Do you like travel? Having created your own travel agency, you can often visit abroad and organize interesting trips on your own. Opening a travel agency is not an easy business, but with the right approach, it is very profitable.
Instructions
Step 1
The travel agency sells ready-made tours, and tour operators develop tours themselves and sell to the same travel agencies and other persons. A successful travel agency can become a tour operator in the future. But first, it is important for any travel agency to find its own tour operators (at least 10) who will supply it with tours. When choosing, take into account their reliability and long-term work in the market. The size of the travel agency commission from the tour operator will initially be minimal, because the travel agency has not yet proven itself. At the first stage of activity, it is important for the agency to demonstrate itself from the good side, because then the reward will be higher.
Step 2
Remember that people often go to more than one specific agency, but go and compare offers from different agencies. Therefore, the premises of your travel agency should be close to competitors. It is desirable that it be in the city center and have a parking lot. For a start-up company, a small room is enough - 20 square meters with a bright sign. In the room, you will need to make cosmetic repairs, decorate it, purchase office equipment.
Step 3
A budding travel agency will need two tour sales managers, but it is important that they have experience in sales. It makes no sense to hire newcomers - their services are very cheap, but they may turn out to be ineffective. An employee's earnings should consist of salary and percentages from sales (50 to 50). You can arrange a part-time accountant - you don't need him every day.
Step 4
In order to know about your travel agency, you need advertising. The best advertising is, of course, word of mouth, but as long as you have few clients, it won't work at full capacity. Therefore, you will need to create and promote a website, advertise in the press.
Step 5
You can register a travel agency both by creating a company (LLC), and as an individual entrepreneur. Registration is carried out at tax offices. In Moscow, legal entities are registered by the Tax Inspectorate No. 46, and individual entrepreneurs can register at their place of residence.
Step 6
After successful work for several years, a travel agency can become a tour operator - start personally developing tours and promoting them. To do this, you need to buy a liability insurance policy and enter the Unified Federal Register of Tour Operators. This is a rather expensive event, and it is better not to rush with it, but in the future it will serve as an impetus for the development of your business.
