Opportunities by The Travel Franchise

Opportunities by The Travel Franchise The Travel Franchise is the most exciting travel agency franchise or travel business opportunity in the UK today.

Find out more about how you could help clients book their dream holidays.

15/09/2026

Imagine boarding a plane to Mauritius for a week of five-star resorts, world-class training and once-in-a-lifetime experiences, and calling it work.

That is exactly what our latest Elite franchisees are doing right now. They have arrived in Mauritius for a week-long Elite Experience in partnership with Beachcomber, led by our head of sales and training Dave Pope. In this video, Dave sets the scene for the week ahead, and it is a packed one. A few days of proper business training in the classroom, balanced with time out exploring Mauritius and getting to know the Beachcomber resorts first-hand.

This is what training looks like with us, and it is a world away from the business training most people know. There is no windowless meeting room, no death by slideshow, no going back to the same desk afterwards. Instead our consultants learn from the best, experience world-class resorts for themselves, and get to know the destinations and products so well they can recommend them to clients with total confidence. Just as importantly, this is where genuine relationships are built with the suppliers our consultants work with every day, the kind that only happen face to face.

We are bringing you along all week.

Stay tuned, because you are about to see exactly why our consultants call this the experience that changes everything

14/09/2026

You need to quit your job...
That's what everyone tells you when you say you want your own business. But what if you could start building your own travel business without sacrificing your current income? With the Lite package, you can do just that.

We sat down with Ben, who leads our Lite programme, to explain how people are building travel businesses around busy jobs, young families and full lives, without giving up the income they already have. He should know. He joined Not Just Travel with no travel experience himself, built a successful business, and now coaches our new Lite consultant.

Ben explains how the Lite package lets you earn while you learn, why it suits people who are short on time or a little cautious about risk, and how having an experienced travel consultant handle the bookings while you focus on finding customers takes the pressure off completely. He also shares what the support looks like from day one, and the results some Lite consultants are already seeing, including a single booking worth £53,000.

If a lack of time or experience has been the thing holding you back, this is the read that changes your mind.

Read the full blog at the link in the comments.

Choosing who to build your business with is one of the biggest decisions you will make. So how do you know you have pick...
13/09/2026

Choosing who to build your business with is one of the biggest decisions you will make. So how do you know you have picked the right partner?

For one couple who recently joined us, the answer was clear long before they signed anything. They came to The Travel Franchise looking for something they could build together, something rewarding that would fit the lifestyle they want in the years ahead. What convinced them was not a hard sell. It was the opposite.

They describe a recruitment process that was clear, supportive and genuinely informative, from our Discovery Tour that helped them understand the business to the one-to-one conversations where their questions were actually answered. There was never any pressure or pushiness, just honesty and encouragement that helped them make the decision with real confidence.

That is not an accident. It is exactly how we want every person exploring this opportunity to feel, because a decision this big should never be rushed or forced. We would rather you join because you are certain it is right for you, not because someone talked you into it.

Now they are looking ahead to building a business together, creating memories for their future customers and doing something that brings a bit of joy and adventure to people's lives.

If that is the kind of business, and the kind of partner, you have been looking for, find out more👉https://eu1.hubs.ly/H0yh0s20

Twenty years ago today, two men with no travel experience signed the paperwork for a travel company. The very next morni...
11/09/2026

Twenty years ago today, two men with no travel experience signed the paperwork for a travel company. The very next morning, every plane in the world was grounded.

That was the day before 9/11, and it is where the story of The Travel Franchise begins. Paul Harrison and Steve Witt had just lost most of their money, and they had chosen to start a travel business at the single worst moment imaginable. The company that sold them the franchise even rang to offer their money back. They said no.

They were not travel experts. They were two people who wanted out of working for someone else, who wanted to build something of their own, and who believed other people wanted exactly the same thing. So while the rest of the industry pulled back, they kept going. They got through 9/11. They got through a recession. They got through a pandemic that shut down global travel overnight. And every single time, they came back stronger.

Twenty years on, that little company started on the worst possible day has been named the best lifestyle franchise in the world, two years running. But the part Paul and Steve are proudest of has never been the awards. It is the hundreds of people from all walks of life who have taken their love of travel and turned it into a business of their own. People who no longer answer to a nine to five. People who choose their own hours, who are there for the school run, who work around what actually matters to them, and who do it all in an industry built on the happiest thing there is. Holidays.

That was the whole point from the very beginning. Two people who wanted a better way to live and work, helping others find the same thing.

Twenty years in, we are only just getting started.

10/09/2026

✈️ Imagine being flown to a five-star resort in Mauritius and taught how to build a travel business by people from the best lifestyle franchise in the world. For our consultants, that is not a daydream, just part of the training they get.

Included in the Elite package as standard are two fully funded luxury retreats abroad, and they are unlike any training you have had before. You spend the week learning in person from our co-founders Paul Harrison and Steve Witt and experts like head of sales and training Dave Pope, building relationships directly with major suppliers, and getting to know destinations and products first-hand so you can sell them with real confidence.

