For Travelers
Earth-hotels.com offers you an opportunity to win a bonus (see
how much it is now) just by booking your hotel online as usual. This is an incentive for you to book listed properties on our website, such as hotels, BnBs, motels and apartments. Also, you can rent cars and make flight reservations online.
How this works
When you browse through the extensive list of hotels, car rental services, flights or other paid travel services listed at Earth-hotels.com and make a booking, be sure to provide your details such as email address, name and dates of stay. Your data will be saved in our database. Then, when your booking has been realized and consumed, we do a drawing of the travel lottery in which your email address will participate.
See the key principles and advantages of the lottery:
The participation in the lottery is FREE! You will not spend a single cent in excess of the usual booking cost which is payable to the booking system or hotel/car rental/flight agent itself. The lottery charges NOTHING, you pay NOTHING to us!
Your personal data will never be shared to anyone and will be kept confidential.
If you did not win during one certain month, you are still entitiled to participate in the lottery until you finally win. It is a lifetime lottery.
There is no limitations as to the amount of eligible booking. As soon as a paid and consumed booking has been made and confirmed, the traveler is entitled to participate, be it a $20 booking or a $1000 booking.
There is no booking category limitations. Any paid booking of a hotel, air flight, car rental or any other featured paid service or product are eligible.
Only one person can be the winner in a specific month. There may a situation where there is no winner during a specific month.
Participants can track the progress of the lottery at any time on the
Lottery Info Page displaying the current number of participants, the last winner, the last winning amount, minimal and maximum winnings in a certain month, and other relevant information.
Only a paid and consumed booking is eligible to participate in the drawing. Earth-Hotels.com reserves the right to communicate with the property to check if the personal data provided at the moment of booking were correct and that the booking was actually consumed.
The drawing is done among travelers with bookings made and finished (paid and consumed) in previous months.
The winning traveler is communicated by email to determine the preferred way of payment. Currently, the options are: bank transfer, cheque, or one of online payment methods (Paypal etc.)
For Hotel Owners
The Travel Lottery Program of Earth-hotels.com is a great tool to attract more visitors to your hotel. The key idea is as follows: simply tell your clients that they can stay at your hotel
Free of Charge or with a
Great Discount. The hotel still receives its money from the traveler as usual but later, when the booking has been consumed, the traveler will receive a reimbursement, partial or full, from Earth-hotels.com. This is how it may look on your website:
see more banner options, sizes and colors here
This reimbursement will be paid from the winning in the Travel Lottery that is conducted by Earth-hotels.com. While making a booking of your hotel, travelers are requested to provide their personal data, such as email address, name, and other data that may help identify them as valid and paying clients of your hotel.
Then, Earth-hotels.com will choose one of the email addresses and announce the winner of the month. After a validation process where the paid booking is checked with the hotel or other travel service supplier, a payment will be issued to the Traveler in a convenient way, such as a cheque, bank transfer or online payment, for example, Paypal.
Benefits for the hotel
Competitive advantage over your competition by telling your clients that they may have a huge discount, up to 100%, for your hotel
Improve conversion rates and sales to clients coming through your website
It costs you nothing, no additional, hidden costs or strings attached.
You get your booking money as usual, your clients receive an opportunity to get reimbursed for the stay in your hotel.
Clients don't leave your website when they are requested to fill in the travel lottery form. The mechanism is designed to make sure that visitors stay on your website and are not distracted from making the booking.
Requirements
Participation is 100% free.
Get the Lottery Banner code on the
Banner Options page and put it to the most visible parts of your website, for example, your main index page, booking page, rates page etc. See that the invitation to participate in the lottery pops up when you click on the banner.
All the above steps are only made once. Then, you don't need to worry about how the Lottery is functioning. The only further communication with Earth-hotels.com can be when we request to confirm that a certain person (lottery winner) actually did have a paid and consumed booking of the hotel or travel services.
