A Panionfor everydestination

Panion is the network for people who know places. You curate your favourite spots, get a personal page and a link to share, and earn when travellers book through you. Every recommendation has a real human's name and face on it. No algorithms, no faceless brands.

Because nobody trusts a faceless website anymore. Travellers want a recommendation from someone who's actually been. Panion is built so every link, every list, and every page traces back to a real person you can put a face to.

No. The strongest Panions are usually regular people. Airbnb hosts, locals who love their city, expats, friends who always plan the trip, restaurant owners. If you'd already recommend it to a friend, you can be a Panion.

We're starting in Norway, where the network is strongest, and growing from there. If you've got local knowledge somewhere else and want to be one of the first Panions in your spot, get in touch.

Sign up free, pick the spots and experiences you actually recommend, and we'll give you a personal page with a link and QR code. Stick it in your welcome book, your bio, your group chat, wherever your friends and guests already find you.

Around 10-20% of every booking that comes through your link, depending on the activity. We track it in real time, and you get paid monthly. No targets, no minimums. Only earn when someone you sent actually books.

Nope. The whole point is that you're not selling. You're just sharing what you'd recommend anyway. Panion is your wingman: we handle the booking and the payout, you stay yourself.

Yes, but only if there's a real person fronting the recommendations. Hotels, hostels, even tour operators. The Panion page belongs to a human at the company, not the company itself. Faces convert, logos don't.

30 days from the visitor's first touch with your profile or board. Anything they book on panion.travel in that window is credited to you, even if they leave your board and book something else. An earlier referral from another Panion is not overwritten.

Yes, within the same 30 days. After that, credit goes to whoever's recommendations the email contains.

On panion.travel, on your own product page with Panion's checkout. Payment settles straight into a merchant account in your name with our payment partner SagaPay (Surfboard Payments). Panion's commission is split off at settlement, so there is no invoicing between us. To set up the merchant account, a signatory at your company signs the agreement and provides payout bank details; it is usually live within a day of that.

First touch, for 30 days. When a visitor arrives through a Panion's profile or recommendation, that Panion is credited for anything the visitor books on panion.travel in the following 30 days, even if they browse other experiences first. Panion pays the Panions from its own share; you never handle that side.

Yes. You pause or resume any product at any time from your dashboard, with immediate effect. If you pause, we can keep the page visible but not bookable if you prefer that for search reasons.

By default every Panion on the platform can recommend them. Commission is set per product and can also be set per Panion, and we can exclude an individual Panion from a product on request.

Listing is free. You pay a commission on completed sales, at a level you set, never on views or clicks. The higher the commission, the more the Panions push your product. Panion typically passes two thirds of the commission to the Panion who made the recommendation and keeps one third.

Very little. Connect your booking system to Panion. For iTicket, create a booking channel of the external type "OCTO Open API" under Sales and Distribution, assign the products, and send us the API key. Bokun and others connect from your Panion dashboard. Availability, prices and tickets then come straight from your system, with nothing to maintain on our side or yours.

The commission follows the customer. If a Panion brought the customer, that Panion is credited for any further booking the customer makes through Panion within the 30 days, including from our after-sales emails. Your own products are never commissioned in those emails, and we never re-recommend what the customer just bought.

You arrive on a Panion's page through their link or QR code, pick what looks good, and book through Panion's own checkout. Pay by card, Apple Pay or Google Pay through our payment partner SagaPay. Your tickets and confirmation arrive by email from Panion straight away, and the booking goes directly into the operator's own booking system. Same process as any booking site, except a real person stood behind the recommendation.

Cancellation policies are set by each operator and shown clearly before you book. Refunds go back to your original payment method under the operator's policy, usually a full refund if cancelled at least 24-48 hours in advance.

Most of the time, they find you. Your Airbnb host hands you their link. A friend shares theirs before your trip. The host of the place you booked has a QR code in the welcome book. Eventually we'll have a public directory; for now, the magic is in the personal hand-off.