{"id":19556,"date":"2023-08-18T15:00:02","date_gmt":"2023-08-18T14:00:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.franchiselocal.co.uk\/news\/?p=19556"},"modified":"2023-08-18T12:52:42","modified_gmt":"2023-08-18T11:52:42","slug":"staggering-travel-agent-sales-in-august-boosts-demand-for-travel-franchises-and-training","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.franchiselocal.co.uk\/news\/staggering-travel-agent-sales-in-august-boosts-demand-for-travel-franchises-and-training\/","title":{"rendered":"Staggering travel agent sales in August boosts demand for travel franchises and training"},"content":{"rendered":"Reading Time: <\/span> 2<\/span> minutes<\/span><\/span>

Franchisees who invested in The Travel Franchise and launched a home-based travel agency under the company\u2019s consumer-facing brand, Not Just Travel, are enjoying a bumper year.<\/p>\n

Not Just Travel reports that holiday bookings in 2023 have exceeded those in 2022 every single month with mid-August figures already up 25 per cent year-on-year.<\/p>\n

\u201cThis month so far we\u2019ve paid more commission to our travel franchisees than ever before.<\/p>\n

Sales are simply staggering,\u201d says co-founder Steve Witt.<\/p>\n

\u201cAugust is traditionally a slow month in terms of holiday bookings but many of our consultants have been busier than ever!\u201d<\/p>\n

In the first week of August, NJT husband and wife team Colman and Rachael Coyne sold seven cruises. Also, at the beginning of the month, agent Paula Warden booked six cruises in just one day.<\/p>\n

Meanwhile, home based travel agent Lloydie Gardener, a former courier, has already taken over 29 bookings worth \u00a3127k in total,<\/strong> many package holidays for 2024.<\/p>\n

\u201cI\u2019ve had the best August I\u2019ve ever had and it\u2019s the second best month I\u2019ve had this year and there\u2019s still two weeks left to go. I\u2019ve already beaten my monthly target and as I\u2019ve got so many quotes to catch up with I\u2019ve set myself a new one of \u00a3200k.\u201d<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

Big bookings continue to be commonplace while group bookings appear to be a growing trend.<\/p>\n

One of NJT\u2019s longest standing and most successful consultants, David Walker made a single \u00a3105k booking to Bermuda this month (August) plus an effortless \u00a360,000 flight-only booking for 40 people over the weekend.<\/p>\n

And it\u2019s not just established NJT consultants enjoying strong sales. Many new NJT consultants are making several bookings in their first week after just five days of virtual training.<\/p>\n

Booming sales is having a negative affect, however, on those wishing to join The Travel Franchise with a lack of training spaces this autumn.<\/p>\n

\u201cMany new franchisees want to train before Peaks, the January to March period when travel agents typically sell four times as many holidays as any other time of the year so we have put on extra training but spots are filling fast,\u201d says co-founder Paul Harrison.<\/p>\n

\u201cIf our agents sell four times as much holidays as they are this August, Peaks 2024 is going to be phenomenal! Our advice is to register for training as soon as possible.\u201d<\/p>\n

Visit The Travel Franchise website<\/strong>\u00a0to watch Discovery videos about the franchise or attend one of its September two-hour Discovery events in Liverpool, Birmingham or London.<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Franchisees who invested in The Travel Franchise and launched a home-based travel agency under the company\u2019s consumer-facing brand, Not Just Travel, are enjoying a bumper year. Not Just Travel reports that holiday bookings in 2023 have exceeded those in 2022 every single month with mid-August figures already up 25 per cent year-on-year. \u201cThis month so […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":19557,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1490,223],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-19556","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-the-travel-franchise","category-leisure-franchises"],"acf":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.franchiselocal.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/08\/Steve-Witt-and-Paul-Harrison-at-conference-edited-mr-1-scaled.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.franchiselocal.co.uk\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19556","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.franchiselocal.co.uk\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.franchiselocal.co.uk\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.franchiselocal.co.uk\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.franchiselocal.co.uk\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=19556"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.franchiselocal.co.uk\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19556\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.franchiselocal.co.uk\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/19557"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.franchiselocal.co.uk\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19556"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.franchiselocal.co.uk\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19556"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.franchiselocal.co.uk\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19556"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}