{"id":19625,"date":"2023-08-29T10:00:38","date_gmt":"2023-08-29T09:00:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.franchiselocal.co.uk\/news\/?p=19625"},"modified":"2023-08-29T09:05:15","modified_gmt":"2023-08-29T08:05:15","slug":"couple-launch-travel-agency-in-2022-and-sell-over-1-million-worth-of-holidays-this-year-despite-travelling-abroad-14-times","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.franchiselocal.co.uk\/news\/couple-launch-travel-agency-in-2022-and-sell-over-1-million-worth-of-holidays-this-year-despite-travelling-abroad-14-times\/","title":{"rendered":"Couple launch travel agency in 2022 and sell over \u00a31 million-worth of holidays this year – despite travelling abroad 14 times"},"content":{"rendered":"Reading Time: <\/span> 2<\/span> minutes<\/span><\/span>

The majority of businesses, on average, take two to three years to become profitable while franchises, however, have a much faster scale-up and success rate.<\/p>\n

One example is married couple Matt and Ash, who invested in The Travel Franchise in 2022 and are on course to earn an impressive six-figure income in their second year – whilst travelling the world at the same time!<\/p>\n

While Matt and Ash have owned successful businesses in the past, neither had ever worked in travel before but they have quickly adapted to selling holidays under the franchise\u2019s consumer-facing brand, Not Just Travel.<\/p>\n

Like 98 per cent of people who join The Travel Franchise, they knew they had many crossover skills and that a \u2018business in a box\u2019 franchise, tailored to those new to travel, would provide less risk and have the potential to grow quickly.<\/p>\n

But even they didn\u2019t realise how fast that growth would be\u2026<\/p>\n

Despite only starting their business after an intensive 5-days training 17 months ago, they have already taken \u00a31 million worth of bookings this year. And they haven\u2019t been tied to their home office\u2026 They’ve travelled abroad over 14 times.<\/p>\n

\u201cOur target was \u00a31.3 million in 2023 but we\u2019ve now raised that to \u00a31.5 million. And by the end of the year we would have travelled abroad around 18 or 19 times! It proves this is a flexible business!\u201d<\/p>\n

They have also proved it\u2019s possible to make record sales even during summer, traditionally a quiet time for travel agents.<\/p>\n

They\u2019ve taken over \u00a3250k-worth of bookings in July and August 2023 despite being abroad for 3-4 weeks – and there\u2019s still a week left of August!<\/p>\n

\u201cAt the beginning of the month we were on a river cruise and we still did \u00a350k of bookings. The joy of this business is that you can do bookings on a laptop wherever you are in the world\u2026 and we do!\u201d says Matt who enjoyed four cruises with Amadeus, Virgin Voyages and RCI in the past eight weeks.<\/p>\n

Matt also made holiday bookings while in Mauritius on NJT’s infamous Elite Experience, a luxury retreat which combines exploration in an exotic destination with business training in a classroom setting. The trip included nights at several upmarket resorts belonging to Beachcomber, one of NJT\u2019s key trade partners.<\/p>\n

\u201cI sold two Beachcomber holidays while I was actually in one of its resorts with Not Just Travel and then another six or seven on my return. We love the product – the results are amazing. In fact, I\u2019m now on the phone to them several times a week and have just booked another \u00a320k wedding at one of their resorts.\u201d<\/p>\n

While Matt and Ash are enjoying an impressive income, there are of course business costs including an initial investment of \u00a314,995 (+vat) for The Travel Franchise\u2019s most popular Elite package.<\/p>\n

However, the company will refund that sum under its Money-Back Challenge if franchisees earn a set amount of commission in their first year. Matt and Ash achieved this figure so they are essentially getting their business for free.<\/p>\n

So if you\u2019re weighing up the pros and cons of starting your own business, you may want to consider a franchise. One that has the ability to grow quickly, while you travel the world like Matt and Ash.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The majority of businesses, on average, take two to three years to become profitable while franchises, however, have a much faster scale-up and success rate. One example is married couple Matt and Ash, who invested in The Travel Franchise in 2022 and are on course to earn an impressive six-figure income in their second year […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":19626,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1490,223],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-19625","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\/august-2023-.jpeg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.franchiselocal.co.uk\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19625","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=19625"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.franchiselocal.co.uk\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19625\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.franchiselocal.co.uk\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/19626"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.franchiselocal.co.uk\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19625"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.franchiselocal.co.uk\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19625"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.franchiselocal.co.uk\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19625"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}