Travel Advisors

New partners start at 8% on day tours and 12% on multi-day packages. That rises to 10% / 14% at Preferred and 12% / 16% at Elite as your production grows — you can see your progress toward the next tier in your portal. A small number of tours where entrance fees or flights make up most of the cost carry a reduced rate; those are marked in your rate sheet, never hidden.

Commission is confirmed the moment your client books, and released once travel is completed. We pay monthly in one batch rather than per booking — an international transfer per day tour would cost more in bank charges than the commission is worth. Payments go by Wise or bank transfer, in USD. The minimum payment is $100.00; anything below that simply rolls into the following month.

Because a booking is not revenue until the trip happens. If we paid at booking and the client later cancelled or disputed the card charge, we would be refunding the traveller and chasing the commission back from you — an awkward conversation neither of us wants. Paying after travel keeps every statement final.

Three ways, and you can use whichever suits the client. You can make the booking yourself in the portal. You can send your client a payment link generated in your portal — it carries your partner ID. Or you can register the client in advance by name and email, and any booking they make in the next 30 days is yours, on any device, even if they come back to us through Google. You will see it appear on your statement either way.

No — and please do not, even by encrypted message. Your client enters their own card on our secure payment page, reached through the link you send them. This protects your client, protects you, and keeps card data out of both our inboxes. It is the one rule we will not bend.

No. We do not sell below our published retail price, and we ask you not to advertise below it either. If your client checks our website after you quote them, they see the same number you gave them. No advisor should lose a booking because their supplier competed with them.

No, and most advisors do not have one. IATA, IATAN, ARC, CLIA, TIDS or TRUE all work — as do TICO, OPC and Consumer Protection BC in Canada, and ASTA or ACTA membership. If you trade under a host agency such as Fora, Travel Leaders, Nexion or TTAND, just tell us which one; that is enough.

A date change carries your commission to the new travel date — nothing is lost. A cancellation or no-show earns no commission, and neither do cancellation fees, since those cover our costs rather than represent a sale. If a group of ten travels as six, commission is settled on the six who actually went.

Yes. Select "Tour operator" on the application and we will set your account up on net rates instead of commission: you receive our price less an agreed discount, you collect from your client, and you keep whatever margin you build on top. Settlement is due before your travellers arrive in Turkey.

It works very well — Ephesus and the Seven Churches, Cappadocia and Istanbul are a large part of what we do. Group organisers who are not travel agencies usually prefer a free place to a commission cheque: every 15 paying travellers earns one complimentary place on land services, flights excluded. No invoicing, no bank transfers, no tax paperwork.

Neither. There is no fee, no annual minimum and no exclusivity. If you send us one booking a year, you are still a partner and you still get paid.

Applications are reviewed by a person, normally within one working day. After that we commit to answering partner enquiries within 4 working hours — quotes, changes, and questions while your client is travelling. Slow replies are the most common complaint advisors have about suppliers in this region, so we treat that number as a promise rather than an aspiration.