Top Travel Brands Hiring Creators in 2026

Last updated: June 2026

Summer is peak season for paid travel content, and the spend right now is splitting into two clear waves. The trip-planning wave (Skyscanner, KAYAK, Klook, PointsPath are all running creator content for trips happening June through August) and a brand-new wave that did not exist in spring: the 2026 World Cup wave. With the tournament landing across the US, Canada, and Mexico in June and July, travel and hospitality brands are pouring creator budget into soccer-adjacent content. Marriott Bonvoy posted from the opening match in Mexico City, United Airlines tied itself to Wrexham AFC, and city tourism boards are casting creators around watch parties and match-day weekends.

The other pattern worth knowing: international, non-English-market creators are still hugely undervalued in travel. Skyscanner's summer spend skews almost entirely toward Spanish, Mexican, and Colombian creators. If you create in a non-English market, travel is one of the easiest niches to land paid partnerships in right now.

We tracked verified paid partnerships across Instagram and TikTok in the Travel niche. Here are the brands actively hiring creators.

What's New This Month

A few shifts since the spring version of this report:

• The World Cup wave is on. Marriott Bonvoy (official-hotel-partner energy at the Mexico City opener), United Airlines (new Wrexham AFC shirt sponsor), and a wave of host-city tourism boards are all casting soccer-travel content now through July.
• Summer Mediterranean is heating up. Ferryhopper (Greek island-hopping) and Skyscanner's Spain and Colombia guides are running for trips happening right now.
• New names to pitch: PointsPath (a travel-hacking tool running comment-to-DM posts), ResortPass (day passes to hotel pools and spas), and Virgin Voyages (first-ever Alaska sailings out of Seattle) all entered the tracking window since spring.
• Counter-seasonal angle: Tasmania is funding off-season "winter travel" content for the southern-hemisphere cold months, a rare summer-northern-hemisphere opening.
• What cooled off: the spring tourism-board cluster (San Diego, Palm Beaches, Puerto Rico) and the Mexico luxury-resort launches that drove April spend have quieted down for now.

Why These Brands Matter

Every brand below has verified paid partnerships we tracked in real time. Travel is one of the highest-budget creator categories, and most of these brands are casting now for content that drops through August (peak summer travel and the World Cup window).

Lead times for travel content are short, often two to three weeks from pitch to posted, so brands casting for July content are reading pitches this week.

Top Travel Brands by Category

Flight Search & Travel Booking Apps

Booking apps are the most consistent year-round travel spenders, and they go heaviest into creator content in the summer trip-planning window.

Skyscanner

• Content Style: Destination deep dives built for saves ("INCREDIBLE summer spots in Spain," "the great unknown of Spain," Colombia "country of beauty"), price-comparison hooks, and "find your flights on Skyscanner" CTAs. Heavily save-driven captions.
• Creator Profile: International Instagram travel creators in Spanish, Mexican, and Colombian markets, roughly 88K to 168K followers (median around 137K). The most consistent travel spender we track, with fresh posts every few days.
• Pitch angle: Skyscanner runs the largest international travel creator program right now. The #SkyscannerAdvocate tag is their structured ambassador program. If you create in any non-English market, this is one of the easiest major travel pitches to land. Pitch a specific destination with concrete saves and a day-by-day map, not generic travel content.
• Verified partnership email: Unlock on CollabFeed

KAYAK

• Content Style: Witty, platform-native TikTok content ("why is it so tea to land and already be browsing for your next trip"), millennial humor, app feature demos.
• Creator Profile: Mid-to-large lifestyle TikTok and Instagram creators (82K to 613K), with very high engagement on TikTok. The #KAYAKpartner tag marks the program.
• Pitch angle: KAYAK wants personality, not destinations. Their content is platform-native (TikTok-style humor, casual captions). Pitch a creative concept around a travel feeling or moment, not a specific destination. Lead with your engagement rate, not your follower count.
• Verified partnership email: Unlock on CollabFeed

Klook

• Content Style: Experience-booking content, Tokyo "everything I did for under $40," Japanese soccer tickets, cherry-blossom hotel deal-hunting.
• Creator Profile: Asian and Asian-American Instagram travel creators (400K+).
• Pitch angle: Klook is heavily focused on East Asia and Southeast Asia, and on bookable experiences over flights. If your content covers Japan, Korea, Thailand, or Taiwan specifically, this is one of the better-paying booking partnerships. They want destination expertise tied to a specific bookable activity.
• Verified partnership email: Unlock on CollabFeed

PointsPath

• Content Style: Free-tool demos, "comment POINTS and I'll DM you the link," points-optimization that runs inside Google Flights.
• Creator Profile: Points and travel-hacking Instagram creators (around 437K), with strong engagement.
• Pitch angle: Points Path is a newer travel-hacking tool spending on comment-to-DM lead-gen posts. If your audience books flights with miles or points, this is an accessible, conversion-focused partnership. Pitch a "free tool I actually use" angle with a clear DM call to action.
• Verified partnership email: Unlock on CollabFeed

Airlines

Airlines are running active creator programs tied to status matches, route launches, and (right now) soccer sponsorships ahead of the World Cup.

