Calling all students — turn your sharing time into real cash
Want a part-time job you can do from your phone, and still dream of one day traveling to China yourself? Here is the cleanest way to do both. The LinkedTours Student Referral Program gives you your own personal link to our China tours. You share that link with people in your community and with adults in other regions. When one of them books a tour through your link and pays us in full, you earn 3% of everything they paid us, paid to you in cash through Payoneer. Your customer gets 3% off the tour price at the same time. That is the whole deal: your reward is cash, not points and not a voucher.
You can start this in your free time, between classes, on weekends, or during holidays. No experience, no office, no equipment. Just your link and your network.
How it works — four steps
Step 1 — Apply and get your own referral link
Email sales@linkedtours.com. Tell us your name, your age, your country, and the Payoneer account you want to be paid into (if you are under 18, that should be a parent or guardian's Payoneer account). We send you back your own referral link — a normal LinkedTours tour link with your personal code on the end of it, so we can always tell which bookings came from you.
Wait for our confirmation reply before you start sharing. We activate your link personally, and a referral only counts once your link is live.
Step 2 — Share it with real people
Send your link to adults you know and adults you do not know yet: parents' friends, relatives in other cities, your school or club group, your community, alumni chats, sports and hobby groups, neighborhood groups, online travel communities, social media. Any adult who has ever said “we should really go to China one day” is a good prospect. Recommend the tours you would actually pick for them — a first trip to China is usually Beijing, Xi'an and the Terracotta Warriors, a Yangtze cruise, Guilin and the countryside, a school trip, or a tailor-made family holiday.
One small thing to ask them to do: mention your referral code when they write to us, or simply tell them to say they heard about us from you. That is how we confirm who deserves the credit, so nothing gets missed.
Step 3 — They book, and they pay us in full
Your customer books the tour they want and pays the full amount to our company account, either by wire transfer (TT) or by Payoneer. Both are accepted, and the bank details are on our How to Pay page. Your 3% reward is only unlocked after that money has actually reached our account — which means you never have to chase your customer for payment, and never handle their money yourself.
Step 4 — We pay you through Payoneer
We add 3% of the full amount your referral paid to your reward balance and pay it out to your Payoneer account. Simple, and it keeps going for as long as people keep saying yes.
What you earn, and what your customer pays
Here is one example, so there is no guesswork. A China tour listed at USD 2,000:
| Tour price on our website | USD 2,000.00 |
| Your customer's 3% discount | − USD 60.00 |
| What your customer actually pays us | USD 1,940.00 |
| Your reward: 3% of what they paid | USD 58.20 |
Two bookings like that and your balance is USD 116.40. Ten of them and you have USD 582. Twenty, and you are past USD 1,000 — enough to cover a good part of your own trip to China. Every booking counts, and there is no cap on how many people you can recommend.
Traveling with your own family or friends
If the people who book through your link are your own family or friends, then everyone in that group gets 3% off the group total — no cash commission is paid on that booking. Share your link as usual, and your people simply travel for less.
How you get paid
Payoneer only. Student rewards are paid through Payoneer, because it reaches students in almost every country and lets them receive in their own currency. Set up your Payoneer account first so it is ready when your first booking lands.
USD 30 payout threshold. We run payouts once your reward balance reaches USD 30. Below that it simply keeps adding up — there is no expiry and no fee for you on our side.
Under 18? Payoneer requires the account holder to be at least 18, so if you are a minor, a parent or guardian holds the Payoneer account in their name and we pay the reward to them for you. Your referral link and your rewards stay yours either way.
Paid after the customer pays. Rewards are calculated on bookings that have been paid in full to our company account.
Payoneer may apply its own standard fees before the money lands in your account. Those fees are set by Payoneer and vary by country; the 3% figure above is the amount we send you.
Why students like this job
It is genuinely flexible. Share when you have ten minutes between classes.
No cost to you, and no risk. There is nothing to buy, nothing to stock, and no money to collect. Your customer pays us directly.
Your discount is real. 3% off a China tour is a real number — worth far more to your customer than a poster or a pen.
You are recommending something real. LinkedTours runs our own tours out of Xi'an, and the same people who take the call are the ones who answer you. No call center, no scripts you have to pretend to believe.
It builds toward your own trip. This program exists so that a student who has no savings can still get to China one day — and get there with people they know. Because your reward is real cash and not points, you can put it straight toward your own ticket.
Get started today
Send one email. That is the whole application.
Subject: Student referral program — please send me my personal link
Hello LinkedTours team,
My name is [your full name] and I am a student in [school / grade] in [city, country]. I would like to join the Student Referral Program.
My age: [your age]
Payoneer account for my reward: [your Payoneer email, or your parent or guardian's]
I am most interested in recommending: [e.g. first-time China tours, Xi'an and the Terracotta Warriors, family holidays, school trips]
Thank you!
[your name]
We will reply to confirm your link is active. From that moment on you can start sharing and earning.
Contact: sales@linkedtours.com · Browse the tours your customer will be choosing from at www.linkedtours.com.
Terms and conditions
One booking counts once. If several people share a link, the reward belongs to the student whose link the customer actually booked through.
The 3% customer discount applies to the tour price listed on our website at the time of booking, on new bookings made through your link.
A referral becomes payable when the customer has paid the full amount to our company account by wire transfer or Payoneer.
If a booking is cancelled and refunded, the matching reward is reversed.
We are happy to help you check a booking before it goes through. Just email us the link you sent and the booking reference.
Terms and conditions apply. Rewards are cash paid via Payoneer and are not travel credit. Full terms are sent to you when we confirm your registration, and are available on request at sales@linkedtours.com.
