Booking.com
Affiliate
Program

Publishers Type
Travelpayouts will only be limited to the additions of Content Websites in the form of:

— Travel Blogs

We deem as “Travel Blog” any type of owned or hosted website (i.e. Wordpress, …) which uses affiliate links to redirect traffic to the Booking.com hotel page.


Commissioning
Publishers on Travelpayouts will be paid a maximum of 4% TTV commission for each stayed reservation.


Fraudulent Reservations
Parties agree that when calculating the compensation due to the Publisher, fraudulent reservations will not be taken into account as Materialised Transactions (each a “Fraudulent Reservation”).

In the event that Booking.com has been informed by the accommodation Publisher of an (alleged) Fraudulent Reservation or if it otherwise has reason to believe that the relevant reservation concerns a fraudulent reservation, Booking.com is entitled to either reconcile (and adjust) the issued credit invoice before payment has been made or issue a debit invoice after payment has been made by Booking.com.


Fraud Controls
Travelpayouts agrees to run on at least a quarterly basis a check to identify:

— Traffic Sources which are not allowed (see next point)

— User traffic behaviours which might lead to fraud, i.e. transactions with very high total value, transactions with very long booking window, etc.

Additionally Travelpayouts agrees to act immediately on any request which will come from the Booking.com team made on the grounds of evidence of fraud or quality concerns, i.e. closure of a fraudulent publisher.


Traffic Sources
In summary, the below forms of advertisements are not allowed on the Booking.com Affiliate Programme (detailed description below):

— No Social Media (unless explicitly approved by the booking.com team)

— No URLs similar to booking name (and other brands in the Booking Holdings group)

— No toolbars & extension or booking.com site iframes(unless explicitly approved by the booking.com team)

— No pop-ups, pop unders placements

— No advertisement on adult content pages, gambling and spyware/malware pages, etc.

— No sub-networks (unless explicitly approved by the booking.com team)


Transparency
Travelpayouts will create and keep active at all times, at least one login access for the Booking.com team(s). This login will be used to check the performance of the campaign and the quality of the publishers.


Website Prohibiting Conduct / Promotion and Marketing:
a) The Publisher shall not (directly or indirectly) register, acquire or obtain Internet domain name(s) which incorporates any word or words which are identical, or confusingly or substantially similar to «Booking», «Bookings» or any variations, translations or misspellings thereof, included as part of the address. See Similar name below for additional explanation

b) NO use of iframes or similar functionality

c) NO use of toolbars, browser applications and/or extensions that can be knowingly or unknowingly installed on the uses computer or other devices



The Publisher shall avoid all forms of trickery when promoting and marketing the Booking.com Platform. If the Publisher is perceived to be jeopardising Booking.com’s own position, brand or goodwill in/on Third Party Platform or elsewhere, through any underhand promotional or marketing techniques, the Publisher shall upon first request of Booking.com cease and desist such activities.

In the event that Booking.com (Platform) is detrimentally linked to promotional or marketing activity by the Publisher (Platform), the Publisher agrees to promptly comply with the reasonable requests of Booking.com to remedy. During any remedial period Booking.com shall be entitled to postpone its obligations or immediately terminate its agreement.