How an Airbnb Host Earns Commission Recommending Tours

How does an Airbnb host earn commission with Luxor?

An Airbnb host has something many tour operators don't: a guest who already trusts them, staying minutes away from the experiences they want to have in the city. That moment - check-in, the first welcome message, the question "what do you recommend I do here?" - is exactly where Luxor, Skyline's ambassador program, turns a recommendation you were going to give away for free into a commission that lands in your account.

The logic is simple: you sign up as an ambassador, get your own page with verified experiences, share it with your guests, and earn a commission on every booking that comes from your link. No contract, no fine print, no complex system to learn. Let's walk through the full flow, start to finish, with an example.

What does a host need to start recommending tours?

No upfront investment. The ambassador role is free, and your own link or QR is ready in minutes. This matters because a host isn't a tourism business - they're someone managing an apartment or a house, without the time or budget to get into complicated marketing tools.

When you sign up, you get your own page on a subdomain with your name (yourname.skyln.co), where verified experiences from Skyline's partner network appear. That page comes with editable order, highlights and look, so you can decide which tours to show first: the ones you like best, the ones that fit your type of guest, or the ones that pay the best commission.

The starting point: your ambassador page

Think of Camilo, a host who manages two apartments in El Poblado. Before Luxor, when a guest asked "what tour do you recommend?", Camilo would answer over WhatsApp with names of operators he knew, earning nothing from those recommendations and with no way to know if the guest ever actually booked.

With his ambassador page, Camilo organizes his recommendations: at the top he puts a graffiti tour through the comuna, then a jeep tour through eastern Antioquia, and at the bottom a nighttime food experience. All of it is verified by the network, with real prices and availability, and every experience has his personal link behind it.

How does the welcome message with the link work?

This is the step that turns a casual conversation into income. Camilo has a saved welcome message he sends to every guest as soon as their apartment booking is confirmed, something like: "Welcome to Medellín! Here are my favorite recommendations in the city, with easy booking and payment: [his link]." The guest clicks, sees the page with the experiences, and picks whichever one catches their eye.

Camilo doesn't need to be available all day explaining schedules or answering payment questions - the page already has that information, and the guest can book directly there. That's key for a host who usually has several guests at once and can't turn into a full-time travel agent.

Variations on the same flow

The welcome message is the most natural moment, but not the only one. A host can also:

• Leave the link or a printed physical QR on the entryway table, next to the keys.
• Share it in the check-in chat, when the guest asks about plans.
• Send it a day after arrival, once the guest has settled in and starts thinking about their itinerary.

In any of these cases, the link is the same: the ambassador's page with their personal brand, not a generic list of operators.

What happens when the guest books?

Here's the heart of the model. When the guest clicks Camilo's link and books any experience from that page, the booking is recorded under Camilo's name, and he earns a commission on that booking. It doesn't matter if the guest books that same moment or a few hours later - as long as it comes from the link, attribution works.

This removes the friction that used to exist: Camilo no longer has to chase the operator asking "hey, did the guest I sent you actually book?", or take anyone's word for it. The system connects the link to the booking automatically.

Following the example, say two of Camilo's guests in the same week book the graffiti tour and the jeep trip to eastern Antioquia from his link. Both bookings get attributed to him, with his corresponding commission, without Camilo having to do any manual follow-up or message anyone to confirm the deal.

Where does the host see their commission?

In their real-time earnings panel. There Camilo sees the bookings attributed to his link and the commissions he's owed for each one, without depending on anyone sending him a message or a report. It's the same thing you'd expect from any serious affiliate program, but applied specifically to verified tourism experiences, with real prices and availability behind them.

This panel is also what gives peace of mind to a host who's just starting out: they can see, day by day, whether their recommendations are working, which experiences generate more bookings, and adjust the order of their page accordingly. If the graffiti tour converts better than the jeep trip, Camilo can move it to the top of his page.

Summary table: the full flow

A real case: Valentina Calle

This model isn't theoretical. Valentina Calle, an Airbnb host in Medellín, already operates as an ambassador within the network with her own page. Her case shows that the flow - own page, link shared with guests, commission per booking - works in practice for someone who welcomes travelers every day and wants to turn those conversations into extra income, without becoming an expert in tourism or technology.

What does a host who isn't recommending tours today lose out on?

If you currently answer your guests' questions about what to do in the city and earn nothing for it, you're leaving money on the table twice: once because the recommendation generates no income for you, and again because the guest is probably searching for those options on a generic OTA or a rule-based chatbot that doesn't know your city the way you do.

With Luxor, that same conversation - the one you're already having anyway - turns into a link with your name, a page built around your judgment, and a panel where you watch the commission come in. It doesn't change your job as a host; it just adds a layer you used to give away for free.

Next step

If you manage one or several listings and want to start earning from the recommendations you already make, sign up as an ambassador through Skyline's onboarding flow and choose the ambassador focus to have your page ready in minutes.

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