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Get paid when your guests book tours.

Big Island Activities pays you 8% when your guests, customers, or audience book through your personalized link.

A better resource for your audience. Extra revenue for you.

Give your audience an easy way to discover and book great experiences without building or managing anything yourself.

Your personalized page

Ready to share the moment you sign up. Customize it later, or never.

Easy sharing

Put your link and QR code on your website, in your guest guide, or on a printed card. Each one carries your commission notice.

Automatic tracking

We track eligible bookings back to your partner account. Nothing to install.

8% commission

You earn 8% of booking revenue, before taxes and fees, on eligible bookings.

See what you could earn

$500 booking you earn $40

You get a flat 8% of the pre-tax booking total on every qualifying booking from your link. No caps, no tiers.

$300 booking $24
$600 booking $48
$1200 booking $96

If people ask you what to do, this is for you

Anyone people ask

Bartenders, drivers, stylists, dive-shop staff. You already answer "what should we do tomorrow?" several times a week. Now that answer can pay.

Friends and family

You have planned three trips for people you know this year. Send them your link instead of a message full of tabs.

Short-term rental hosts

Put a QR card in your welcome book or the room. Guests book their snorkel trip or luau, you earn on every one.

Photographers and creators

Add your link to client galleries and trip guides. The couples and families you shoot book sunset sails and helicopter tours.

Concierges and front-desk staff

Put your page where guests already ask what to do. Every booking through your link pays you back.

Restaurants and local shops

A table-tent QR turns a great meal into a booked adventure, and commission for you.

No business, no website and no audience required. If you can share a link or hand someone a card, you can be a partner.

Start earning - it is free

Free to join. You are approved instantly and can start sharing today.

Sign up. Share. Get paid.

Three steps, and only the first one takes any effort.

1

Sign up

Your name and email is the whole form. Your page goes live immediately, and your link and QR code appear right on the screen.

2

Share

Send your personalized link or QR code to your guests, customers, clients, or audience. Nothing to build and nothing to manage.

3

Get paid

You earn 8% of booking revenue, before taxes and fees, on every eligible booking.

Common Questions

Anyone who can reach travelers. Vacation-rental hosts, hotel concierges, restaurants, bloggers and content creators, tour operators who want to cross-sell, local businesses of any size - and plenty of individuals who simply get asked where to go. You do not need a business, a website or an audience. Sign-ups are approved instantly, so you can start sharing your link the same day.

You earn 8% of the pre-tax booking total on each qualifying booking. A qualifying booking is one that is properly tracked, completed by the customer, and not cancelled, refunded, or disputed.

Payouts are issued on the 21st of the month following the month the tour was completed. For example, a tour that runs in January pays on February 21. Payment is made exclusively via PayPal. The minimum payout is $50 - balances below that roll forward until they cross the threshold.

Only if you are a US person who earns $600 or more in a calendar year. At that point US federal law requires us to have a W-9 on file before we can release your payouts, and we issue a 1099-NEC at year-end. You submit the W-9 digitally from your dashboard; we only store the last four digits of your Tax ID.

Yes, whenever you recommend a tour in your own words. Say it right next to the recommendation, not on another page and not only in your profile. One sentence covers it: "If you book through my link, I earn a small commission, and it never changes your price." The printed pages and QR cards you generate from your dashboard already carry this line, so you do not need to add anything to those. Two reasons it matters: the FTC requires it of anyone who recommends something they are paid for, and it is in your partner agreement. It also tends to help rather than hurt, because people already assume a curated list earns something, and saying so plainly reads as straight dealing.

Check the rules of your own platform first, and treat them as the limit. Airbnb and VRBO both block outside links in guest messages before a booking is confirmed, and both accept links about the stay afterwards. The approach we recommend is to keep the tours in your guest guide or the printed page in your unit, and use your message only to point guests at that guide once their booking is confirmed. Your dashboard has two ready-made lines for exactly this.

When a visitor clicks your link, we set a first-party cookie that lasts 30 days. If they book any tour within that window, the booking is credited to you - even if they did not book the exact tour on your landing page.

If a booking you referred is cancelled, refunded, or charged back - either before or after we have paid you - the commission on that booking will be reversed. If the reversal happens after you have been paid, the amount is deducted from your next payout. This mirrors how our upstream booking partner treats cancellations with us.

Yes. Your partner page auto-populates with our top 20 tours the day you sign up. You can swap, reorder, and update them whenever you like, up to 20 tours at a time.

Yes. Once you are a partner, your dashboard has an invite link. When a business or creator joins through it and generates an eligible booking, you earn 1% of that booking's revenue, before taxes and fees, for 12 months from the day they sign up. It comes out of our share, not theirs, and it is paid with your own earnings on the same schedule. One tier only: you earn on the partners you refer, not on partners they refer.

Email us and we will close your account. Any approved commissions above the minimum payout threshold will be paid in the next regular cycle, provided your tax documentation is in order.

Which playbook is yours?

One page each: what to put where, the lines you can copy, the one rule, and what week one looks like on Big Island Activities.

Start earning

Your name and email. Your page is live in under a minute.

Free to join. Nothing to manage.

Signing up a company, vacation rental, hotel, or restaurant? Add its name and we use it for your page and your link. Leave it blank and we use your own name.

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