Look who has moved on to other pastures: https://frequentfloaters.com/author/rene/

https://frequentfloaters.com/our-authors/

How much does the cruise industry pay for online advertisement placement/sponsorship and in lucrative referral business to those sending business their way? I don’t recall Deltapoints being big into covering the cruise industry.

Must be the "new thing." I've noticed that TPG now has a substantial number of cruise posts, with Gene Sloan among my favorite bloggers now.

Royal Caribbean pays a 4% affiliate commission.

I'm not in the blogging business. How does that compare with credit card commissions?

Similar to hotel bookings but clearly off far higher rates.

4% for a $3000-6000 booking wouldn't be so unusual, right?

Some people pay $10k+ for cruises. 4% of that isn't so bad, but I assume that the market for people willing to spend $0-$700 for a bank card fee is much bigger and less capped in the US than the market of Americans willing to pay $10k+ for a cruise in a year.

I read somewhere that the average cruise (ticket only) was $1200-$1500 pp. So $50-$60 per person booking would be my guess. Maybe that was on Caribbean cruises many of which are shorter and cheaper than other types.

Credit car referrals earn $100 - $300+ per sign-up.

BUT you have to truly be a titan to get cc affiliate $. Just about anyone can get a cruise affiliate link.

Now compare that to an Amazon affiliate link, some of which are down to1% .

I've never been on one, but that appears to be a good range for a COUPLE (do people go on cruises alone!?).

Sure. But, again, getting that cc affiliate link ain't easy! Never was, but now it's even more exclusive. And you have to make your quota on a consistent basis or you lose it.

To summarize: low barrier of entry and decent commissions = flooded crise affiliate content market.

And now ChatGPT does all the content creation for you!!!!