The Travel Franchise offers aspiring entrepreneurs the opportunity to start a travel agency from home — regardless of prior travel experience. By following its award-winning business model and receiving ongoing support from the head office, you’ll have all the tools you need to become the go-to travel agent for your clients. And the best bit? You’ll be your own boss and get to choose the hours you work. You don’t have to work full time and you run the business alongside another job too.
Whether you're looking to escape the 9-to-5 grind, travel the world while booking holidays, earn extra income or boost your pension; this could be the perfect opportunity for you with packages from just £2,995 + vat.
How does it work?
- Take our “excellent” five-day, small group, online, live, training course
- Start selling trips and holidays earning commission from our ABTA/ATOL bonded travel partners (more than 450 travel suppliers)
- Promote our exclusive deals from 40+ key trade suppliers with a WOW travel app to help you spread the good news
- Get free support and mentoring from a personal Business Development Manager
- Get head office support six days a week and all ticketing done for you
- Earn while you learn more about travel via free webinars
- Attend our free trips abroad to learn how to skyrocket your business
- Train to become an expert in cruise holidays and join our company cruise, a Seminar at Sea, to experience what you can sell
- Use our free social media and marketing tools to promote your business - you’ll have your own website too
- Use our Partner in Travel scheme to find new customers
Voted the World’s Best Lifestyle Franchise
We’ve fine-tuned our proven business model over the last 20 years and now our agents are so successful they are winning industry awards. In 2025, The Travel Franchise was named the Best Lifestyle Franchise in the World and Best European Franchise at the International Franchise Association’s Global Franchise Awards. We have also been recognised as Britain’s Best Home-Based Franchise and our customer-facing brand Not Just Travel won Best Luxury Homeworking Agency of the Year (large) in March 2025.
No wonder famous brand ambassadors such as TV broadcaster Eamonn Holmes OBE and TV presenter Hayley Sparkes (pictured below with our co-founders Paul Harrison and Steve Witt) are backing our company!
And there’s real money to be made…
Our most successful franchisees aren’t rare cases: they’re earning £40k part time and over £100k full time.
Some – five in January 2025 - are even winning their Elite franchise fee back with our unique Money-Back Challenge. Simply earn a set amount of commission in your first year and you’ll get £14,995 returned.
Ready to follow your dream?
Despite the exclusive treatment, our doors are wide open to newcomers: almost none of our members have a background in this business, just a passion for travel and good customer service.
You’ll be in the business of making dreams come true. You’ll take away the stress of booking a holiday, so that your clients can enjoy everything about their trip from the minute they contact you. And you’ll get to choose your own hours and travel the world, too.
Caribbean cruises, ship tours and million-pound mentors – not your typical franchise training
A five-night cruise through the Caribbean. Ship visits in Miami. Direct access to the world’s leading cruise brands.
This is what business development looks like when you invest in a travel business with The Travel Franchise.
The company’s customer-facing brand, Not Just Travel, recently hosted its annual Platinum Conference aboard Norwegian Cruise Line’s Norwegian Getaway, bringing together its highest-performing consultants, head office team and key trade partners (KTPs) for an immersive week focused on strategy, growth and celebration.
Running from 19–24 November, the event blended high-energy conference sessions with destination exploration across the Caribbean, alongside exclusive ship tours of Norwegian Cruise Line, Oceania Cruises and Regent Seven Seas.
But the conference wasn’t just about learning. It was about seeing what’s possible if you follow the proven business model which has helped hundreds of people new to travel build a flexible, profitable company from scratch.
This year’s event included six franchisees who have earned more than £500,000 in commission and three who have surpassed the £1 million mark.
For newer consultants – including those in their first year of business – it offered a rare opportunity to connect, learn and be inspired by people who have already built extraordinary success – even though they had no former travel experience when they joined.
The cruise itinerary itself played a key role. Sailing from Miami, the Norwegian Getaway called at Cozumel and Norwegian Cruise Line’s private island, Great Stirrup Cay, allowing consultants to experience the destinations, the ships and the onboard product exactly as their clients do.
Between ports, the ship came alive with interactive workshops, panel discussions led by top-performing agents, one-to-one mentoring, mindset coaching and informal networking events – all designed to spark ideas, build confidence and strengthen collaboration.
Evenings brought time to relax, celebrate achievements and build relationships with peers and industry leaders in a truly unforgettable setting.
Co-founder Steve Witt said: “Our Platinum Conference is about celebrating success and helping consultants go even further. Hosting it onboard a world-class cruise ship, surrounded by sunshine, peers and industry partners, takes that experience to another level.”
“This is a conference like no other. It shows that success in travel doesn’t just mean income – it opens the door to incredible opportunities.”
Two-time Olympian Daley Thompson partner with The Travel Franchise
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