Southwest Airlines

• Content Style: Status match programs ("Comment 'Match' for the link"), Rapid Rewards content, new-experience launches.
• Creator Profile: Mid-to-large Instagram creators (164K to 640K), using the #SouthwestPartner and #RapidRewardsStatusMatch tags.
• Pitch angle: Southwest's status match program drives most of their creator spend. The pitch that works: "DM your status match link." They want creators who can drive sign-ups, not just impressions.

United Airlines

• Content Style: Sports-sponsorship tie-ins, including the reveal as Wrexham AFC's front-of-shirt sponsor, leaning into soccer culture.
• Creator Profile: Surprisingly small and tightly targeted, a 6K TikTok sports creator ran the Wrexham post. United places with niche sports accounts, not just mega travel creators.
• Pitch angle: United's creator spend is leaning hard into soccer ahead of a huge 2026 World Cup summer. If you cover a specific club, league, or sports-travel angle, that's the opening, and they have clearly shown they will work with small, sharply targeted accounts.
• Verified partnership email: Unlock on CollabFeed

Hotels, Resorts & Cruises

Hotel and cruise partnerships are some of the highest-ticket travel deals available, with bigger budgets and more polished briefs.

Marriott Bonvoy

• Content Style: Big cultural moments, with the FIFA World Cup 2026 opener in Mexico City as the centerpiece this month, plus property dining and loyalty-point storytelling.
• Creator Profile: Mid-size international creators for match and property content (around 148K) up through mega-creators for marquee activations. The #MarriottBonvoyPartner tag marks the program.
• Pitch angle: Marriott Bonvoy is going all-in on the 2026 World Cup across the US, Canada, and Mexico through June and July. They split creator spend between major brand-moment partnerships (sports, culture) and individual property content. International creators have a much easier path to property-specific posts. Lead with your specific market and a specific event.
• Verified partnership email: Unlock on CollabFeed

Virgin Voyages

• Content Style: Cruise content, the first-ever Alaska sailing out of Seattle, sail-away party visuals, dedicated "creator cruise" trips.
• Creator Profile: A wide range (11K to 295K) with consistently high engagement. They run immersive creator sailings rather than one-off posts.
• Pitch angle: Virgin Voyages rewards personality and aesthetic over pure reach, they placed an 11K creator on a full creator cruise. Pitch the adults-only, party-cruise vibe. One of the better ways for a lifestyle creator to break into travel.
• Verified partnership email: Unlock on CollabFeed

Radisson Collection

• Content Style: City-break property content, Budapest sunrise spots, Fisherman's Bastion, design-hotel aesthetics.
• Creator Profile: Mid-size European Instagram travel creators (around 170K).
• Pitch angle: Radisson Collection funds aesthetic city-break content tied to a specific property. Pitch a polished itinerary built around one hotel and its city (where to eat, where to shoot, where to stay). Lead with your photography.
• Verified partnership email: Unlock on CollabFeed

ResortPass

• Content Style: Day-pass content, pool and spa access without an overnight stay, staycation and "local luxury" framing.
• Creator Profile: Mid-size US lifestyle and travel creators (around 175K).
• Pitch angle: ResortPass sells day access to hotel pools and spas, which makes it perfect for creators who post local content and don't travel far. One of the most accessible summer travel partnerships available. Pitch a "luxury day out in my own city" angle.
• Verified partnership email: Unlock on CollabFeed

Tours & Experiences

Tour and experience brands fund creators to actually go on the trip, which makes for the strongest storytelling content in travel.

