I depends on what amount of work you want to put into your this particular site. Plus travel is a bit broad, don't you think? If you only talk about traveling on a blog kind of site I don't think you should go with booking.com for example..

What's your position in Google, can you be a bit more specific about the content?

There are a lot of travel agencies that offer affiliate programs. Bingo!

Adsense
And Affiliates From Travel Companies!

Travel agencies that work worldwide? You mean like booking.com etc?

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My tip: look over similar niche sites and find out how they monetize.

^^Yes.

And to answer your question - Adsense. If you have traffic, you'll make a killing, I promise you that. Plenty of advertisers and relevant ads, and they are VERY clickable. You can test other stuff if you want to (Agoda, etc), but adsense is a no brainer.

commission junction has plenty of travel companies. just enter keyword "travel" into the search box to get matched with travel affiliate programs.

you might want to sign up for the groupon affiliate program. people tend to buy groupons for the city they visit. you would get a percentage of each sale generated through your blog.

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I would do a combination of AdSense and affiliate travel related websites.

AdSense will work well because the both the payouts and ctrs tend to be good.

On my travel related site I also use:
hotelscombined.com
Unlike the standard hotel affiliate programs where you only get paid if someone books a room and completes the stay, they are essentially a pay for leads program. You get paid if a user follows through to hotel site after doing a search. The payout varies but it's always good.

Adsense is one of the best for monetizing your sites. This is what i would use and then place some clickbank links throughout my pages

Thanks for the inputs guys. Well I guess we will split test the hell out of it, once its up and running I am not surprised by the fact most preffer adsense, cause it does seem like the clickiest of the bunch

Thank you.

Any other comments and suggestions are always welcome

We did a case study on a site that was on Flippa at auction that was KILLING it with Agoda as an affiliate partner. It was a really interesting site...we've since signed up for Agoda and plan to do some testing in the future.

The site is extremely locked down...there are very few holes where you'd lose trafffic to anything that's not your own content or Agoda. One of the interesting things about their affiliate program is that they don't require affiliate links...you can send the traffic directly once you've signed up and have been approved. Check out the case study here:

28K Per Month Authority Site Case Study | AdSense Flippers

Try Agoda.com, im making some decent money with them.

Does Agoda pay a % of the entire purchase (even if they pay at the hotel) or just a % of the reservation fee & full purchase online?

The structure provided on their site is a bit weird, therefor not clear as to what you are getting. Any first hand experience welcome..

I would like to see you try building a list with the traffic and then selling to the list, be it travel guides, Clickbank travel products, travel deals and offers etc. Will be interesting to see if it works

I am interested to setup a hotel comparison website for the town I live in. Once an affiliate agreement is made with booking.com, hotelscombined.com, agoda etc, do you know if that will automatically update the latest prices on my website too ?

Also is it easy enough to setup multiple affiliate agreements? Booking.com is a commission on a sale whereas hotelscombined is click through payments even if people do not purchase a hotel in the end. It would be ideal to have both on my website.

I have read about metasearch software but this seems to be for larger websites scraping the web for hotel information for thousands of destinations eg travelsupermarket.com

Anymore info on this stuff would be hugely appreciated.

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