How to create a travel agency

To create a travel agency you will need a room equipped with all necessary equipment and at least three managers. In addition, well-designed advertising will not interfere with your website on the Internet.

Instruction manual

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There are two players on the travel services market - tour operators and travel agents. The former develop tours, engaged in the formation of prices, and the latter sell finished tours. The first year of work is the most difficult, it is necessary to survive the off-season from October to the end of December and from mid-January to April. In the second year of operation, the customer base will grow and you can already breathe more freely.

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When planning to organize a travel agency, you need to take care of renting a room in the city center with convenient parking and a separate entrance. It would be a mistake to look for an office away from competitors: on the contrary, you need to be closer to them so that the client can be able to compare prices from different companies within the same area. A place free from competitors can only be a sleeping area with a large concentration of potential tourists. A prerequisite is a bright sign above the entrance, able to attract potential customers.

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The interior of the room is also very important - it will depend on whether the client wants to stay here or will go look for something better. In addition to cosmetic repairs, it will be necessary to purchase office equipment and furniture. Experts recommend recruiting a staff of at least 3 people, so you need to take care of three tables and three computers. Telephone lines should be two and one dedicated channel for the Internet.

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In order not to go to the site of each tour operator, it is better to acquire a unified base for searching tours in advance. In addition to the three managers, you will need an accountant and a system administrator, but the latter can work part-time. An important item of expenses is advertising, which includes not only a bright sign, but also the distribution of prospectuses, advertising on the Internet and the like.

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But the most important thing that needs to be done in the first place is to register a legal entity and obtain a certificate of compliance of the services provided with quality standards. A prerequisite for the travel agency is to obtain a hygiene certificate and listen to a lecture on infectious diseases and infections of tropical countries.

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Today, it is becoming increasingly difficult for independent travel agencies in the conditions of fierce competition to survive and provide a full range of services from hotel reservation, transportation and sale of vacation packages. Therefore, network brands with centralized management in one office are becoming increasingly popular. In the West, the tourism business is increasingly moving into the sector of online sales technologies. Those Russian companies that repeat these trends receive up to 50% of their income in this way, so this method of organizing a business should be taken into service by newly created companies.