Intrepid Travel

• Content Style: Small-group adventure tours, a 13-day Women's Expedition to India, Morocco hiking, "solo travel that isn't actually alone" framing.
• Creator Profile: Mid-size Instagram travel creators (40K to 128K) with very high engagement.
• Pitch angle: Intrepid funds creators to join their group trips (women's expeditions, multi-day treks). If you cover solo, female, or adventure travel, pitch a specific itinerary and a story arc, not a destination listicle. Strong engagement matters more than size here.
• Verified partnership email: Unlock on CollabFeed

Airbnb

• Content Style: Airbnb Experiences content, "visit Paris like a local," unique stays in Morocco, comment-for-the-link hooks.
• Creator Profile: Instagram creators from 46K to 446K.
• Pitch angle: Airbnb's creator spend has shifted toward Experiences (local tours and activities), not just stays. Pitch a hyper-local experience in your own city with a comment-to-DM hook. The "like a local" angle is what gets funded.
• Verified partnership email: Unlock on CollabFeed

Destinations & Tourism Boards

Tourism boards are some of the most accessible travel partnerships out there. Local organizations have real budget and respond to mid-size creators. These are casting steadily for summer and World Cup content.

Visit New Orleans

• Content Style: City weekend-guide content, "my fav finds in NOLA," Bourbon Street energy, food and nightlife spots.
• Creator Profile: Mid-size Instagram travel creators (around 182K).
• Verified partnership email: Unlock on CollabFeed

Visit Maine

• Content Style: Iconic-food destination content, "a trip to Maine isn't complete without the lobster mountain," hero summer visuals.
• Creator Profile: Tourism boards will go big for the right summer content, a 4.1M mega-creator ran this one.

Tasmania

• Content Style: Off-season travel reframing, "Tasmania's off season completely changed how I think about winter travel," cold-weather adventure.
• Creator Profile: Mid-to-large Instagram travel creators (around 214K).

Meet Minneapolis

• Content Style: City tourism with comment-to-DM trip guides ("Comment MINNEAPOLIS for the guide"), local-gem weekend itineraries.
• Creator Profile: Mid-size Instagram creators (around 137K).

Travel Gear & Connectivity

Gear and connectivity brands run year-round, code-driven programs. Lower per-post pay than booking platforms, but highly accessible to smaller creators and a fast way to land your first travel partnership.

BÉIS

• Content Style: Travel-bag and luggage aesthetic content, packing reveals, "fits everything" hooks.
• Creator Profile: Small-to-mid creators, accessible direct-to-consumer style partnerships.
• Verified partnership email: Unlock on CollabFeed

Airalo

• Content Style: eSIM tutorials, "stay connected abroad," install demos with personal discount codes.
• Creator Profile: Mid-size Instagram travel creators (around 60K).
• Verified partnership email: Unlock on CollabFeed

Ferryhopper

• Content Style: Greek and Mediterranean ferry-booking content, summer island-hopping, "it's always the right time to book a holiday."
• Creator Profile: Smaller local-language Instagram creators (around 27K).
• Verified partnership email: Unlock on CollabFeed

What's Trending Right Now

The World Cup is the single biggest travel-content driver this summer. Marriott Bonvoy, United Airlines, and a wave of host-city tourism boards across the US, Canada, and Mexico are funding soccer-adjacent content now through July. If you can connect your audience to a host city, a club, or match-day travel, this is the easiest timely pitch in travel right now.

International creator markets are still hugely undervalued. Skyscanner, Klook, Marriott Bonvoy, and several major airlines are all spending on Spanish, Colombian, Mexican, and Asian-market creators. If you create in a non-English language with a clear regional audience, travel is one of the lowest-competition niches to break into.

Mid-size creators (50K to 200K) remain the sweet spot. Most travel partnerships we tracked were placed with creators in this range. Mega-creators take longer briefs and bigger budgets, but mid-size creators are getting placed faster and more often, and engagement rate is consistently outweighing raw follower count.

Day passes and staycation content are a new accessible lane. ResortPass and similar brands are paying creators who post local content and don't travel far, which opens travel partnerships to creators who can't fly somewhere new every month.

Discount-coded gear and eSIM partnerships are still the easiest entry point. BÉIS, Airalo, Ferryhopper, and similar brands run code-driven creator programs accessible to creators in the 10K to 100K range. Lower pay than tourism boards but much faster to land.

Methodology

This report uses CollabFeed's live tracking of Instagram and TikTok sponsored posts in the Travel niche through June 22, 2026. Some partnerships referenced ran earlier in the year to give context on which brands run consistent creator programs versus one-off campaigns.

Platforms: Instagram, TikTok Data source: CollabFeed real-time partnership tracking

All brands listed have verified paid partnerships we tracked.

What's Next

We refresh this report each quarter with the latest tracked partnerships. Expect the World Cup window (June and July), Mediterranean and Asia-Pacific destination marketing, and airline status-match programs to drive most creator spend through the summer.

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Data powered by CollabFeed. Track real-time brand partnerships at collabfeed.io.