Free travel business tools and guides
Everything you need to plan, price, and launch your travel business, free. Use the calculators, take the checklist, and read the template guides.
- Four calculators for pricing, startup costs, and earnings
- Two step-by-step guides to starting and growing
- Ten template guides covering the paperwork
Free tools and guides
No sign-up needed. Use them as often as you like.
Travel Commission Calculator
Work out what a booking is actually worth to you. Put in the trip value, the supplier's commission rate and your host agency split, and see what lands in your account rather than what the brochure implies. Run it across a few trip types and the pattern of which bookings are worth chasing becomes obvious quickly.
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Startup Cost Calculator
What it costs to open, in one place. Host agency fees, errors and omissions cover, a CRM, the booking tools, and the marketing you need before anyone has heard of you. The line most people miss is the months of runway before commission actually pays out, which lags the booking by a long way.
Open it nowEarnings Calculator
Model a year of bookings. Put in how many trips you can realistically plan, the average value, and your commission split, and see what is left after the host agency takes its share. Change one number at a time to find which one matters, which is usually average trip value rather than volume.
Open it nowBusiness Name Generator
Names that sound like an advisor rather than a booking site. It builds from the words travelers actually search, avoids the destination-plus-Travel constructions already taken a thousand times over, and leaves room for you to sell more than one kind of trip later.
Open it nowHow to Become a Travel Advisor
The full path, in order. Choosing a host agency or going independent, the registrations that apply where you live, building supplier relationships, and getting the first client who is not a relative. It is the long read here and the place to start if you have not decided anything yet.
Open it nowHow Much Can You Make?
What the work actually pays, with the arithmetic shown. Commission on leisure trips, planning fees, and corporate accounts broken out separately, because they behave differently, and an honest account of how long the first year usually takes to pay.
Open it nowTemplate library
What each document a travel business runs on needs to contain.
Travel Business Plan Template
A clear business plan turns "I want to become a travel advisor" into something you can act on. This structure walks you through every section a host agency, a lender, or a future you needs to see, without the jargon.
Read the guideTravel Advisor Startup Checklist
Setting up as a travel advisor has a lot of moving parts, and they have to happen in a particular order. This checklist puts every launch task in sequence so you can go from idea to first booked client without discovering a missing step halfway through.
Read the guideClient Travel Questionnaire Template
Almost every itinerary that has to be rebuilt from scratch was quoted before somebody asked the right question. A good intake form gets the constraints out in the open first, so the plan you present is the one they can actually say yes to.
Read the guideTravel Advisor Business Card Template
Travel is a referral business, and a card is what a happy client hands to the friend who asks who planned it. This covers what belongs on it, which matters far more than the design.
Read the guideTravel Services Agreement Template
A travel advisor sits between a client and a dozen suppliers whose terms you do not control. The agreement is where you make that boundary explicit, in writing, before anybody pays a deposit.
Read the guideTravel Proposal Template
The proposal is the product. It is the only part of your work most clients ever see before deciding, and the difference between one that converts and one that does not is usually structure rather than the trip itself.
Read the guideTravel Advisor Invoice Template
A travel invoice has a complication most do not: some of the money is yours and some is passing through to a supplier. Separating the two on the document is what keeps your books straight and stops a client thinking they paid you for the whole trip.
Read the guideTravel Advisor Fee Schedule Template
Commission alone does not pay for the work a good itinerary takes, and the trips that pay least in commission are often the ones that take most planning. A published fee schedule is how advisors stop absorbing that gap.
Read the guideTravel Advisor Flyer Template
A flyer works for a travel advisor when it is narrow. A general "book your holiday with me" competes with every booking site there is, where "school holiday trips to Japan, planned for you" competes with almost nobody.
Read the guideSupplier Introduction Letter Template
Supplier relationships are what turn a booking into an upgrade, a note on the file, or a resolved problem at midnight. They start with an introduction that gives a business development manager a reason to remember you.
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