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

The Travel Franchise adds February training date to tackle long waiting list as its travel consultants break January ‘Peaks’ sales records

February 01, 2023

Its travel agents, which sell holidays under the customer facing Not Just Travel brand, experienced a booming January with company figures revealing 2023 sales up 65% year-on-year with profits increasing by over 80%. The figures indicate the company is over-indexing industry competitors by more than double.

In addition, Not Just Travel consultants are booking more customer holidays than ever before – an increase of 50% compared to the previous January.

Paul Harrison, co-founder of Not Just Travel and The Travel Franchise says: “The number of bookings made by each consultant is our best measure of success. The fact that it is higher than ever before proves that they are expert, confident and well-trusted by customers. This is naturally reflected in our sales.”

December was also the company’s best month ever. Consultant Ben Casey was 724% up in December and, in January, he sold £324k-worth of holidays – a 30% increase on the same month in 2022.

“It’s no wonder we have seen increasing demand to join The Travel Franchise,” says Harrison. “As there was a three-month waiting list for training we have added another date – February 27 – which means that those new business owners can still attend our Millionaire mentorship retreat in Cyprus in March and learn how to skyrocket their business.”

Both Ben Casey and Paul Harrison said there was demand for high-ticket luxury or milestone holidays as people continue to invest more in dream trips post-Covid.

Casey says his average booking value for January 2023 is up 57% on January 2022, from £6,252 to £9,818.

Says Harrison: “Pre-pandemic, we used to book £10k+ holidays every few days, now they are as frequent as every other booking. Our increased sales and booking values show that people will sacrifice many other lifestyle items before they reconsider their holidays.”

Travel consultant Lloydie Gardiner, who bought a travel franchise when a road traffic accident forced him to give up his job, sold over £280,000-worth on holidays in January and is currently pricing up a big £200,000k wedding in the Maldives. Last year Lloydie sold over £1.3 million holidays and he expects a growth of at least 15 per cent this year.

The Travel Franchise Success Stories