The Short Version
Some links on this site are affiliate links. When you click one and complete a booking with the partner, Visit Israel earns a commission at no additional cost to you. The price you pay is identical to the price you would pay if you had typed the partner’s URL directly. This is a Federal Trade Commission requirement, and you will see a short inline disclosure card above every affiliate link on every page on the site — that is the FTC’s “clear and conspicuous” standard in action.
We use affiliate income to fund the editorial work behind this guide: research, image licensing, native Hebrew rewriting, and the accessibility and compliance infrastructure that an Israeli site must maintain. We do not run sponsored sections. We do not accept paid placement. Every partner listed below is one we have evaluated against the same editorial criteria, and we link to whichever partner the visitor’s research is most likely to convert with — not whichever partner pays the highest commission.
Why an Affiliate Disclosure Page Exists
The United States Federal Trade Commission requires anyone who earns commission from product or service recommendations to disclose that relationship “clearly and conspicuously” — at the point of recommendation, not buried in a footer. Israel’s Consumer Protection Law (1981) and the EU Digital Services Act apply parallel rules. We comply with all three by:
- Publishing this stand-alone disclosure page.
- Linking to it from the site footer on every page.
- Rendering an inline disclosure card (the
<AffiliateDisclosure>component) above the first affiliate link on every monetised page. The card sits within the first viewport of mobile and desktop both — exactly where the FTC says it must. - Adding
rel="sponsored nofollow noopener"plustarget="_blank"to every affiliate anchor so search engines and assistive technologies know the link is paid.
Our 11 Affiliate Programmes
| Partner | What they sell | Status |
|---|---|---|
| Booking.com | Hotels, apartments, B&Bs | Active |
| Civitatis | Tours and activities (Spanish-market strong) | Active |
| Viator | Tours, day trips, experiences (Tripadvisor’s marketplace) | Active |
| GetYourGuide | Tours, skip-the-line tickets | Active |
| RentalCars | Car rental aggregator (Priceline group) | Active |
| SafetyWing | Nomad travel insurance | Active |
| Skyscanner | Flight metasearch | Active |
| Hostelworld | Hostels and budget stays | Active |
| DiscoverCars | Car rental aggregator (alt to RentalCars) | Active |
| Klook | Asia-Pacific experiences | Stub (no Israel inventory at v1) |
| GoCity | Multi-attraction city passes | Stub (no Israel inventory at v1) |
The two stubs (Klook, GoCity) are listed here transparently — we evaluated them, found they do not yet carry credible Israel inventory, and chose to leave the programmes wired but the affiliate cards switched off rather than misrepresent the offering. If Klook or GoCity launch Israel coverage in a way that matches our editorial criteria, we will flip them on. The wiring is symmetrical: every helper function takes the same inputs and returns the same shape, so activating a stub is a single configuration change, not a code rewrite.
Travelpayouts
Travelpayouts is an aggregator dashboard that consolidates several of the smaller affiliate programmes (currently Skyscanner, Hostelworld, and a few of the tour partners) into one billing surface. We do not list Travelpayouts as a separate affiliate; it is an operational tool that consolidates partner payouts, not a recommendation surface. Every booking link still flows through the original partner, and the inline disclosure card refers to the partner — not to Travelpayouts.
How Partner Choice Works
When a page recommends a hotel-booking link, you will see a Booking.com card. When it recommends a tour, you will see Civitatis, Viator, or GetYourGuide. We do not run an A/B test between them on the same page. The decision is editorial: which partner’s inventory and reviewer base is most credible for that specific destination and intent? Booking.com dominates accommodation everywhere. Viator and GetYourGuide split Old City tours. Civitatis is strongest for Spanish-language traveller flows. Skyscanner is the only metasearch we link to because the meta-of-meta layer adds noise without value.
If we believe two partners are equally credible for a destination, we link to both, and the FTC inline disclosure remains a single card above both. We do not stack disclosures.
What Affiliate Income Does Not Buy
- Editorial coverage. We will not cover a hotel because the brand asked. We will not avoid covering a competitor because the brand asked. The same religious-site naming policy (Western Wall, Temple Mount / Haram al-Sharif paired, Bethlehem with administrative-status framing) applies on every page, paid links or not.
- Negative reviews suppression. We are not a reviews site. We do not collect or display user reviews. The booking partner’s own reviews are what you see when you click through.
- Sponsored sections. No page on this site is sponsored content. No partner has paid us to write a guide.
- Search-ranking manipulation. Every affiliate anchor on this site carries
rel="sponsored nofollow". We do not pass link equity to partners and we do not buy it from them.
What You Can Do
If you want to support the editorial work without spending more than you would otherwise, click through one of our partner links the next time you book Israel travel. Your price does not change. We earn a small commission. That commission funds the next region rollout.
If you prefer not to support the site with a commission, type the partner’s URL directly into your browser. We have no objection — every page is freely readable, every recommendation is based on the same editorial criteria.
Contact
For commercial-partnership inquiries or for the full list of affiliate-network IDs we operate under (CJ, Awin, Impact, Travelpayouts), email hello@visitisrael.site with Affiliate in the subject line. We reply within five business days.
This disclosure was last updated on 11 May 2026.