Big Island Activities pays you 8% when your guests, customers, or audience book through your personalized link.
Give your audience an easy way to discover and book great experiences without building or managing anything yourself.
Ready to share the moment you sign up. Customize it later, or never.
Put your link and QR code on your website, in your guest guide, or on a printed card. Each one carries your commission notice.
We track eligible bookings back to your partner account. Nothing to install.
You earn 8% of booking revenue, before taxes and fees, on eligible bookings.
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$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.
Bartenders, drivers, stylists, dive-shop staff. You already answer "what should we do tomorrow?" several times a week. Now that answer can pay.
You have planned three trips for people you know this year. Send them your link instead of a message full of tabs.
Put a QR card in your welcome book or the room. Guests book their snorkel trip or luau, you earn on every one.
Add your link to client galleries and trip guides. The couples and families you shoot book sunset sails and helicopter tours.
Put your page where guests already ask what to do. Every booking through your link pays you back.
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.
Free to join. You are approved instantly and can start sharing today.
Three steps, and only the first one takes any effort.
Your name and email is the whole form. Your page goes live immediately, and your link and QR code appear right on the screen.
Send your personalized link or QR code to your guests, customers, clients, or audience. Nothing to build and nothing to manage.
You earn 8% of booking revenue, before taxes and fees, on every eligible booking.
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 canceled, 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 $2,000 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 canceled, 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. Your remaining approved balance is paid in the next regular cycle regardless of the minimum payout threshold, provided your payment and tax details are in order.
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.
Your name and email. Your page is live in under a minute.
Free to join. Nothing to manage.