Every booking you send
pays 10% — up to $15
10% of the trip price, up to $15 on a single booking, landing on your referral code the moment your reader books a tour, cruise or transfer. Every click and every dollar is visible in your own dashboard. Free to join, no minimum audience, and the full rules are public before you apply.
What you actually earn, per booking
Real trips, at the prices published on this site, with the $15 ceiling applied where it bites. Open any of them and check the maths yourself.
| If your reader books… | Booking value | You earn (10%) |
|---|---|---|
| Two sleeper-bus seats, Hanoi → Sapathe smallest thing we sell — yes, it pays too | ~$34 | $3.40 |
| 2-day Sapa trek, 2 people | ~$136 | $13.60 |
| Private car, Hanoi airport → Sapa | ~$160 | $15at the cap |
| Overnight Ha Long Bay cruise, 2 people | ~$270 | $15at the cap |
| 6-day North Vietnam trip, 2 peoplethe ceiling in plain sight: a big trip pays the same as a $160 transfer | ~$1,000–1,300 | $15 |
Booking values are the public prices on this site at the time of writing, shown for illustration — follow the links for today's price. Commission is 10% of what the customer actually pays for the trip itself (payment-gateway fees and tax are excluded from the base), capped at $15 per booking, calculated and paid in USD. So the $15 ceiling is the whole strategy: five transfers pay more than one luxury package. If your audience books a lot of small and mid-size trips, this program suits you; if you place one $5,000 trip a year, it honestly doesn't — and we'd rather say that here than have you find out on your first big booking.
When the money reaches you
The honest version, in order. Nothing here changes after you join — it is section 3 of the program terms.
Why you don't have to take our word for it
Most affiliate programs ask you to trust a black box. Here is what we show you instead — including the parts that don't favour us.
- Every click on your links, and the conversion rate they produce
- Every booking with its value, your commission, and its status — pending, payable, paid or void
- Your commission rate and any cap, written on the account, snapshotted onto each booking so it can't be changed retroactively
- Your balance, your withdrawal history, and the terms you accepted with the date
- If our tracking ever misses a booking you can verify as yours, we credit it manually — that promise is in the terms, not just on this page
- Cancelled or refunded bookings: no commission, ever
- One referral = one booking. After your reader books, their next trip only counts if they come through your link again
- Last link wins: if they click another partner's link after yours, the booking is theirs
- Booking through your own link for yourself is flagged automatically for review
- Ads on our brand name, fake bookings, or promised discounts we never published
This program is in a pilot phase and we say so in writing. Section 1 of the terms commits us to talking with you before any decision that affects your earnings, and section 9 to paying out what you legitimately earned even if either side walks away. Read all ten sections →
Give your audience a reason to use your code
You can hand part of your own commission back to your readers as a real discount. Set the share in your profile — say 3 of your 10 points — and anyone typing your code at checkout sees the price drop, while you keep the rest. Turn it off any time; set it to 0 and you keep everything.
It is the difference between “please use my link” and “use my code, it saves you money”.
Who you would be partnering with
LuxuryTourVN is a working tour operator in Hanoi, not a link network. We run the tours, cruises and transfers on this site, we invoice and are paid by the same customers you send, and you can walk into the office. Talk to us before you apply — we answer as people, on the same numbers our customers use.
Straight answers
How do I get my links?
Once approved you get a login to your partner dashboard. Pick any tour, cruise or transfer page and the dashboard generates a tracked link (plus a short /go/ link) for it, or use your plain referral code — customers can type it into any booking form. Every link belongs to your code, so a reader who lands on your Sapa link and books a Ha Long cruise still counts as yours.
Why is there a $15 cap per booking?
Because it is what lets us pay 10% on every booking — the $34 bus seat included — instead of only on expensive packages. $15 is the most a single booking can pay, whatever the trip costs. Your rate and your cap are both written on your account before your first link goes live. Both numbers are copied onto each commission the moment it is created, so a change can never reach back and reduce what you already earned — and if we ever change them going forward, section 1 of the terms says we tell you before it applies.
Do I need a big following?
No minimum. We look at whether your audience travels to Vietnam, not at your follower count — a 2,000-reader newsletter of people actually planning a trip beats 200,000 passive followers. Show us your strongest channels in the form and we'll tell you honestly either way.
What if a booking of mine doesn't show up?
Write to us with what you know — the date, the name, roughly what they booked. If we can verify the booking came from you, we credit the commission manually. That is section 1 of the terms and it exists precisely because tracking is never perfect: people switch phones, clear cookies, or book by WhatsApp after reading your post.
Why do I have to wait until the trip is over?
Because bookings get cancelled and refunded, and we would rather pay your full rate on everything that actually happens than a smaller rate with money clawed back later. Your commission is visible as Pending the whole time — it isn't hidden, it just isn't withdrawable yet.
How do I get paid, and in what currency?
Commission is calculated in USD (bookings in VND are converted at the invoice's exchange rate). You request a withdrawal of $100 or more from the dashboard, to your bank account or PayPal. Payouts are gross — any tax on the income is yours to handle, wherever you live.
What do you see about me, and what do I see about the customer?
We ask for your name, email, phone and channel links to review the application, and later your payout details. You see the booking, its value and your commission — customer personal data stays masked in the portal on purpose. Service questions from your readers come to us, not to you.
Is there any cost or exclusivity?
None. Joining is free, there is no monthly minimum to keep the account, and you are free to promote anyone else at the same time. If you stop, commissions you already earned on paid, completed trips are still paid out.
Apply to the partner program
Show us where your audience lives — your channels are how we judge the partnership, so include your strongest ones. We read every application ourselves and reply by email within a few days, yes or no. No fee, and nothing is charged at any point.
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