Excursiv · Partners
Partner with Excursiv
List your property, venue, or service with a platform built around underrated and exclusive experiences. Competitive commission, priority placement, and a direct relationship, not a long contract.
Apply to partnerKeep more of every booking
Our commission is set to be genuinely competitive, category by category, so more of what a guest pays ends up with you.
No long contracts
Terms are straightforward and reviewed regularly rather than locked in for years. Independent properties and larger groups are both welcome.
Priority placement
Partners get preferred position in our best sort within their city and category, ahead of unlisted or unaffiliated venues.
Real content, not stock photos
Founding partners get up to 4 hosted visits a year, each producing at least 15 edited photos and a short video, plus real posts across our own social channels. Free for both of us to use indefinitely.
How it works
Apply
Tell us about your property, venue, or service and pick your category.
We review
Independent listings need to clear a basic quality bar. Chains and established venues are reviewed the same way.
Sign terms
Commission and placement terms for your category, in plain language, nothing hidden.
Go live
Your listing goes live with a free placement window to start.
Limited to the first 20 partners
Founding partner terms
The strongest terms we'll ever offer, reserved for a small, hand-picked cohort. Zero commission for life, recurring professional content, and permanent priority placement, all in exchange for hosting our visits. Once these 20 spots are filled, every partner after joins at standard rates instead.
Commission
0%, for the life of the partnership
First-page window
60 days, your choice of window within your first year
Direct-provider priority
Permanent first pick among booking routes on your own listing, for the life of the partnership
Visits
Up to 4 a year, including the intro visit, at least 2 months apart
Comped experience
1 to 3 people per visit, one property or vendor per group
Recognition
Excursiv Star and Verified badge
Visits and content
For founding partners, this is an ongoing relationship, not a single comped visit. Here's exactly what that means, not just a general promise of photo and video.
The visits
How many
Up to 4 hosted visits a year, including the introductory visit, so 3 more after that first one, with at least 2 months between each.
Who visits
The introductory visit is someone from our team, in person. The rest are models, creators, or influencers we bring, up to 3 people per visit.
Notice
At least 4 weeks before each visit, coordinated with you directly. Scheduling is flexible, not rigid, but not something we skip.
Who's selected
We make the final call on who visits. You're welcome to suggest someone, but approval is ours to give.
If a date doesn't work
You can propose an alternative for a genuine reason. A visit isn't counted as missed just because the first date didn't work.
Conduct and safety
Every visitor signs the same waivers and safety acknowledgments any other guest would for that experience. You can object to a specific visitor only for a real, good-faith reason, like safety or a genuine conflict.
What each visit produces
Delivered to you
At least 15 edited photos and one short vertical video, at least 15 seconds, delivered within 3 weeks of the visit.
Published by us
At least one feed post or Reel, and at least 4 Instagram Stories, tagging you. We may also post to TikTok, YouTube Shorts, and Facebook.
Who produces it
All shooting, editing, and color grading is done by us or someone we bring in for it. Whoever visits is there to appear in the content, not to produce it, so the quality you get never depends on their skill.
Who pays
We cover our own travel and production costs. There's no charge to you for any of it.
Ownership and use
We own the production itself. Anyone appearing signs their own release for their likeness. You and Excursiv both get a permanent, worldwide license to use the delivered content anywhere, no expiry, no need to ask again.
Editing
You're free to crop, resize, or adapt the assets for your own use. We just ask that any edits aren't misleading about what's shown.
Your input
You can tell us which angle or feature you'd like highlighted, a room, the pool, a signature dish, before we shoot.
Approval
We'll check factual details with you before anything goes live, so nothing about your listing is wrong or misleading.
Terms by category
Founding partners pay 0% commission across every category. For standard partners, commission varies by category, since a hotel room, a nightclub table, and a safari lodge don't carry the same economics. Jump to yours below.
Stays
0% founding · 10–13% standard
Stays carries our standard rate. Founding partners host up to 4 visits a year, starting with an introductory stay of up to 3 days for up to 3 people, so we can shoot real photos and know the property firsthand rather than taking your word for it.
Adventure
0% founding · 10–12% standard
Skydiving, paragliding, scuba, guided treks. Each visit is one instance of the activity itself, whatever that actually looks like for you, a single dive or a full day trek. We don't ask for more than the experience naturally takes.
Culture & Arts
0% founding · 10–12% standard
Private museum hours, gallery previews, guided cultural tours. Each visit is a single private tour or viewing slot, the same thing a paying guest would book.
Wellness Retreats
0% founding · 10–12% standard
If what you sell is a single treatment or class, that's the visit. If your retreat is genuinely a multi day stay by design, we take your shortest available option rather than asking for the full program.
Fashion
0% founding · 10–12% standard
Private shopping appointments, atelier visits, styling sessions. For standard partners, commission is charged on the appointment fee only, never on what a guest ends up buying while they're there.
Concierge
0% founding · 10–12% standard
Private chefs, in-villa spa and massage, personal trainers, translators, car rentals, photographers. If you run one of these services or manage a roster of them for a city, this is where you belong. Each visit is one instance of the service itself, a single dinner, a single session, a day of the car.
Nightlife
0% founding · 12–15% standard
Tables carry real margin, and our standard rate here reflects that. Each visit is table or bottle service for a single night, not an ongoing arrangement.
Wildlife & Nature
0% founding · 18–22% standard
This is our highest standard commission tier, and it's set that way on purpose. Safari and wildlife travel is advisory led and high touch by nature, and the operators who do it well already work on wider margins than a typical booking platform. If your offering is a guided tour or excursion, each visit is one instance of that. If it's genuinely a lodge stay, we take the shortest one you offer.
