Post on 18-Jul-2015
HotelsCombined™ Partner Program
Index
Introduction
Who we are The team behind HotelsCombined How consumers use HotelsCombined Our Supply Partners
HotelsCombined Partner Solutions
Commercial Model
Who are we
HotelsCombined searches multiple reservation sites to find hotel availability at the lowest price for our consumers.
We aggregate and deliver:
450,000+ hotels, apartments, B&Bs, motels and more 30 Million aggregated consumer reviews 5 Million hotel images 7 Million hotel descriptions and maps
We have partnered with all the key online travel brands and have access to all the main hotel inventory sources
We serve over 30 million consumers every month, in 42 languages and over 190 currencies.
The team behind HotelsCombined
Established in 2005
Digital business, marketing and technology experts, with many years of online travel experience
Independent / Successful / Proven performance
Utilising the latest infrastructure and technology
Growing, dedicated team - committed delivering the best service for its partners
How consumers use HotelsCombined
Our Suppliers
• Our suppliers are selected by considering their inventory, technical stability, rates and their trustworthiness in the market
• For a full list of our supply partners: http://www.hotelscombined.com/AboutUs/Providers.aspx
PARTNER SOLUTIONS
The Opportunity
Integrate our hotel search product into your website, mobile site or mobile application (compatible with all main OS)
Offer the most comprehensive hotel selection to your users
Incremental revenue stream
Minimal effort or cost to you
Operating since 2005
Used by over 15,000 partners globally and growing every day
Constantly evolving best practices and new technologies
A dedicated partner support team
Proven results
Testimonials from happy partners:
About the HotelsCombined Partner Program
Our partners
Some of the sites that use our leading hotel comparison platform:
Partner Solutions / Implementation Options
HotelsCombined has 3 implementation solutions for our partners:
Self service solution – utilise text links, search boxes and banners, available in the dedicated Affiliate Portal
Co-branding or Private Branding (white label) – customise our search and results pages with your website’s look & feel
Fully customised, managed and dedicated solutions for top tier partners.
Partner Solution – Self service
Self service allows you to generate your own custom, trackable links from within the affiliate control panel directly to any destination or hotel on HotelsCombined.
Benefits:
Quick and easy to implement
Create deep links or targeted search boxes, to maximise conversion
Track multiple links placements, to determine what works best
Partner Solution – Private Branding
Private Branding allows you to customise the HotelsCombined website with your own look & feel. This will provide a more seamless experience for your visitors, as the hotel content will appear as part of your own site.
Benefits:
Improve your visitor retention rate by increasing the value of your website's content
Increase user engagement and build brand value Improve conversion rates Increase the comprehensiveness of your website, by providing instant
access to hotel deals worldwide
Private Branding – example
Travelsupermarket.com – A leading travel aggregator/comparison engine
* More private branding examples are available on request
Partner Solution – customised integration
We offer custom integration options, utilising industry leading design and implementation as well as extensive data feeds, as required by the partner
Benefits:
Maintain complete flexibility in the way hotel content is structured and presented
Dynamically retrieve rates and availability in real time, whenever a customer visits your website
Seamless integration of HotelsCombined data with your own website content
Partner Solution – Mobile
The solution offered by HotelsCombined is completely scalable to mobile and can be utilised to allow partners to more effectively monetise their mobile and tablet traffic
Benefits:
Turnkey, “plug & play” solution
Can be embedded within an existing app or as a standalone mobile website
Optimised for mobile and tablet browsing for any OS (Android, Apple, BlackBerry, Windows)
API available (on request) to allow extensive customisation if required (examples on next slide)
Partner Solution – Mobile (example implementations)
Momondo – leading travel metasearch in Scandinavia
When2Stay– popular travel site in South Korea
Ryanair – premier low cost carrier in Europe
HotelsCombined Partner Program - Partner Benefits
Global coverage of hotel inventory - search 100s of the major travel sites and 450,000+ hotels across 200+ countries
24/7, real time, seamless reporting interface - track traffic, revenue & payments
Monthly Payments – no need to wait for bookings to materialise (check-out), you get paid in the month following the month when revenue was generated
A dedicated, multi-lingual partner support team - get queries answered quickly
Industry-leading hardware and equipment - you are guaranteed 100% uptime (SLA)
COMMERCIAL MODEL
Commercial Model
HotelsCombined generates revenue from our compared hotel reservation suppliers by sending them qualified visitors.
Earn More - You get paid every time a visitor is redirected to one of our supplier hotel comparison sites or clicks on an ad (lead). Average lead values are USD $0.8 - $2
1 year Cookie - We track all visitors up to 1 year; so even if they come back to HotelsCombined directly and click off to one of our hotel reservation suppliers, you still get paid
Reporting - 24/7, real-time reporting available, so you can track your earnings
Flexible Payment Options - Monthly via bank wire or PayPal
Thank you!
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