FAQs
Still Curious? We’ve Got You. We've Got You.
Got questions? You're not alone. We get it—TravelNet does a lot, and it's unlike anything the travel industry has seen before. That’s why we’ve pulled together answers to the things people ask us most.
Have a look below—your answer might be just a scroll away.
General Questions
TravelNet is a unique platform designed to solve the biggest challenges in the travel industry. We connect travelers, businesses, and content creators through personalized tools, hyper-targeted marketing, emotional-intent mapping and innovative solutions like TravelNet ID. By addressing issues like overcrowded destinations and lack of personalization, we aim to make travel better for everyone.
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The Travel Knowledge Graph is at the core of our platform. It is an ambitious and long term project that already covers millions of data points related to travel (destinations, experiences, human interests related to travel, landmarks, travel industry businesses, etc.) and we are constantly adding more. The end goal, which we are making steady progress towards, is to have a complete sum of all knowledge about everything related to travel. Once complete, the result will be a one of a kind “travel superbrain”. Imagine a superhuman who is a travel agent and local tour guide in one, and has a complete, human-like understanding of every square inch of our planet and can answer any travel related question, no matter how complex or unique. That is the TravelNet Travel Knowledge Graph.
AI travel planners like ChatGPT rely on scraped internet data, mixing facts with inaccuracies, often suggesting places that don’t exist or outdated recommendations. They’re biased toward popular spots and can’t uncover hidden gems. TravelNet’s Knowledge Graph is different—built on real, verified data and real-time updates, it offers accurate, personalized travel insights beyond the tourist traps.
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Yes, this is possible on request, on an individual, case-to case basis for now. We may make this a permanent feature if there is enough demand for it. We believe that the hope that your customers won't find out about your competitors or compare you to them is not a realistic approach in today's always-online and connected internet reality, but if this is important to you, we understand and will support you.
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During the international launch campaign of our platform on 2025, we are offering Founding Memberships in every category - both for businesses and publishers/content creators. The Founding Membership for publishers and content creators is FREE, all you have to do is apply. For all other businesses, we are subsidizing the membership fee of our Founding Members by 75% to 95% while also adding a long list of LIFETIME perks and benefits.
The reason for this is twofold: One, we are doing this to solve the chicken/egg problem every new platform has to contend with: to attract consumers to the platform, we need providers and content, but sellers and content creators understandably prefer to join an established platform that already has customers. Those are obviously conflicting requirements - every new platform has to start somewhere and it can't bring in customers until there is something there for them to look at. As innovators and early adopters ourselves, it was obvious to us that the solution is to partner with like-minded innovative businesses, creators and publishers, and to provide them with incentives to join us during the pre-launch phase so we can build the platform, the content and the offers together.
Second, we acknowledge that your first membership year with us will be unique: it is the time for laying the groundwork, sowing the seeds to reap long term benefits. To make it worthwhile for those who trust us and decide to work with us during this huge and concerted effort to build something amazing, we are offering once-in-a-lifetime benefits, discounts and support to our Founding Members that we won't offer ever again. This is to express our appreciation to you, as a Founding Member - and while we are only offering these incredible benefits prior to our official launch, the benefits are provided for life to all of our Founding Members. For more details, see here: https://travelnet.biz/founding-member/
Content Creator Questions
Unfortunately, multiple AI companies trained their AI by scraping and then integrating content from others into their own knowledge base, using publishers' and content creators's work while giving them no credit, links to the source, or any benefit. We consider this unfair. What we do with others' content is very similar to that Google does for its search engine: we index it and link to it. This mean making the original content findable when our user perform a search using our tools. Just like Google's search results, we may use an image, logo, a placeholder and a short extract from the original to help our users understand what to expect, but we don't show or store the full content - instead, we link and direct our users to the original. This is what we believe in. We appreciate the hard work of publishers and content creators, and want their original content to be found by our users, to help them with their creative, marketing and monetization goals.
If our indexing algorithm found it, or you submitted it to us, after indexing it, we will show a link to your content for relevant searches, but not the original content itself. For that, we always link to the source. We may use an image, logo, a placeholder and a short extract from the original to help our users understand what to expect when clicking on a link (just like Google search results). We believe in win-win cooperation with publishers and content creators, not replacing them.
