Best Home Based Travel Agent Guide
Sep 20, 2005, 8:48 pm
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Best Home Based Travel Agent Guide
hello,
firstly - sorry if this is in the wrong place, please feel free to move it
I was wondering if anyone has seen / heard about / purchased a guide to starting your own travel agent
I was looking at a variety of books but have no clue which one seems the best.
I am condering the following: Home-Based Travel Agent, 4th Edition (Paperback) by Kelly Monaghan
or
How to Start a Home Based Travel Agency (Paperback) by Tom Ogg
or
start Your Own Specialty Travel & Tour Business (Entrepreneur Magazine's Start Up) (Paperback)
All seem to have equally good reviews, but the first one's author seems the most well - known.
Any help on which books have been helpful, would be much appreciated.
Also... does anyone own / have the book called Fly Cheap . It seems interesting, but Im sure its nothing that I couldnt learn from FT
Thanks for your help
Cheers
firstly - sorry if this is in the wrong place, please feel free to move it
I was wondering if anyone has seen / heard about / purchased a guide to starting your own travel agent
I was looking at a variety of books but have no clue which one seems the best.
I am condering the following: Home-Based Travel Agent, 4th Edition (Paperback) by Kelly Monaghan
or
How to Start a Home Based Travel Agency (Paperback) by Tom Ogg
or
start Your Own Specialty Travel & Tour Business (Entrepreneur Magazine's Start Up) (Paperback)
All seem to have equally good reviews, but the first one's author seems the most well - known.
Any help on which books have been helpful, would be much appreciated.
Also... does anyone own / have the book called Fly Cheap . It seems interesting, but Im sure its nothing that I couldnt learn from FT
Thanks for your help
Cheers
Sep 20, 2005, 8:55 pm
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My advise would be not to start a at home travel agency. If this was 10 years ago maybe but now hardly anybody uses them. Older travel agencies are even having a hard time trying to survive.
Sep 20, 2005, 9:09 pm
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Originally Posted by zsmith2
My advise would be not to start a at home travel agency. If this was 10 years ago maybe but now hardly anybody uses them. Older travel agencies are even having a hard time trying to survive.
Sep 21, 2005, 9:26 am
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Originally Posted by sadiqhassan
Its purely for interest's sake. Im not even old enough to start one yet
On the Internet nobody knows you're six (or whatever, I assume it's more than that) years old, either. Your family and friends, the usual market for most home-based TAs, will know but won't care.
And, in the U.S. at least, there's no minimum age for starting a business, There is just a minimum age for being held to contracts you sign. Because of that many companies don't want to deal with under-age business owners, since they can ignore any contract with no risk, but you can get around that with an adult co-signer.
