Working With Club Canary, The Local Tour Platform In The Canary Islands

Send a complete email to office@clubcanary.com with the subject “New Excursion Partner Proposal”. Include your company name and legal entity, website, valid licensing and insurance, exact commission percentage you can offer Club Canary, confirmation of price consistency with your direct channel, what makes your activity unique, three to five high-quality photos, and links to your existing reviews on TripAdvisor, Google, or Trustpilot. Complete proposals get faster replies, usually within one business day.

No. Becoming a Club Canary partner is selective. We evaluate every proposal based on demand for your category, competition with existing partners we already trust, commission structure, your reputation and reviews, your licensing status, and long-term viability. If we already have too many similar excursions, or if adding you would damage an existing partner we work with, we will tell you honestly.

Our recruitment priorities vary by island. Tenerife and Gran Canaria are highly selective because our partner network is already strong there. Fuerteventura and Lanzarote remain open for quality additions. La Palma and La Gomera are our expansion priorities for 2026 and beyond, so we are actively recruiting operators across all experience categories on both islands, including boat trips, hiking guides, stargazing operators, food experiences, and cultural tours.

We expect fair commission that is at least as favorable as what you offer global aggregator platforms like the big online tour sites. We are a locally registered Spanish company that pays taxes here and reinvests heavily in marketing that brings you direct bookings. If your commission to Club Canary would be lower than what aggregators receive, the partnership will not move forward. Commission must reflect the value of local promotion and curated platform placement.

No. Price consistency is non-negotiable. The price on Club Canary must match your direct price exactly. We operate a Best Price Guarantee, and our travelers trust that booking through us is never more expensive than booking elsewhere. If your business model relies on undercutting your distribution partners, we will not collaborate. This rule protects our reputation, our travelers, and your other partners.

No. Even after accepting a partnership, we cannot promise a prime position on our website. Placement depends on real performance: traveler reaction, conversion rates, reviews, comparison to existing options, and how the listing fits our overall catalogue. We optimize what gets shown to travelers based on what genuinely works for them, not based on partner requests.

We offer two paths. The formal affiliate partnership is for luxury travel networks, established concierges, and serious B2B platforms with proven volume. It requires a minimum of 20,000€ annual sales volume and includes a tracked discount code, dedicated dashboard, custom commission agreement, and priority support. Below that volume, we offer the Curated Client Service: agents send us their client’s request, receive a partner discount, charge their client our standard website price, and keep the margin as commission, acting as the trusted advisor coordinating the trip.

Building a tracked affiliate code, integrating it into our commission systems, dashboards, and operations takes serious time. We have learned that many agents promise massive client volumes that never materialize. The 20,000€ annual threshold ensures the partnership is worth the investment for both sides. Below that level, the Curated Client Service model works much better because it has no integration overhead and serves smaller agents more flexibly.

Yes, very much so. Journalists, bloggers, podcasters, researchers, and producers can email office@clubcanary.com with the subject “Press Inquiry” and we respond within 24 hours, often much faster. Founder Roy Schijvens has worked 70-plus hour weeks since founding Club Canary on 16 August 2019, with thousands of hours of direct Canary Islands tourism analysis, and he is available for interviews, written contributions, and data-backed commentary in English, Spanish, German, Dutch, French, and Italian.

We cover Canary Islands tourism trends and booking behavior by nationality, luxury tourism patterns, hotel day passes and resort partnerships, cruise passenger packages, corporate and incentive travel, the Canary Islands street excursion industry, tour operator dynamics and platform economics, private jet and helicopter travel growth, local event logistics including Tenerife Carnival, and travel industry insights specific to each Canary Island.

No. We do not pay influencers, ever. We are a luxury Canary Islands tour platform, and being associated with Club Canary tends to help an influencer’s personal brand more than the other way around. For select serious creators with established audiences and genuine alignment to luxury or Canary Islands travel, we sometimes offer complimentary access to experiences in exchange for authentic, well-produced content. We never support staged private jet shoots, rented luxury car photos, or borrowed-lifestyle marketing.

We decline operators who sell direct cheaper than through us (undercutting our Best Price Guarantee), operators offering global aggregators higher commission than us, partners too similar to existing options in our catalogue, operators without valid Spanish licenses and insurance, short-term operators planning to quit within months, influencers requesting cash payment, formal affiliate proposals below 20,000€ annual volume, and any proposal built on staged or fake-lifestyle marketing.

It depends entirely on the quality and reach of the opportunity. We do not respond to generic paid placement pitches from in-flight magazines, low-circulation publications, or unknown events asking for sponsorship fees. We are not a company that needs to buy our way into coverage, and real travelers who care about quality already find us through honest reputation. However, we are genuinely open to selective opportunities with established editorial outlets, recognized journalists working on real stories, and high-profile local events that align with our brand and reach our actual audience. If the opportunity has genuine authority and a real audience match, we are happy to discuss. If it does not, we respectfully decline.

Yes, and this is a market we want to grow seriously. Cruise ships dock at specific harbors across the Canary Islands, like Santa Cruz in Tenerife, and the current excursion offering at these ports is often overpriced, low quality, and chosen by cruise lines based on commission rather than genuine value for passengers. We already build tailored excursion packages for cruise passengers, but we want to do more, and we want to do them better. If you are a tour operator with high-quality experiences that work logistically with cruise ship schedules and harbor locations, please contact office@clubcanary.com with the subject “Cruise Ship Excursion Partnership”. We are actively looking to dominate this segment with real quality, not commission-driven mediocrity.

Club Canary focuses on real fun, real experiences, and real adventure. We do not promote timeshare presentations, sales-pitch tours, or any activity that uses “free excursion” as a hook for high-pressure selling. We do not promote farm visits or local product tours that exist primarily to sell overpriced bottles, jars, or memberships at the end. We do not promote any experience where the actual activity is a thin disguise for a sales funnel. Our travelers come for adventure, culture, food, water sports, helicopter tours, yacht charters, and genuine local discovery. Anything that betrays that promise, we decline.