Travel advisor blog
Practical guides on starting, pricing, marketing, running, and growing a travel business.
What It Costs to Become a Travel Agent
A worked first-year budget showing how much it costs to become a travel agent, from a lean home-based start to a fuller one.
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How Travel Agents Get Paid, From Commissions to Service Fees
How does a travel agent get paid? Supplier commission, client fees, incentives and salary, who pays each one, and when the money arrives.
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How to Become a Travel Advisor
How to become a travel advisor, step by step, why the job changed its name from travel agent, and the training most advisors take.
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How to Become a Home-Based Travel Agent
How to become a travel agent from home, step by step, with the setup a home business needs and the three ways to work from home.
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How to Become a Cruise Travel Agent
How to become a cruise travel agent, from joining a host agency and free cruise line training to CLIA certification and a niche.
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How Much Does a Travel Agent Cost? What Clients Actually Pay
Often nothing extra on cruises and packages. Here is how much a travel agent costs on flights and complex trips, and what to ask first.
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Do Travel Agents Need a License?
How to get a travel agent license in the US, which four states require registration instead, and what a host agency can cover for you.
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Can You Become a Travel Agent for Free?
How to become a travel agent for free, what genuinely costs nothing, what still costs money, and the pay-to-join schemes worth avoiding.
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Travel Advisor Commission Rates by Supplier and How to Raise Them
What cruise lines, tour operators, hotels and insurers pay a new travel advisor, when the money arrives, and the supplier work that raises the rate.
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How to Become a Travel Agent Without Experience, Step by Step
No industry background is the normal starting point. The order to set things up in, the state rules to check, and what the first months look like.
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Host Agency or Independent, Which Is Right for a New Advisor?
What a host agency provides, what it costs in commission split and fees, the questions to ask before signing, and when independence pays.
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What Travel Advisors Do That Booking Sites Cannot
Booking sites sell inventory, advisors sell judgment and access. What clients pay an advisor, and how a new advisor explains the value.
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Finding Your First Ten Travel Clients and Keeping Them
Where a new travel advisor's first bookings come from, how to tell your network, and the follow-up and referral habits that bring clients back.
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Travel Agent Niches and How to Choose One You Can Own
How to pick a travel specialism you can credibly serve, test whether it can carry a business, and become the advisor people in it ask for.
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Travel Agent Service Fees and How to Set Your Own
What a planning fee pays for, how to work one out from your own hours, and the wording that stops it from turning into an argument.
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Itinerary Pacing Mistakes That Cost Advisors Repeat Clients
Why pacing is a professional skill for travel advisors, the mistakes that send clients home tired, and how to plan trips people book again.
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Travel Advisor Tools and Systems for Your First Year
The four systems a new travel advisor needs in year one, from client records to payments and tax records, and what can safely wait.
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Group Travel Basics for Advisors Booking Their First Group
How group bookings pay, what a tour conductor credit is, and how to run names, deposits and deadlines so a first group goes smoothly.
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