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Becoming A Home-Based Travel Agent

Working as a travel agent might seem a little outdated in today’s world but in reality, many people still prefer to work with travel agents. The reason is simple. Experienced travel coordinators help travelers save money, time, and all the headaches of organizing the travel.

Today’s travel agent has multiple options: part-time or full-time; employee, independent contractor or self-employed; aligned with a host agency, owner of a franchise or independent; new to the industry, experienced travel agent or phasing into retirement… form all the options, the many appeals of working from a home-based office and ongoing cultural changes continue to lead to increases in agents who are choosing to work from home. In fact, more than half (55 percent) of the travel agent respondents are home-based, with 18 percent defining themselves as home-based employees and another 37 percent identifying themselves as independent home-based agents.

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Owning a Home based travel agency generally work for a host agency as an independent contractor. You can also work as part of a consortium or a franchise, but as a beginning agent, a host agency offers the oversight, access, and background you’ll need to be successful.

As a home-based travel agent, you'll collect a handsome share or commission on the customers you book, and you'll lucky to get some great deals. You can choose to work in a certain industry or work with specific businesses or a large corporation by becoming a travel distributor, or you might even assist clients looking into a particular type of travel by becoming a master travel distributor.
A plus point of becoming a travel agent working from home is that it’s a relatively easy startup business idea and the costs are very low. The basic setup of internet connection, a phone, computer, printer & Social media account or a website is all that is needed you can get started with a host agency right away.

So if you love to travel or if you just love to help other people fulfill their vacation dreams, you may want to start a home-based travel agent business!Agents who work in specific markets or on specific vacation types (like destination weddings or luxury travel) can become very familiar with their market, and thus, enjoy even greater success. Working in particular markets, like weddings or corporate travel can also make a big difference regarding salary.

Travel agents working from home earn about 70,000 Per Month, however, the earning can alter between 1lakh/year to 10lakh/year. It all depends on your contact list, experience, the number of clients of you retain, hours worked, and commission and support from your host agency.Aside from being a great home-based business opportunity, becoming a home-based travel agent offers some amazing perks.

If you enjoy travel, you might love the chance to take “familiarization trips” to various locales. Cruise lines, hotels and tour guides know that the best way for you to sell their services is to become familiar with them yourself—so they offer all kinds of perks, including complementary and deeply discounted fares, as well as opportunities to use their services and explore all your amazing options.If you choose to take a trip on your own, you can get some great offers and discounts. You’ll be the first to hear about some great deals before anyone else and as a travel agent you’ll have access to even greater discounts because, of course, the more you travel, the more business experience you rack up.
Just like the cherry on the icing that’s not all. You can save big amount on taxes. Deduct those travel expenses on your taxes as part of your business! You can also deduct things like advertising and expenses related to your clients.

MOS World, a Mumbai based franchise business company, provides work from travel agent opportunities to individuals who are eager to start or get into the travel industry. The company provides its agents with a pre-establish network in the travel industry so that agents can get a maximum benefit.
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