Fernwayer's Affiliate Program

Join Fernwayer's Affiliate Program and earn competitive commissions by championing the human side of travel — and the rare, curated experiences that bring it to life.

Fernwayer is a curated marketplace for private day tours and experiences — co-created with photographers, fishermen, artisans, historians, chefs, architects, naturalists, and other cultural curators who are deeply tied to place. We don't simply select pre-existing tours; we work with these Experience Makers to shape and co-create each encounter around their knowledge, passions, and perspectives. The result is not a generic tour, but carefully structured access to living culture — bookable instantly, and built around the people, stories, and traditions that give travel meaning.

Who This Program Is For

This program is specifically designed for digital content creators, travel bloggers, and social media voices who want to earn by recommending high-value, authentic experiences to their audience.

$400 – $500

TYPICAL BOOKING VALUE

Earnings scale with the experiences your audience chooses — from typical bookings to the most exclusive one-off journeys.

3% to 4%

PERFORMANCE-BASED COMMISSION

Meaningful payouts on every completed booking, given the value of what your audience is buying. Cross $15K in completed booking value in a calendar year, and earn 4% on every booking the following year.

60-day cookie

DOUBLE THE INDUSTRY STANDARD

Most programs offer 30 days. Ours gives your audience time to decide — and you full credit when they do.

800+ rare experiences

ACROSS 14 COUNTRIES

Co-created with handpicked and vetted experience makers, bookable by your audience anywhere.

Important note: This is a referral-based affiliate program only. You share Fernwayer with your audience, and earn commission when they book directly on our site. It is not a wholesale, reseller, or white-label arrangement — we do not offer net rates, API access, or the ability to book on a client's behalf.

Why Join Fernwayer's Affiliate Program?

As a Fernwayer affiliate, you bring rare experiences to your audience — private, individually crafted, and shaped with the people who live the cultures they reveal. Your 3% commission reflects the high-value nature of these tours.

A new kind of experience inventory. Until now, the encounters Fernwayer offers may have existed but were nearly impossible for travelers to find, trust, and book. Fernwayer changed that — without flattening their humanity. As an affiliate, you're not promoting another booking platform. You're surfacing something that didn't exist as a product before.
You give them access to what they can't easily find. Most high-end travelers can sort their own flights and hotels. What they don't have is the local access or trusted context to find the experiences that will actually define their trip. That's what your recommendation gives them.
Where the money actually goes. When your audience books a Fernwayer experience through your link, more than 80% of what they pay reaches the experience makers and their local collaborators — sustaining traditions, livelihoods, and knowledge systems. A fourth-generation fisherman supporting the ecology of the Venice lagoon. A UNESCO-recognized shadow-puppetry master practicing in Istanbul. A creative center for older women in Lisbon. A research center helping the axolotl salamander return to its native wetland in Xochimilco. A 26th-generation Shinto priest whose family has watched over a Kanazawa shrine for centuries. The trip is rare; what it sustains is rarer still.

How It Works

Apply

Fill out our 2-minute form. We vet every partner to ensure a brand fit.

After approval, use your unique tracking links in blogs, newsletters, or social bios.

Earn

Receive your commission on every completed booking, with rates rising as you grow.

Creators We Work Best With

Travel newsletter writers with engaged subscribers
Long-form travel creators on YouTube or blogs
Instagram and TikTok voices whose audience trusts their taste
Creators covering slow travel, cultural heritage, food, design, or photography
Anyone whose readers travel deliberately

What You Can Earn

Our objective: High-trust audiences sending high-intent traffic to high-value bookings. The amounts below reflect total booking value — what your audience pays for the experience.

5 bookings/month at $400 – $500 each

$60 – $75/mo at 3%
$80 – $100/mo at 4%

5 bookings at $1,000+ each

$150/mo at 3%
$200/mo at 4%

5 bookings/month at $1,500+ each

$225+/mo at 3%
$300+/mo at 4%