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Frequently Asked
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What are the payment rates?
To become a member, you must pay an annual subscription
fee of Rs 5,000, which is to be renewed annually.In
addition, for every reservation you receive with a
reference from The Blue Yonder Associates, you will pay
us an “honest commission” of 5% of the total booking
fee. As the regular Travel Agent’s Commissions (TAC)
ranges from 15-20%, this is a small amount to pay for
joining the club of Responsible Tourism
What
is an honest commission?
Honest commission is
based on mutual trust. When guests contact you directly
with a reference to The Blue Yonder Associates, we
expect you to pay us 5% of the total booking fee.
All the members in the Association run their businesses
in a responsible way and we believe that we should
continue to do this in terms of acknowledging the source
of business as well. The Blue Yonder Associates is
not a travel agent. When your guests acknowledge The
Blue Yonder Associates whilst confirming the booking, we
expect you to pay us 5% commission of the total price.
When guests learn about your property through our
websites, we will provide them with a direct link to
your website together with contact numbers and emails
that you provided. If you take a booking for a guest
through a travel agent, you are usually paying anything
between 10-20% on your rack rate. However, by adopting
this method you are avoiding the middleman and are
interacting directly with your guests from the initial
stage of enquiry.
How does The Blue Yonder Associates know that a property
has taken the booking based on references from The Blue
Yonder Associate website?
That’s precisely the reason why we call the commission
an ‘honest’ commission. We do not intend to monitor if
the booking you have taken was via guests who used our
site as reference. However, we do expect you to let us
know whenever you take a booking with a reference to The
Blue Yonder Associates, as this will help us to keep
track of the business we have generated for you. You
will then be invoiced on a monthly basis and payment
should be made by the end of each month.
As most of our guests approach us because they wish to
take part in responsible holidaying; they are honest and
will let us know if they have used our website to book
your property.
Do the guests also pay a commission to you for your
service?
No, the guests pay only you for their booking.
Is the commission the same for The Blue Yonder and The
Blue Yonder Associates?
No. You pay an honest commission of 5% to The Blue
Yonder Associates if the booking comes via a guest who
uses the Associates site as a reference. This is a
direct business transaction between you and the guests.
If the booking comes from The Blue Yonder, it is based
on what you pay regularly as the industry standard for
Travel Agents Commission.
How are we going to be represented on your website?
Our guests or any one browsing
theblueyonderassociates.com will be able to search by
locations and categories. You will be provided with a
well-designed webpage for your property that gives a
description of your property, its facilities and
specializations along with the declared responsible
tourism policies. You can check a sample web page
here:
BTW, do you follow a
responsible tourism policy?
Yes. We do have responsible tourism policies. Our
responsible tourism policies are based on the economic,
social and environmental policies formulated by The Blue
Yonder. Please click
here.
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