Getting Started as a Travel Creator

This guide takes you from sign-up to your first bookable hotel link. It takes about 15 minutes. By the end you’ll have a live storefront, your first link to share, and you’ll know how and when you get paid.

Before you start

You’ll need:

• An e-mail address to register with.
• The link to your main social profile, channel or blog.
• Bank details. These can wait until you’ve earned your first commission.

How you earn

• 10% default commission on every booking you send to a hotel on the Wink Network.
• Six months of credit per click. If someone clicks your link today and books three months later, the booking is still yours.
• No follower minimum and no application. Every hotel active on the Wink Network is available to you from day one.
• No guest service to handle. Payment is collected for the hotel, which stays merchant of record and looks after the guest. You earn the commission.

For the full picture, see How Travel Creators Earn Commission on Hotel Bookings and Pricing.

Step 1: Create your Wink login

1. Go to app.wink.travel and click Sign-In / Register in the top-right corner.

2. Click the Register link below the login form, complete the form and click Register.

3. Log in. You land in Portal, ready to create your account.

Step 2: Create your creator account

Your login is you. Your account is the creator profile your audience and hotels see.

Choose your account type

1. Click Accounts in the left sidebar, then Create.

2. Choose I am an Affiliate. On Wink, creators are affiliates: you earn commission on the bookings you send.

3. Fill in the form:

   • Name: your creator name, as your audience knows you.
   • Entity type: Individual, unless you work through a company. This decides how you’re paid.
   • Type: Influencer.
   • Description: one or two lines about what you post. It shows on your storefront.
   • Website: your main profile, e.g. your Instagram, TikTok or YouTube URL. Hotels look here when you ask to work with them directly.
   • City: where you’re based.

4. Accept the Terms & Conditions and Payment Terms, then click Save.

Your storefront address

Your account name sets your storefront address: an account called Queen Bee gets i.trvl.as/queen-bee. You can edit this part of the address, the slug, later. Slugs are first come, first served, so claim yours early. See Claim your URL.

Step 3: Set up your storefront

Your storefront is your WinkLinks page, a link-in-bio page that also sells hotels. It already exists at your i.trvl.as address. Now make it yours.

A WinkLinks storefront

1. Upload a profile picture and check the description from Step 2.

2. Add the links you already share: your channels, your blog, even other affiliate links. They all live on one page. See Content.

3. In WinkLinks > Design, switch on Intelligent so Instagram, Facebook, YouTube, X and Spotify links show as playable posts instead of plain links. Pick a layout and your colours. See Settings.

Want to see one live? Visit i.trvl.as/starringmay.

Step 4: Find hotels worth promoting

Hotels are in Studio, the creator side of Portal. There’s nothing extra to sign up for.

1. Click Browse > Hotels in the main nav bar, or search from your dashboard.

2. Filter by destination, dates and price until you find hotels you’d actually recommend.

3. Keep the good ones: add them to a curated list (every account starts with Favorites), or save the search to come back to it.

Tip

Promote places you’ve stayed at or would stay at. Your audience can tell the difference, and it’s what turns clicks into bookings. For ideas, see Discover Great Deals.

Step 5: Make your first bookable link

Actions on a search result

1. On a hotel in your search results, click Make a link.

2. Give the link a name you’ll recognise, add a title and description, and pick the images people will see when you share it.

3. Choose a theme to show the live price on top of the image.

4. Click Save. You get a short link like trvl.as/3xWCH, carrying your credit.

Full options are in Shareable Links.

Which format to use where

Where you post	Use	Why
Stories, Reels, TikTok, comments, DMs	Shareable link	One short link for one hotel, with a price preview.
Link in bio	WinkLinks	One address for everything you recommend.
A themed trip (“5 boutique stays in Lisbon”)	Curated list shown as a grid or map	Lets people compare and book from one place.
Your blog or website	Card, grid or map	Bookable hotels right inside your article.

Step 6: Share it

Put your link where your audience already looks: your bio, story link stickers, YouTube descriptions, pinned comments, newsletters and blog posts. Six months of credit means a link in an evergreen video or article keeps earning long after you post it.

Label your partner links

Most platforms and many countries require you to show that you earn from a link, for example with #ad, #affiliate or the platform’s paid-partnership label. Follow the rules for your platform and country. It also builds trust with your audience.

Step 7: Track what’s working

Click your profile icon in the top-right corner, then Analytics, to see clicks and bookings. Drop what doesn’t convert and post more of what does. See Analytics.

Step 8: Get paid

1. Add your bank account: go to Account > Bank Accounts, add your account and mark it Primary. Automatic payouts go to your primary account. See Bank Accounts.

2. Commission becomes available within 24 hours of the guest checking in. A booking made in March for a stay in June pays out in June.

3. Payouts go by bank transfer. Wink sends payouts through Revolut, so if you have a Revolut account, use it: it’s the smoothest option. Any other bank account works too.

4. Transfer fees are paid at cost and depend on your country and currency. A quote calculator shows the cost before you withdraw. See Pricing and Withdraw Funds.

Note

As your earnings grow, we may ask you to verify your identity before releasing funds. This is standard for any platform that pays people out.

Level up

• Work directly with a hotel. Once you have 5 bookings on Wink, you can ask a hotel for a direct connection, for example a special deal for your audience or a group rate. With a direct connection, you and the hotel can agree a commission other than the 10% default. See Network.
• Post more with less effort. Social creates and schedules hotel posts for you. Manual posts are always free; AI-made content is pay-as-you-go. See Pricing.

Your checklist

• Wink login created
• Creator account created, with the right name
• Storefront set up: picture, description, your links, Intelligent on
• First hotels saved to a list
• First bookable link made
• Link shared and labelled as a partner link
• Bank account added and marked Primary