Maritime Escapes
0% founding · 12–15% standard
Yacht and boat charters. Each visit is a single half day or full day out, not an overnight.
Pilgrimage
0% founding · 10–12% standard
Camino routes, Holy Land tours, and similar journeys. Each visit is a single segment or guided leg, not the full route. We don't list Hajj bookings, since these are managed exclusively through Saudi Arabia's official Nusuk platform and can't be booked through a third party.
Gastronomy & Dining
0% founding · 3–5%* standard
Dining works differently from everything else here for standard partners, so it's worth explaining. A standard table reservation has no transaction Excursiv can take a share of, the guest pays you directly for whatever they order. So standard reservations carry no commission, they're a straightforward listing. Commission only ever applies to prepaid or ticketed dining, tasting menus, chef's table dinners, wine pairing nights, where a real transaction happens. Founding partners pay no commission here either way. Each visit is a single tasting menu or chef's table sitting.
* Gastronomy & Dining commission applies to prepaid or ticketed dining only. Standard table reservations carry no commission.
Placement
This covers two separate things, since they work differently and last for different lengths of time.
The first-page window is temporary. Every partner starts with a guaranteed first-page window, 60 days for founding partners, 15 days for everyone else. Founding partners can pick any 60-day window within their first year, rather than starting it the moment they sign. During this window, founding partners rotate through the top of the city and category pages, so a listing might sit first one day and further down among other founding partners the next, but always ahead of standard listings. Everyone in the founding cohort gets an equal share of that top visibility over time. After the window ends, you can purchase additional featured placement.
Direct-provider priority is permanent, and it's a different thing entirely. If your specific experience can be booked through more than one route, say your own booking page and a third-party ticketing or OTA link, your route is presented as the first option among providers on that listing, for the life of the partnership. This only applies to experiences you actually control and sell yourself, not to an event or inventory you don't provide. Paid placement never affects this, it only competes for first-page visibility among standard partners.
7 days
$49
15 days
$89
30 days
$149
These are introductory rates while we're early, and they'll change as our traffic grows. Larger multi property groups can reach out directly to discuss a volume based arrangement.
Questions
Why is commission 0% for founding partners?
Because it's a stronger trade for both sides than a small revenue share would be. Instead of commission, founding partners get a standing content and marketing partnership: recurring professional photo and video, guaranteed publication, and permanent priority placement, in exchange for hosting our visits. It's not a smaller deal, it's a different one, built to be worth more than what a commission cut would ever add up to.
How long does the partnership last?
A minimum of 1 year, renewing automatically each year after that unless either side gives 30 days' notice before the anniversary. After the first year, either of us can also end it with 30 days' notice if it's genuinely not working. If it ends, your listing reverts to standard treatment, but any content already delivered and published stays live and usable by both of us.
What counts as independent versus a chain?
Independent means a single property or a small group under one owner-operator. A chain is a larger, professionally managed group of properties or venues. Both are welcome, we just size the relationship differently as things grow.
What happens after my free placement window ends?
The guaranteed first-page rotation ends, but you can renew page-one visibility at our current paid rates, which are intentionally modest right now while we're early. Separately, founding partners keep permanent direct-provider priority on their own listing, for as long as the partnership continues. Permanent means it isn't a limited-time perk, not that it survives if either side ends the relationship.
What's the difference between the Excursiv Star and Verified?
Verified means we've checked that your listing is accurate, the venue, the pricing, the details. The Excursiv Star is rarer and means someone from our team has personally experienced what you offer. Not every partner will have one, and that's intentional.
Is direct-provider priority editorial or a paid benefit?
It's a stated part of the founding partner terms, not a hidden ranking factor, and we'd rather say so plainly. For most listings, position is driven by our own algorithmic sort based on quality and relevance. For founding partners specifically, being the first pick among booking routes on your own listing reflects that someone from our team has personally experienced what you offer, the same reason behind the Excursiv Star. This only applies to experiences you actually control and sell, and only to your own listing, not across every market.
How long does approval take?
We review every application personally rather than running it through automated approval. Independent properties and venues need to clear a basic quality and presentation bar before going live, which we'll discuss directly with you.
Is the founding partner offer really limited?
Yes. We're taking the first 20 partners at these terms. Once that group is filled, new partners join at standard rates.
Full rate summary
For reference, all categories at a glance.
| Category | Founding | Standard | Chains | Founding comp |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Stays | 0% | 10–13% | 10–13% | A 3 day stay for 1 to 3 people |
| Adventure | 0% | 10–12% | 10–12% | The activity itself, sized to what you offer |
| Culture & Arts | 0% | 10–12% | 10–12% | A private tour, gallery viewing, or access slot |
| Wellness Retreats | 0% | 10–12% | 10–12% | One session, or your shortest retreat stay |
| Fashion | 0% | 10–12% | 10–12% | A personal shopping or styling session |
| Concierge | 0% | 10–12% | 10–12% | One use of the service you actually provide |
| Nightlife | 0% | 12–15% | 12–15% | Table or bottle service for one night |
| Wildlife & Nature | 0% | 18–22% | 18–22% | One guided experience, or your shortest lodge stay |
| Maritime Escapes | 0% | 12–15% | 12–15% | A half day or full day charter |
| Pilgrimage | 0% | 10–12% | 10–12% | One tour segment or guided leg |
| Gastronomy & Dining | 0% | 3–5%* | 3–5%* | A tasting menu or chef's table, one sitting |
Apply to partner
Every application is reviewed by us directly. If you manage a roster of vendors on behalf of others, such as a local concierge agency, mention that in your message.