The Travel Franchise

Join the world’s best lifestyle franchise, two years running and Britain’s best home-based franchise

For over twenty years, The Travel Franchise has been developing, testing and refining an award-winning business model that enables people from all walks of life to build extraordinary travel businesses from home. No prior travel experience is required. No sales background is needed. No office is necessary. Just a genuine love of travel, a willingness to follow a proven system and the ambition to build something genuinely your own.

The company has been voted the Best Lifestyle Franchise in the World for two consecutive years, 2025 and 2026, at the International Franchise Association’s Global Franchise Awards. It has also won Best European Franchise and Britain’s Best Home-Based Franchise. In 2023 it was ranked number ten in the UK’s Top 100 Franchise leaderboard, making it the only travel franchise in the top 100 and placing it ahead of major household brands like Vodafone.

The reason for these accolades is not the marketing. It is the results. 98 per cent of franchisees had no travel background before joining. Many earn £40,000 part-time and over £100,000 full-time. Some have built multi-million-pound businesses. All of them started from scratch, followed the same proven model and had the same dedicated support behind them at every stage of their journey.

“I have been with The Travel Franchise for just over ten years, and it’s been an incredible journey. We love that we’ve escaped the 9-5 and can travel the world whenever we want.” – Susan and Ian, Travel Consultants since 2013

Two routes into the business, one proven destination

The Travel Franchise offers two packages designed to suit different starting points, budgets and levels of commitment. Both deliver the same core business infrastructure. Both give franchisees access to the same supplier network, the same training ecosystem and the same dedicated Business Consultant support. The difference is in how the franchisee engages with the booking process and what level of investment they make upfront.

Starting from £995, the Lite Package is one of the most accessible ways to start in the UK travel industry today.. It is designed for people who want to build a travel business gradually and part-time without giving up their current income. From day one, every Lite consultant is personally paired with one of twenty hand-picked experienced travel professionals who act as both mentor and booking partner. Both earn commission on every booking. When the time is right, upgrading to Elite is a natural, well-supported transition.

“I can highly recommend the Lite package. Working with an experienced consultant from day one is great. A really great way to start a travel business.” – Jo, Lite Consultant

The Elite package at £14,995 plus VAT is the flagship, the most popular and the most complete version of the business. Five days of intensive live online training, a dedicated Business Consultant from day one, two fully funded overseas mentorship retreats in luxury destinations included as standard, the full technology suite and the Money-Back Challenge, which gives you the chance to get your initial franchise investment refunded if you hit a set level of commission in your first year. It is the most complete travel business opportunity available in the UK and the one that gives franchisees the strongest possible foundation for serious long-term growth.

What you get as a Travel Franchise franchisee

The Travel Franchise is often described by its franchisees as a complete business in a box. Every element needed to operate a professional travel agency is provided from the moment you join. The following gives an accurate picture of what that means in practice.

• Access to over 450 travel suppliers and 45 key trade partners with exclusive deals unavailable to the public, across millions of ABTA and ATOL-protected holidays
• Over £1 billion in annual buying power through the Hays Travel Independence Group, giving competitive pricing and strong commercial terms
• Your own personal marketing website, landing pages, social media presence and a full library of ready-made marketing content
• TProfile, the company’s award-winning quotation tool that creates visually stunning interactive client proposals, significantly increasing booking conversion rates
• NJT Smart AI, a platform built specifically for travel consultants combining the premium features of ChatGPT, Claude and Gemini, is provided completely free to all franchisees and is worth up to £300 a month
• Vision CRM system acting as a personal assistant, managing client details, tracking commission, setting reminders and supporting repeat booking growth
• A dedicated Business Consultant providing one-to-one support, goal setting, coaching and practical advice at every stage
• Head office operations team with over 1,000 years of combined industry experience handling all ticketing, schedule changes and travel admin
• Two fully funded overseas mentorship retreats included in the Elite package to destinations like Mauritius, Jamaica, Japan and the Caribbean
• Weekly webinars, in-person training days, annual conferences and a large community of supportive fellow franchisees
• Partners in Travel programme enabling franchisees to build client bases through schools, charities, golf clubs and local businesses
• Celebrity brand ambassador support from Eamonn Holmes OBE and double Olympic champion Daley Thompson CBE

You can keep your current job while you build. Most franchisees start part-time and grow at their own pace before making the transition to full-time when the business is strong enough to support it. That transition is well supported and well timed. Nobody at The Travel Franchise pushes franchisees to leap before they are ready.

With over twenty years in the market and more than 750 successful travel consultants currently building businesses through the model, The Travel Franchise is the most proven and established travel franchise opportunity in the UK.