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.
The Travel Franchise proves there’s big money to be made selling cruise holidays – and they’ll show you how
Two years on since the launch of its Cruise Division, The Travel Franchise and its customer-facing brand Not Just Travel has hailed the pioneering training programme “a resounding success” with consultants booking three times as many cruise holidays.

Having recognised that many of its agents were shying away from what is one of the most lucrative sectors in the entire travel industry, the award-winning company devised the specialist training programme to boost its agents’ knowledge and confidence.
Some 360 franchisees have signed up for its Cruise Mastery Programme since its launch in 2022 and company co-founder Paul Harrison says the results have “surpassed all our expectations”.
“We’ve been absolutely blown away by the increase in our cruise sales over these two years,” said Harrison. “In the past many of our agents would avoid cruise bookings because they thought they were too complicated. We knew there was money to be made that our agents just weren’t grasping and we wanted to address this.
“With our training we’ve demystified and simplified the whole cruise booking and sales process. Now our agents are actually choosing to specialise in the field and purposefully going out there to get the cruise bookings.”

The result is that some franchisees have secured single cruise bookings this year of over £135,000 while for others, such as Tracey Fordham, over 40 per cent of their sales are now cruise with a growing number of river cruise bookings.
Fordham recently secured a £89,000 cruise booking and with 40 cruises under her belt she’s now considered an expert - but like many other consultants, it wasn’t always her forte.
The majority of Not Just Travel consultants had no former experience in travel before joining The Travel Franchise – the number one choice for people new to the industry wanting to pursue their passion for travel and launch their own travel consultancy business.
Vikki Coffey is a perfect example. Not only was she completely new to working in travel, she was also a self-confessed “technophobe” when she joined The Travel Franchise around two and a half years ago. In September 2024 her business really set sail after she booked 1,700 people onto a cruise she tailormade – making more than £1 million in cruise sales.
With 56 new cruise ships on the order books between now and 2028, agents like Coffey who embrace cruising have a bright future.
According to the latest trend report from Cruise Lines International Association (CLIA), more than 40 million passengers will cruise by 2027 and, with a dizzying array of cruise ships to choose from, many of these will look to agents for advice.
Many consumers find booking a cruise overwhelming. Even if they choose a particular itinerary and ship, there’s the vital detail of securing the right cabin, month of travel and flights that work seamlessly with the ship’s departure.
It’s no surprise therefore that CLIA reports that over 73% of cruise travellers say that travel advisors have a meaningful influence on their decision to cruise.
And the good news for agents is that if a consumer takes just one cruise, they are likely to take another. In fact, it’s the sector that attracts among the highest repeat booking rate standing at an incredible 82%.
Some 12% of cruise travellers set sail twice a year and 10% take three to five cruises a year (which means that if a travel consultant gets it right, their customer will be straight back to do it all again).
In addition to the high repeat booking rate, commissions are among the highest in the industry with rates up to 20% not uncommon.
“On the back of our training we’ve seen agent sales’ and earnings skyrocket,” said Harrison. “It’s a clear demonstration that our training is highly effective and our agents are reaping the rewards.”
The Travel Franchise’s Cruise Mastery Programme incorporates a mix of online and face-to-face specialist training from cruise experts and cruise operators; exclusive ships tours; access to TTF’s unique, custom-built cruise website, plus its “resoundingly successful” Seminar at Sea when agents attend a series of training seminars whilst onboard a real cruise.
“Our Cruise Division and Cruise Mastery Programme has been a game changer for hundreds of our agents. Moving forward we intend to build on this phenomenal foundation and take it to the next level. Wherever we see there’s even the slightest gap in the market, we will fill it – that’s just what we do,” said Harrison.


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