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Home-Based Travel Agent: How to Cash In On The Exciting New World Of Travel Marketing

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Yes, it is true that the home-based travel agency is set up differenty than a store front agency. If you expect the two agencies to be the same, then you would be disappointed in this text. However, if your expectations are to get into the industry while working from home, then I think this book is the most valuable investment you can make. I was overwhelmed from my own research and almost gave up until I read this text. This book will offer you concrete facts and resources to use at each step (finding a host agency, selling, booking, promoting travel, and BEST of all, avoiding common beginner mistakes). Why suffer through the mayhem when you can learn from someone else's mistakes and try to avoid them. I highly recommend this author's text on agent opportunities also.

The chapter on using EasySabre to get detailed airline fares and schedules online is out of date. EasySabre is now part of Travelocity (the online travel site) and no longer provides all of the great details mentioned in Kelly's book. This really is too bad, as it takes away one of the best tools there was for an independent agent. But I still recommend this book for anyone considering running a home-based travel agency - it can save a lot of time and effort in trying to find all of the "ins" and "outs" of this business on your own.

This is a very informative, detailed, EASY to read book for anyone wanting to get into this business. I highly recommend anyone wanting to get into this business to read this book. I think she did a great job in writing it. It feels like you are interviewing the author herself and getting the answers to most questions you would have on your mind. The most informative book I have read in a long time!

I have the first edition that Kelly published for readers. I used it all of time...referring to things I had read and used them when asking question with those that I networked with. I have since purchased the newest edition to share with the new IC's that join our agency. We have been operating as a home office agency since 1998. Handling our own accounts and communication with suppliers. It take a little long to get noticed, but worth it in the long run. Good luck to all that read this book!

We were so impressed with this book that we started buying it directly from the publisher by the case for our new travel agents. The book is filled with real world applications for selling travel from someone who has actually done it. A very useful and informative book.

It is not possible to be a home-based travel agent. As explained in the book, the agencies through whom you have to work to make bookings and get your commissions for airlines require that you have an address that is in a commercial building zoned as such. The book gives you an out by suggesting you work for a travel agent or get one to give you a contract to be an extension of that agency. As a result you have to pay them a setup (or franchise fee) and then you have to split your commissions with them. This is not what I call a home-based travel agency business.