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

Staggering travel agent sales in August boosts demand for travel franchises and training

August 18, 2023

Not Just Travel reports that holiday bookings in 2023 have exceeded those in 2022 every single month with mid-August figures already up 25 per cent year-on-year.

“This month so far we’ve paid more commission to our travel franchisees than ever before.
Sales are simply staggering,” says co-founder Steve Witt.

“August is traditionally a slow month in terms of holiday bookings but many of our consultants have been busier than ever!”

In the first week of August, NJT husband and wife team Colman and Rachael Coyne sold seven cruises. Also, at the beginning of the month, agent Paula Warden booked six cruises in just one day.

Meanwhile, home based travel agent Lloydie Gardener, a former courier, has already taken over 29 bookings worth £127k in total, many package holidays for 2024.

“I’ve had the best August I’ve ever had and it’s the second best month I’ve had this year and there’s still two weeks left to go. I’ve already beaten my monthly target and as I’ve got so many quotes to catch up with I’ve set myself a new one of £200k.”

Big bookings continue to be commonplace while group bookings appear to be a growing trend.

One of NJT’s longest standing and most successful consultants, David Walker made a single £105k booking to Bermuda this month (August) plus an effortless £60,000 flight-only booking for 40 people over the weekend.

And it’s not just established NJT consultants enjoying strong sales. Many new NJT consultants are making several bookings in their first week after just five days of virtual training.

Booming sales is having a negative affect, however, on those wishing to join The Travel Franchise with a lack of training spaces this autumn.

“Many new franchisees want to train before Peaks, the January to March period when travel agents typically sell four times as many holidays as any other time of the year so we have put on extra training but spots are filling fast,” says co-founder Paul Harrison.

“If our agents sell four times as much holidays as they are this August, Peaks 2024 is going to be phenomenal! Our advice is to register for training as soon as possible.”

The Travel Franchise Success Stories