Many travelers have bank cards that help them earn miles for their purchases and flights. True, with the new course of these same miles, a “free” ticket, say, to Simferopol will cost at least half a million rubles.
Similarly arranged travel affiliate programs. With the only difference that instead of virtual miles, you get cash money, which is credited for all expenses associated with your journey.
Consider how affiliate economics works on the example of the
travelpayouts.com program. Many sites use it, for example, Artemy Lebedev's travel blog or
travel.ru portal. By registering in the program, you will receive a unique link. When buying a ticket, you need to type in the browser not just, say,
www.aviasales.ru , but your own type address
http://www.aviasales.ru/?marker=79656 . The marker at the end allows you to track purchases and credit commission.
Now let's calculate: a ticket found for two people through the search engine to Thessaloniki and back will cost 24,402 rubles. The same ticket on the airline's website costs 300 rubles more. To the resulting savings, add about 500 rubles commission, which you will return for the purchase. Thus, on the tickets you have already earned 800 rubles.
Now let's do housing. The program Travelpayouts have offers from the Airbnb service. You will receive 40% of the service fee. Again, you need to use personal links in your office to get you counted. Weekly living in an apartment by the sea costs about $ 357, but it will cost you $ 19 less.
Insurance will bring 140 rubles, visas with home delivery of 520 rubles, also do not forget about the excursions for which you are entitled to 6% of the order value and other services. Putting it all together, we get the budget for a week-long trip to Greece for two: 55,480 rubles. This amount includes travel, accommodation, visas and insurance. Partnership payments in this case will be approximately 2500 rubles (enough for a good dinner with wine). Thus, the cost of summer vacation by the sea is approximately equal to 53 thousand. The commission from Travelpayouts can be received on your bank account or electronic money, you decide.
For the purity of the experiment, we compare the total cost with the proposal of the largest operator in Greece. The cheapest week in June costs 59,213 rubles, but you will need to add the cost of visas to this price. Of course, the agency will do everything for you, no need to choose tickets and apartments, but the money saved will be the money earned. And if you can save on a vacation, we do not mind at all.