Best Travel affiliate programs
7 Travel affiliate programs compared on commission, cookie window and payout terms.
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Agoda vs GetYourGuide
Agoda or GetYourGuide? Commission, cookie window, payout schedule and approval, compared side by side.
- Travel
- Updated August 11, 2026
GetYourGuide takes 4 of 5 compared terms. Which one earns more still depends on your audience — the table below shows where each one wins.
Term by term
| Criterion | Agoda | GetYourGuide Top pick |
|---|---|---|
| The money | ||
| Commission | 4–5% | ✔ 8% |
| Pays for | — | — |
| Payout type | Tiered | One-time |
| Tier ladder | Tier 1 4%, Tier 2 4.5%, Tier 3 5% | Base commission 8%, Customised rate Not published |
| Terms | ||
| Cookie window | — | 31 days |
| Ease of starting | 2.5 / 5 | ✔ 4 / 5 |
| Approval | Reviewed | — |
| Our rating | — | — |
| Getting paid | ||
| Paid out | Monthly (Commission is calculated on the first day of each month and paid by the 15th. The agreement sets payment by the end of the month following the guest's departure for merchant bookings, and 60 days after that month end for agency bookings.) | Monthly (Invoices are generated from the second working day of the month; payment processing should conclude by the tenth working day. GetYourGuide advises not to change payment details between the last days of a month and the tenth of the next.) |
| Minimum payout | $200 (Balances below the threshold roll forward until they reach it.) | ✔ $55 (Bank transfer only: GetYourGuide states a threshold of EUR 50 (roughly $55 USD) or the local currency equivalent. PayPal has no threshold at all, so PayPal partners are paid monthly on any balance.) |
| Clearing hold | — | — |
| Payment methods | Direct bank transfer | ✔ PayPal, Bank transfer |
| Rules | ||
| Self-referral | Prohibited | — |
| Paid search | Prohibited | — |
| Affiliate assets | ✔ Deep links and text links, Hotel Power Ads, Image banners, Customisable search boxes, Map widget, Multi-lingual data feeds | Link builder, Automatic widgets, Site integrations, Analytics suite |
A ✔ marks the better term on that row. Rows where the programs match, where the terms aren't comparable, or where a program hasn't published a figure are left unmarked — a dash means unknown, not zero.
The programs
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Agoda is an online travel agency selling hotel and accommodation bookings, strongest in Asia-Pacific, with a catalogue it puts at over 925,000 properties.
- Top pick
GetYourGuide is a marketplace for tours, day trips and attraction tickets in cities worldwide.
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Affiliate terms change often, and every figure here comes from each program's own published page on the date above. Confirm the current rate with the merchant before you promote it. Links to the programs are affiliate links.