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Save 60% With Your
Home Based Travel Business
T ravel is a multi-billion dollar industry! Retiring
Baby Boomers are expected to fuel a continuing surge in
vacation spending over the next 25 years. You’ll be happy to
learn it’s relatively simple and inexpensive to start your home
based travel agency.
Unlike
other businesses requiring thousands of dollars in start-up
 capital, you can start a home based travel
agency business, for only a few
hundred dollars.
There are also great
tax advantages. For example, you can deduct such items as
your computer, the space in you home, your telephone,
computer, and more; just because your doing
business out of your home.
In
addition to potential tax breaks, A home based travel
agency owner has a few perks not available to the
public
Here's why.
Say for
example, you're the owner of a four star hotel in Boca
Raton Florida. You want to keep the hotel full. So it's simply
good business to give a discount, or a free room to travel
agents who will send paying customers to your hotel for years
to come.
You see,
the travel vendors - airlines, hotels, tour operators, car
rental agencies, cruise lines, etc. recognize the benefits of
having travel agents who are familiar
with the products they're selling.
This is why
in addition to favorable rates and discounts, these same
vendors sometimes offer free (fams) familiarization trips
to resort destinations, or free dinners, shows, and cocktail
hours.
To be
sure, these are
working trips! They're not vacations!
Travel vendors expect you to become familiar with their resort.
That's the whole point.
Start a Home Based
Travel Agency:
Now's a
great time to get involved with
travel. Traditional Travel
Agents used to earn their fees with expert
knowledge of travel and service to their clients. But the
internet is changing the way travel agencies
do business.
Expedia,
Travelocity, and Priceline have shown
that customers are willing to research and make their own
travel arrangements, online! As a result the travel agency
business increasingly relies on the internet for
business.
Today,
all you need to become a travel agent is a computer, access to
the internet, and a relationship with a Host Agency.
A "host agency" is a bonded, accredited
ARC/IATAN agency through which the home based agent makes
bookings.
A home based travel agent must
work with a host agency like
YTB
Travel to collect commissions.
A prime reason, is airline tickets. Airlines
generally will not ticket for the
independent agent. Only an ARC/IATAN agency can print airline
tickets, and collect commissions paid on those tickets.
As a result, home based travel agents need a
host agency in order to offer travel reservations for
airline tickets.
Referring Travel Agent
As a
referral Travel Agent you can
earn up to 60% commission on
all business, including airfare, placed through your
website.
Referring travel agents don't book or sell travel products.
They steer clients to their Host
Agency website.
In exchange for getting the customer to the website,
the referring travel agent receives 60% of the commission
that YTB Travel gets from the travel vendor.
Also, the referring
travel agent usually books his/her personal travel through
the Host agency and receives a commission on that as
well. In effect, its a kind of rebate.
Referring Travel Agents don't need to know all
the details of the travel industry. They don't have
to know all the airline codes, or what's the best hotel in
Hawaii, or the difference between Category C and Category D on
a cruise ship. But, it sure wouldn't hurt to know!
Finally, some Host Travel Agencies, issue their referring
travel agents their own company photo ID; that the travel agent
can use to receive travel industry discounts and courtesies
from some suppliers (fam trips).
However, the IATAN travel agent photo ID card is the
accepted (gold standard) card by travel vendors worldwide.
Become A Travel Industry
Insider.
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