In spite of all the global meltdown and other economic slowdowns, people still do travel either for business or for pleasure. Why not make home based travel business a career if you have an interest in traveling and the time and the inclination for such a business.
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In broad terms a home based travel business is engaged in the business of marketing and selling travel related products for the comfort of a home. A travel agent to put it colloquially. This is a very broad categorization.
If you are running a home based travel business, you are in fact an independent contractor and your job involves the finding, vetting and booking of customers on behalf of a host agency.
You do not have any deadlines to meet, no fixed hours of work and how much you earn depends purely on the effort that you put into your job, because you are paid commissions. The more clients you book the more you earn.
As a starter you can have a host agency acting as a go-between between you and the travel supplier (an airline, a hotel or some other travel related product). You, as the home based travel business owner, and the host agency split the commission that the travel supplier pays according to a percentage depending on the amount of work done by each of you.
As your travel home business develops and you get the hang of the tricks of the trade, you can set out on your own and dispense with the services of the host agency.
The best way to develop such a full fledged home based travel business is to concentrate in certain areas of your work. You could specialize in booking only cruises, keeping direct contact with the cruise operator or the boat owner. Yet another area is making hotel bookings.
There is another way that you can run a home based travel business and at the same time satisfy your craving for travel, if you have the craze. You can specialize in marketing educational tours here you can offer attractive pricing and allow you, as the tour organizer to travel free, because of the bulk nature of the booking that facilitates the tour suppliers to offer very good discounts. Such a comprehensive job also brings you a kind of satisfaction of having achieved something worthwhile.
In a home based travel business, of whatever level of sophistication, you can either work full-time or part-time or even whenever you want to. No one is going to tell you how to work, when to work and from where you work. You can earn either a small packet maybe just enough to indulge in some small luxuries, a generous middle-class income or even a six figure income.
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