1. About Hostelsclub.com Hostelsclub.com offers a wide variety of accommodations such as budget hotels, B&Bs, apartments, camping grounds and youth hostels offering travellers access to a wide selection of lodging in hundreds of locations globally. All bookings are made in real-time, they are secure and guaranteed. Hostelsclub.com continues to grow rapidly, with unique visitors recently reaching 200,000 hits per month. They provide thousands of listings for establishments in over 500 cities, within 70 different countries, covering all continents. Affiliate Program

2. What is the Affiliate Program The program generates a link for you to insert into your webpages. This link allows your website's visitors access to reserve the establishments in our global database of accommodations. When someone uses the Hostelsclub link on your page to make a reservation, you are awarded a percentage of the reservation fee. Therefore, not only does this link to our portal aid your users, but it will provide you with an additional source of revenue. Best of all this is a free service! We do not charge a start-up fee, and there is no commitment required, you can disenroll from the program at any time. Affiliate Program

3. Benefits An affiliate link will increase the functionality of your site, offering users a simple, easy to use booking facility for guaranteed online bookings, from a vast database of quality affordable accommodations. An affiliation with Hostelsclub.com will immediately give you the opportunity to increase the revenue of your site by simply adding our HTML affiliate linkage coding. Hostelsclub offers a comparative advantage to other similar affiliate programs; if a customer cancels their reservation, our affiliates do not lose any money. Whereas with other similar booking systems, establishments pay the reservation company AFTER the customer has arrived. Hostelsclub.com automatically calculates the commission earned and charges a non-refundable deposit. Affiliate Program

4. How to Join There are a number of options for implementing our program. Please refer to the following slides for specific details of options A, B, & C. To join our program, we first need to create an affiliation account for you. Please send us an email to with the following information: Company name: Payment method (check or direct deposit): E-mail address: Website address: Postal Address: Contact phone number: Once we have received this information an account will be created and all necessary information will be made available to you for uploading your affiliate linkage. Affiliate Program

5. Option A This option involves uploading a link complete with an affiliate code which directs your site's visitors to our own site: if they make a purchase, you receive a percentage of the amount paid to us. The link can also take the form of text or a banner, as displayed below. Affiliate Program

6. Option B This option allows you to integrate hostelsclub into your site, by using a personalised interface in which you can insert your logo and a simple html menu. When your site's visitors use the link, they will be transported to Hostelsclub.com, but on pages that look like your site. Affiliate Program

7. Option C This option allows you to create your own search interface (country - city - date - number of nights), and direct your visitors to a personalised version of our hostels selection page. An good example of this option is www.hostelscentral.com. www.hostelscentral.com Language option: the default language for our affiliate program is English. But you can use our booking interface in other languages, as well. Our booking system is now available in German, French, Spanish and Italian. Soon there will be Chinese too ! Affiliate Program