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 Financial Data

The following financial information was provided by The Travel Franchise to give you more information about the costs associated with a The Travel Franchise opportunity

The Lite Package

£2,995 + MONTHLY FEES £299

The Elite Package

£14,995 + MONTHLY FEES £99

EWIF Spotlight | Becky Westaway

September 20, 2023

Mum of two, Becky, made her first holiday booking in her first week after training with The Travel Franchise in December 2021.

Within four months she’d taken an £80k holiday booking.

By seven months she’d achieved the Travel Franchise’s unique Money-Back Challenge, meaning she had sold enough holidays that the company refunded her £14,995 franchise fee.

By the end of her first year she sold £1 million-worth of holidays and is travelling the world when she’s not helping the kids with their homework.

All this despite the fact that Becky had never worked in travel before. She was a PR guru who wanted to spend more time with her kids and less time in the office. And as she loved holidays and networking she chose us - the number one travel franchise for people new to travel.

Becky thinks having her own business has changed her own life and she wants others like you to think about following in her footsteps. Why? Because Becky now feels better than ever and she wants others to feel that way too.

“It’s definitely changed my life for the better. Everyone tells me I look great, smile more and I don’t have dark circles under my eyes. I’m happier… If you have the motivation, you love to travel and you love people and networking, it’s a great opportunity.”

The Travel Franchise is supporting the work of industry organisation Encouraging Women Into Franchising (EWIF) by sharing a series of stories from a number of women to show how its possible to build highly successful full- and part-time businesses around other jobs or busy family lives.

EWIF is a not-for-profit organisation run entirely by volunteers, providing advice and guidance to women looking for a route into the franchise industry. Its aim is to encourage women to consider buying a franchise, to encourage businesswomen to franchise their existing operations and to help franchisors attract more women to their networks.

The Travel Franchise Success Stories