Home Based Travel Business

Plan incredible holidays at great prices, work from home and earn a great income.

Start your own home based travel business from the equivalent of £28 a week

The Travel Franchise helps anyone start their own home based travel business even with no prior travel experience. With the right training, the right support and a proven model behind you, building a real business that earns real income and fits genuinely around your life is not just possible.

With over twenty years in the market and more than 750 successful travel consultants currently building travel businesses through the model, The Travel Franchise is among the most proven and established travel franchise opportunity in the UK.

What background do you need to become a Travel Consultant? 

Many of the most successful consultants are women who walked away from demanding careers in the city, the NHS, teaching and beyond to achieve a better work-life balance and prove to themselves they could build something significant. They have.

Some now run multi-million pound travel businesses. Others work a few hours a week around their families and earn a meaningful income doing something they genuinely enjoy. The business accommodates both, and everything in between, because it is built around flexibility from the very beginning.

An Award Winning Busines

The Travel Franchise was voted the world’s Best Lifestyle Franchise in both 2025 and 2026 at the International Franchise Association’s Global Franchise Awards in Las Vegas, two consecutive years. It was also voted Britain’s Best Home Based Franchise in 2024. Celebrity brand ambassadors TV broadcaster Eamonn Holmes OBE and double Olympic champion Daley Thompson CBE both back the business.

“It’s definitely changed my life. It’s changed my son’s life. I will never go back to a nine-to-five job ever.”
Lisa, Travel Consultant

Two packages built around your life

• The Lite Mentorship Programme from the equivalent of £28 a week is designed for anyone who wants to start building a travel business gradually, part time, without leaving their existing income behind.
  
  From day one every Lite consultant is personally paired with one of twenty hand-picked experienced travel professionals who acts as both mentor and booking partner. Both earn commission on every booking. It is a genuine partnership from day one with real commercial alignment, designed to set new starters up for long-term success without overwhelming them in the early months.

“I can highly recommend the Lite package. Working with an experienced consultant from day one is great. A really great way to start a travel business.”
Jo, Lite Consultant

• The Elite package at £14,995 plus VAT is the flagship and the most complete version of the business. Intensive five-day live online training, a dedicated Business Consultant from day one, two fully funded overseas mentorship retreats to luxury destinations around the world, the TProfile quotation tool, NJT Smart AI, Vision CRM and the unique Money-Back Challenge, which gives you the chance to get your initial franchise investment refunded if you hit a set level of commission in your first year are all included as standard.
  
  For anyone ready to fully commit to building something serious, the Elite package provides everything needed to do that with confidence.

The opportunity in numbers

The business model is built on commission. Travel suppliers pay a percentage of each booking. The average commission is around ten per cent of the booking value. A £3,500 family holiday generates approximately £350 in commission.

A £10,000 luxury booking generates £1,000.

Franchisees keep up to 75% of what they earn. With just two bookings a week, a franchisee can earn over £35,000 a year. The business compounds over time as clients return year after year and refer their friends. High-ticket niches like cruises, luxury tailor-made itineraries and destination weddings generate some of the highest commissions in the entire retail sector. The largest bookings regularly exceed £100,000.

Why consider The Travel Franchise? 

• 450 plus travel suppliers and ABTA and ATOL protected holidays across millions of options
• Trade-only deals and products the public cannot find online anywhere
• TProfile quotation tool to create beautiful professional interactive client proposals
• NJT Smart AI, a cutting-edge AI tool built specifically for travel consultants, provided completely free and worth up to £300 a month
• Backing from celebrity brand ambassadors Eamonn Holmes OBE and double Olympic champion Daley Thompson CBE
• Complete flexibility: part time, full time or in your spare time, entirely on your own terms
• Money-Back Challenge on the Elite package: hit a set commission target in your first twelve months and The Travel Franchise refunds your entire franchise fee in full
• Two fully funded overseas mentorship retreats in luxury destinations, included in the Elite package
• Partners in Travel programme to build your client base through local partnerships

Celebrity brand ambassadors

When you join The Travel Franchise, you are not just joining a franchise. You are aligning your business with two of the most recognisable and respected names in British public life. TV broadcaster Eamonn Holmes OBE and double Olympic champion Daley Thompson CBE are both official brand ambassadors and both attend company events, retreats and conferences throughout the year. That association gives franchisees a level of credibility and brand recognition from day one that most new business owners spend years trying to build. When a potential client sees that name attached to the business, it builds trust before the conversation has even started. It is a commercial advantage that is unique in the travel franchise sector and one that no competitor can replicate.

The Hays Travel Independence Group partnership

Through its partnership with the Hays Travel Independence Group, The Travel Franchise gives every franchisee access to over £1 billion in annual holiday buying power.

In practical terms that means access to over 450 travel suppliers, thousands of additional operators and a vast range of trade-only products the public simply cannot find on any comparison website. It means genuinely competitive commercial terms that allow franchisees to offer their clients better choice, better protection and pricing that stands up against anything available online. And it means the commercial weight and credibility of one of the largest buying groups in the UK travel industry sitting behind every single booking a franchisee makes. That is the kind of commercial infrastructure that would take an independent travel agent years and millions of pounds to build. The Travel Franchise gives it to every franchisee from day one.

Partners in Travel

One of the most powerful things about The Travel Franchise model is that franchisees do not have to rely solely on friends and family to build their client base. The Partners in Travel programme gives franchisees a proven, structured route to tapping into large existing audiences through partnerships with local businesses, charities, schools, golf clubs and community organisations.

The partner promotes the franchisee to their audience and the franchisee shares a percentage of the commission on any bookings that result. It is entirely performance-based, costs nothing to set up and can connect a franchisee with hundreds or even thousands of potential clients in their local area overnight. Some of the most successful businesses in the franchise have been built almost entirely through this programme, partnering with organisations like hospices, sports clubs and local charities to generate a steady stream of referrals year after year.

The Travel Franchise Packages include everything you need to start and grow your own successful home based travel business.

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