How to open your travel agency in 2017

What does it take to send a person to rest in a place he has been dreaming of visiting for a long time? Business relations with trusted tour operators, a well-established communication system with the outside world, and finally, that this person himself will learn about your desire to make his dream come true. Collect all these components in one bottle - and get a successful travel agency.

You will need

• 1. Travel agency business plan

• 2. Experience in the tourism business or hired top manager

• 3. One or two selling managers

• 4. Media

• 5. Office space

• 6. PBX and a dedicated Internet line

• 7. Contracts with several tour operators

• 8. Certificate of registration of IP or formation of LLC

Instruction manual

1

Make a business plan for your future "tourism" company, calculate all the one-time and fixed costs for its organization and maintenance. The tourism services market today is very, very saturated, so placing a big bet on another company working in this area is risky. There is no guarantee that you will succeed, and therefore you should not, for example, buy out an office space, it is better to conclude a short-term lease agreement and rent an area suitable for your purposes.

2

Think about how the work will be organized in your travel agency. If before you did not have to work in this business, it is advisable to hire an experienced director for the new travel agency who knows the specifics of this type of activity. He can also be entrusted with the selection of managers selling tours: the success of a travel agency will largely depend on their professional qualities.

3

Develop a promotion strategy for your travel agency. To do without advertising support in the market with so many players will be almost impossible. Your company should be recognized and remembered as a unique service provider, and not as one of hundreds of travel agencies similar to it. It will be good to create your own website, place memorable outdoor advertising and distribute leaflets.

4

Drive into the rented premises and get to work. In the office from the very beginning you need to have multi-channel telephone communication and the ability to connect to a dedicated Internet line. To start work, a travel company will need only a few contracts concluded with tour operators.

Useful advice

Not everything depends on the location of the office of the travel agency, but something depends - if the fame of your company has not yet spread throughout the city, then the more people who come to you just by walking along the street, the better.

Choose tour operators with whom you are going to work, you need, based on your location. Some of them will be convenient for you, others will not.

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