The Co-operative Travel launch on AffiliateFuture
Monday, July 20th, 2009Dear all,
AffiliateFuture are very pleased to announce the launch of The Co-operative Travel on the AF network.
About Co-operative Travel
http://www.co-operativetravel.co.uk
The Co-operative Travel is the UK’s largest independent travel agent and is also part of the world’s largest consumer co-operative - The Co-operative Group.Their size and independence allows them to offer customers a wide range of holidays at exceptional value.
The Co-operative Travel sell holidays from all of the UK’s top travel companies such as Thomas Cook and TUI, as well as flights from charter, scheduled and low cost airlines and hotels from the industries leading hotel providers - Hotels4U, Med Hotels and Holiday Brokers . They also boast a vast array of city breaks, ski holidays and much more. The consumer has the ability to search “dynamically” and build their own holiday or select a pre packaged holiday. This makes them a one stop for travel.
Exciting news from Co-operative Travel
The Co-operative Travel has recently launched its own “tour operator” featuring a wide range of summer 2010 holiday packages. The brochure features summer 2010 holidays in the Balearics, Canaries, Mainland Spain, Portugal, Turkey, Greece, Cyprus, Egypt, Florida and Mexico.
Benefits to booking an exclusive 2010 package holiday with Cooperative Travel:
- 20kg luggage allowance on all flights
- Range of regional airport departures with low flight supplements
- Free child places
- £1 donation to The Travel Foundation for every passenger
- In-resort representation and 24 service cover via telephone
Visit - http://www.co-operativetravel.co.uk/exclusives
The Co-operative Travel is a full member of ABTA and is fully ATOL protected. Customers can rest assured that their travel arrangements and holiday money will be secure.
So why promote The Co-operative Travel?
The Co-operative Travel have been planning and organising people’s travel since 1920. Since then they have certainly come a long way to become the UK’s largest independent travel agent..
Range - 1000’s of holidays from 100’s of tour operators.
Size - Their size allows them to offer all customers a wide range of holidays at exceptional value
Value - All of the offers that they promote are competitively priced, plus customers can take advantage of exclusive online discounts and offers.
Security - Fully ABTA and ATOL protected
Values - Straight talking, honest, openness and responsibility. These qualities have governed their approach to business for the last 150 years.
Ethics - The Co-operative Group is among the world’s leading businesses in taking up the challenge of tackling global climate change.
Target Audience - Their online target audience is ‘home-owning families living comfortably in stable areas in suburban and semi-rural locations’. The majority book early to take advantage of early booking offers and discounts. They prefer to travel to family-friendly resorts in Greece, Turkey and Spain and tend to take at least one overseas holiday per year.
Commission rates
Package holidays & Flight + hotel holidays, City breaks, Ski, Disney flight & hotel, Disney hotel , Hotels, Villa’s and UK break - all pay 3%. Flight Only = 1%.
Deliver 20+ sales in a month and you will receive 4% commission on the incremental sales.
During the incentive launch period, The Co-operative Travel are paying an additional 2% on flight and hotel / package holiday bookings.
80% of online bookings = hotel and flight / package holidays.
The average basket value for hotel and flight / package holidays is £1,050 giving you an earning potential of £31.50 per booking (at 3%).
Programme resource
- Destination and resort level landing pages
- Hotel stock list and deep links (ongoing process - more coming soon)
- Dedicated in house Affiliate Manager and account manager via AffiliateFuture
Coming Soon
- Full suite of Hotel level landing pages
- Integration into AffiliateFuture Travel web services (allowing you access to live inventory via the AF Holiday search boxes). Estimated live date - Sep 09.
- HTML / I-frame search panels.
Launch Incentive
The Co-operative Travel are offering an additional 2% commission on package and flight + hotel holidays for the launch incentive period - 20th July to 31st August, as a little “Thank you” for your support. 
If you would like more detail on the Co-operative Travel programme, help with your promotions or wish to provide feedback, please contact:
AffiliateFuture: Victoria.mcquillan@affiliatefuture.co.uk
Co-operative Travel: Claire.court@co-operativetravel.co.uk
To Sign up to the programme, click here
Thanks and happy promoting!
AffiliateFuture and The Co-operative Travel group.
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