Travel advisor blog
Practical guides on starting, pricing, marketing, running, and growing a travel business.
Travel Advisor Commission Rates: What Each Supplier Actually Pays
Commission rates by supplier type, what counts as commissionable value, when each one pays out, and the two things that raise your rate. With a worked example on a real family booking.
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How to Become a Travel Advisor With No Experience
No industry background? That is the normal starting point. Here is the order to do things in, what it costs, and how long it takes before the first booking.
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How Much Do Travel Advisors Actually Earn?
Commission rates by supplier type, when each one pays, and the difference between what a booking is worth and what lands in your account this month.
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Host Agency or Independent: How to Actually Decide
What a host agency takes, what it gives you, and the point at which going independent starts to make financial sense.
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What Travel Advisors Do That Booking Sites Cannot
The honest answer to the question every new advisor gets asked, and how to give it without sounding defensive.
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Finding Your First Ten Travel Clients
Where the first bookings really come from when you have no advertising budget and no reviews.
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Choosing a Travel Niche You Can Actually Own
Why generalists compete on price, and how to pick a specialism you can credibly serve.
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Should You Charge a Service Fee? Yes, and Here Is How to Say It
What a planning fee buys, how to set one, and the wording that stops it becoming an argument.
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Building Supplier Relationships That Actually Pay
Who to build relationships with first, and what preferred partner status is really worth.
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The Itinerary Mistakes That Ruin Otherwise Good Trips
Pacing, connection margin and the difference between a schedule that works on paper and one that survives a real travel day.
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The Systems a Travel Advisor Needs in Year One
The short list of things worth setting up early, and the long list that can wait.
Read more →Group Travel: The Bookings That Change Your Income
How group economics work, what a tour conductor credit is, and why one group can be worth a quarter of solo bookings.
Read more →Building Repeat and Referral Business That Compounds
Why the second trip is where the money is, and the small habits that make it happen.
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