Sarah left a 17 year career to be her own boss. One month in, she’s made £75k worth of bookings
Sarah had been at the same company for 17 years when she finally did the thing she’d been thinking about for over a year. She resigned, trained as a travel consultant in June, and within her first month she had made 8 bookings worth £75k . She still sounds a little surprised by it. That […]
Two years, two award nominations and everything life could throw at her. Meet Anne.
Anne had a heart attack two weeks before her training started. Most people would have postponed. But not Anne; she completed the training and, in her first month as a travel consultant, secured 18 bookings. In her own words, she looked at that number and thought,” where on earth did that come from”? Two years […]
Sarah spent years booking holidays for fun. Now she gets paid for it.
Sarah has been obsessed with booking holidays for as long as she can remember. Not in a casual, flicking-through-a-brochure kind of way. Properly obsessed. Hours spent researching destinations, comparing deals, reading reviews and putting together itineraries that other people would have paid a professional to create. For years that obsession earned her nothing except a […]
A teacher and an electrician, a chance encounter in Kathmandu and a travel business that is already taking off
There is a moment in most people’s lives where a passion they have always had starts to feel like something more than a hobby. Where the thing they do naturally, the thing friends turn to them for, the thing that makes an ordinary evening feel genuinely enjoyable, starts to look suspiciously like a business. For […]
Is 53 too old to start a business? Joanna’s answer three years on speaks for itself.
When Joanna signed up with The Travel Franchise in October 2022, she had a plan. Complete her training in early December, go live before Christmas, and hit the ground running for January Peaks. Then, the day before her launch, she broke her wrist. “My first few bookings were done left-handed, pain relieved, because I needed […]
How Emma turned a crisis in the Maldives into a £20,000 client relationship.
In uncertain times, people don’t stop travelling, but they certainly stop taking chances with how they book. The world feels more complicated than it did a few years ago. Between political conflicts and rising prices people are more cautious about their travel plans. Flights get cancelled. Destinations that seemed straightforward suddenly are not. And when […]
Q&A with Janet: From Redundancy to over £6.5 million in holiday bookings: How Janet built a thriving travel business
At The Travel Franchise, we love sharing the stories of consultants who have built something brilliant in their own way. Janet’s journey is a great example of that. After being made redundant, she decided to take a completely new path, and today she has built a successful travel business shaped by personal service, strong relationships […]
Mum who took out a loan to switch careers from banking becomes £500k ‘Diamond’ travel consultant
Not everyone has savings to invest in a franchise, but some people are so determined to change careers that they take out a loan. Lynette, a mum of two, had never worked in travel, but took a leap of faith and invested in a travel franchise, running it in her spare time alongside a full-time […]
Couple achieve Money-Back Challenge in just 4 months after big private jet booking
We’re the only franchise who will refund your franchise fee if you achieve a set amount of commission in your first year. While many of our new joiners reach that milestone within six months, married couple Lindsey and Karl have just smashed the record hitting it in just four! What’s even more impressive is they’ve […]
From pouring pints behind the bar to building a travel business at 74: Meet Clive
Clive spent most of his working life running a pub and pouring pints. But when lockdown hit, he began to reflect on the next chapter. “After lockdown I thought once the pub tenancy finishes I should look for something else to do because I didn’t want to retire. I enjoy meeting people too much and […]