TravelNet moves beyond traditional affiliate marketing by rewarding content creators with ongoing revenue from referred users. Unlike intrusive ads, we focus on enhancing the user journey through personalized, relevant offers during research and planning. Creators earn long-term income from a fair revenue-sharing model tied to meaningful engagement, not one-off sales.
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I am monetizing with affiliate links, ads or partnerships, and I understand that your approach could take more time to get to the sale, so I don't want to lose my existing income source(s).
Absolutely! You can keep affiliate links, ads or any other revenue sources on your site while working with us. We don't tell you what to do with your site, your content or your marketing, especially if it is working for you. We just give you better tools and more options to do more, be more efficient, make more money, serve your audience better, and spend more time doing what you love and less time doing what you don’t.
We divide commissions three ways:
- 20% of our commission goes to the "first click" referral source
- 30% of our commission goes to the "last click" referral source
- 50% of our commission is what covers all of our, and our partners' expenses, including creating and maintaining our platform and services and supporting our marketplace
You may think "why would I settle for 20% or 30% if I can keep 100% of my commission if I work directly with companies as an affiliate?", which is a fair question.
Actually, you can expect to have more revenue from those apparently "lower percentages" than the theoretical 100% you are comparing it with. There are multiple reasons for this. Our platform is not designed for one-off sales like most affiliate marketing programs. We believe in marketing being a service, and we use a balanced high tech approach to recommend the right things to the right people at the right time. We are also constantly adding new revenue sources, and our partners will always benefit from all of them. So while you could convert a handful of people for a one-off sale using a traditional affiliate link, by providing our tools to your visitors, you actually help them enter into a long-term relationship with us that can result in a lifetime of purchases, all of which you will be earning revenue from if you are their "first click" referrer.
There is no such thing as "cookie lifetime" or expiration of your affiliate links with us. We believe that this is a win for all involved, and better on the long term than the shortsighted attempts by typical affiliate marketing programs that focus on a badly timed, low-converting immediate sale at the expense of depriving you of long term results. Our approach is more customer friendly, more sustainable, and should result in significantly more LTV and passive income than the traditional approach.
Yes, you can. We use the same revenue model for both B2B and B2C sales. We sell membership and marketing/advertising services to businesses and share our revenue from those with our marketing partners the same way we do B2C income from bookings and consumer sales (see previous question for details).
Destination Questions
We will provide the following data, base on every Point of Interest that is related to your Destination:
- An analysis of the Views of each Point of Interest or Information
- An analysis of the Clicks of each Point of Interest or Information
- An analysis of the Saves of each Point of Interest or Information
- A keyword report to how your destination is performing for specific keywords, interests and search terms, and showing additional untapped opportunities
Any content creator partnership will be contract-based and managed directly between you and the bloggers. We can help you find the right ones, we can connect you with them, but the content creators are independent from us, our role is a marketplace and a connection platform. As a platform, we facilitate the collaboration between bloggers and destinations, making it easy to establish mutually beneficial partnerships. You’ll have the ability to launch targeted campaigns where bloggers can submit their offers, or you can create influencer campaign groups, involving multiple influencer and content creators working together on your campaign. If you need it, we can also introduce you to our partners who are able to manage entire influencer marketing campaigns, but this would be separate from our role as we don’t have the resources to manage individual campaigns.
All such partnerships will be compensated collaborations, either through monetary compensation or in exchange for deals such as sponsored stays and experiences in your destination, arranged directly between you and the content creators/influencers involved.
At launch, the platform will be available exclusively in English. While we plan to add more languages in the future, to avoid delaying functional priorities in building the platform, we decided to leave translations to a later stage, and for now, stick with English, as the most widely used language in international travel.
No, we are launching B2B2C. Since we already have access to all major attractions and points of interest, along with their corresponding affiliate links, we will also be launching the platform directly to consumers. The Photo Contest will play a key role in our launch, helping us attract millions of users within just a few weeks.
At the same time, we will be onboarding businesses in the region as members of the platform, allowing them to replace affiliate links with their own direct booking links. In fact, we will begin onboarding businesses even before the launch campaign to ensure a smooth transition and maximize impact.
