Working From Home as an Online Travel Agent
If you take a look around when you’re walking downtown, you won’t find that many brick and mortar travel agencies anymore.

The reason is that most travel agents are working online from home – and so can you!

You may think that there is a lot of work to get started working online as a travel agent and get your business off the ground, but it’s actually not that hard at all.

Here you will get some guidelines that will get you started working online from home as a travel agent. There are basically two ways you can operate as a travel agent working online from home:

Booking and selling agents needs an ARC/IATA card which is an industry certification that allows you to book any kind of travel product. This certification is very expensive and you need to meet certain minimum standards in order to be qualified for it. The best way to go if you’re inexperienced in the travel business is as a referral travel agent.

As a referral agent you do not need ARC/IATA identification, because you’re basically working under an accredited hosting agency. You promote the travels, the hosting agency books the tickets and you will get a commission.

When working as a referral agent you normally do not need any kind of travel agent license or certification, but it's recommended to check with the local authorities before you start your business.

One of the most important decisions you will have to make when you start as a referral travel agent is which hosting agency you want to work with. Make sure you put in the time and effort to research for a good company.

There are hosting agencies that you can join for free, but some of them will charge you a monthly fee. In return, you will get a lot of great marketing tools that you can use to promote your business. A good company will also give you training to make you a better agent working online from home.

A good place to start researching hosting agencies is at Professional Association of Travel Hosts (PATH) and National Association of Career Travel Agents (NACTA). They are both reliable sources for serious hosting agencies.

If you want to learn more about how you can get started as an online travel agent, take a look at the eBook How to Make Money in the Billion Dollar Travel Industry.

This is an eBook written by Chris W. Sutton, a travel agent with more than 8 years of experience running an online travel agent business.

In How to Make Money in the Billion Dollar Travel Industry he will show you exatly what he did when he first started and the steps he took to make a living online as a travel agent.

Working online as a travel agent gives you a lot of freedom, you will be your own boss and you get to travel a lot relatively cheap. It is totally possible to make a full time income as a travel agent working online from home.

How much you will make is, as with any business, dependent of how much time and effort you are able to put into it.

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