Why Travel
You Can Start Part Time
If you are planning on starting a new business, it is unlikely that your brand new business will start earning a profit right away. In the building phase of your business, you or you and your family will still need to survive so having the flexibility of starting out very part time so you can keep your current income stream is coming in. You can setup your travel business and schedule your hours around your current commitments. Whether it is replying to an email inquiry from a client looking to book a trip, or contacting a vendor for quotes, you can handle those tasks during your lunch break, just before or right after work. Thanks to social media, promoting your business can be done at any time of the day as long as there are people online.
Great Income Potential
Travel is the biggest consumer industry in the world, with over 7.5 trillion dollars in annual revenue. This means unlimited earning potential, and you can make as much as you want. But on a more realistic scale, let’s look at how much you could earn just selling a single 7 night all inclusive vacation package. A trip for 2 people to a resort in the Caribbean will be no less than $2500. As a travel agent, you can earn anywhere from 8% to 15% of a vacation package. This means, from a single sale, your commission would be $250. Selling two such packages for the month would take up very little time and make you an extra $500 per week. Not bad for a part time business with little overhead cost.
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Low Start Up Cost
One of the reasons starting a home based travel business is so attractive, is that the Start-Up cost is very minimal. For under $200 your business could be up and running. You will be provided with all the necessary training and resources you need to get your business going. All you would need to do complete a mandatory training course, and then pay a monthly fee of $60.00 a month to cover insurance, training, licenses and your ITA.
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Everyone Likes To Travel
When you have completed the setup and you are ready to promote your travel business; you do not need to wonder if anyone will be interested. Travel is a universal language, and everyone loves to speak it. All you need to do is figure out what small niche within this giant industry you want to focus on and find the people that are interested in that niche. Once you can do that, you should not have a hard time finding clients looking to travel and willing to have you assist them with making their travel plans.
You Do Not Need An Office
Probably the single most important fact when you are looking to start a home-based business is that that business should not require it’s own office space. This means, you do not need space to store large equipment, you do not need customers to walk-in, and you do not need to house a lot of staff. Running a travel business from home have none of these requirements as all that is required is for you to have a working computer, the internet, a cell phone and an email address. Once you have those things, a quiet corner in your house will do.
