthand product or payout test.
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