The framing on the activity partner side is different
Bookers see 'Blue Tokai — 15% off if you book here'. Activity partners see the same venue with a different label: 'Blue Tokai — welcomes GoWith meets · public and staffed'. The offer isn't the point on that side. The public, staffed, well-lit part is.
Favouriting a venue
An activity partner can favourite any partner venue. Once an activity partner has completed three meets at the same venue, that venue surfaces on her profile as 'usually meets at Blue Tokai, Bandra W' — visible to bookers when they browse.
That is a safety signal for the booker too. An activity partner who has met three GoWith bookings in a row at the same cafe has done more due diligence on the room than you can do in a week of Googling.
“For an activity partner, a partner venue is a public, staffed, well-lit place that expects a GoWith meet. That is a safety feature wearing a convenience costume.”
What Places doesn't let activity partners do
Activity partners cannot receive money from a venue. Ever. That would be a material connection under ASCI's influencer guidelines and would put the whole programme into an advertising category we're deliberately not in. If a venue pays an activity partner anything for anything, that companion is delisted from the partner surface.
Meet-there vs meet-anywhere
Activity partners can still take bookings that meet somewhere non-partner. Places is an option, not a requirement. But we expect activity partners who care about the safety layer will start requiring their bookers to pick from partner venues — and that's fine. That's the flywheel.