🌴You experience world-class travel for yourself, and you come home a completely different kind of consultant. Franchisees regularly tell us the retreats are worth more than the franchise fee on their own.

Most franchises hand you a manual and wish you luck. We fly you around the world and train you properly.

✨And here is the exciting part.

Our next Elite Experience, in partnership with Beachcomber, is just around the corner. Our latest group of Elite franchisees fly out to Mauritius this weekend, and we are bringing you along next week.

📆Stay tuned for some seriously FOMO-inducing posts.

How do you get the biggest names in travel to work with you? On your own, it takes years of proving yourself. With us, y...
10/09/2026

How do you get the biggest names in travel to work with you? On your own, it takes years of proving yourself. With us, you have it from day one.
And we have the awards to prove it

🏆Last night at the Jet2 Non-Retail Summit, our customer-facing brand Not Just Travel was named Top Extra Large Homeworking Agency and Top Non-Retail Agency for Jet2Villas. Two awards, from one of the biggest and most trusted names in UK travel.

These are not just trophies for the shelf.
✅They are proof of the relationships we have built with major suppliers over more than 20 years, and those relationships pass straight to you the moment you join. When you recommend Jet2 to a customer, you do it as part of an agency Jet2 themselves rate at the very top. Better access, stronger deals, instant credibility.

✈️Start a travel business alone, or with a lesser-known name, and you begin from zero with every supplier. Partner with us and you inherit two decades of trust that would take years to build on your own.

That is the difference the right partner makes. Find out more at the link in the comments.

When you are about to trust a company with your future, you want to make sure the people running it actually know what t...
08/09/2026

When you are about to trust a company with your future, you want to make sure the people running it actually know what they are doing.

Well, our co-founders certainly do.
📣Steve Witt is set to speak at one of the biggest entrepreneurial events in the country. Steve is on the Xero stage at Ideas Fest this year, in front of more than 6,000 founders and business leaders, sharing the financial lessons he has learned building companies from scratch. The invitation came from the same people behind the Great British Entrepreneur Awards, where Steve and Paul were named South West Scale Up Entrepreneur of the Year in 2023.

✅When you join The Travel Franchise, that is who is behind you. Not a faceless company, but founders the business world rates among the best, who still turn up to the conferences, the training and the retreats as you build your own business.

Starting something new always takes a leap of faith. It helps when the people catching you have done it, and won awards for it, themselves.

Find out more at the link in the comments.

Say hello to our newest group of Lite consultants, who finished their training over the weekend and are now ready to sta...
07/09/2026

Say hello to our newest group of Lite consultants, who finished their training over the weekend and are now ready to start booking holidays.

Every one of them has done something a lot of people talk about but never quite get round to. They've started their own travel business without giving up the stability of their existing income.
That's the whole idea behind the Lite package. You don't hand in your notice and hope for the best. You keep your job, your salary and your security, and you build your travel business around them, at whatever pace suits your life. Some weeks you'll do more, some weeks less, and that's completely fine, because you're the one in control.

You're never doing it alone either. From day one you're paired with an experienced mentor who has already built a successful travel business, there to guide you, answer your questions and help you turn your first conversations into real bookings.

And the bit that still surprises people. You can start for a deposit of just £995. For the chance to build something that's genuinely yours, with a mentor beside you and no need to risk your income to do it, that's remarkable value.

Huge congratulations to our newest consultants. Your journey starts now.

If you've been waiting for a sign to start yours, find out more at the link in the comments.

🛳️When was the last time your job took you on board a brand new luxury cruise ship for the day, just so you could see it...
06/09/2026

🛳️When was the last time your job took you on board a brand new luxury cruise ship for the day, just so you could see it for yourself?

That is exactly what an exclusive group of our Travel Consultants did over the weekend, given a behind-the-scenes tour of Celebrity Xcel, the newest ship in the Celebrity Cruises fleet, in Barcelona, alongside our co-founder Steve Witt and Duncan, our Head of Cruise Sales.

⭐This is the sort of thing that makes the travel industry unlike almost any other. We believe the best way to learn about the travel industry is to experience it, so we get our consultants on board to walk the ship, taste the food and feel the atmosphere for themselves. When they then recommend Celebrity to a customer, they are not guessing.

It only happens because of the relationships we have built with the biggest names in travel over more than 20 years. Those doors don't open for just anyone. But they are wide open for our consultants as a standard part of building a business with us.

✈️And this is just one trip. Over 400 of our Travel Consultants will take part in experiences like this around the world this year.

Curious what building a travel business could actually look like? Find out more 👉https://eu1.hubs.ly/H0y5JNY0

05/09/2026

If you have ever thought you would love to run a travel business but you are not qualified enough to pull it off, you are far from alone.

98% of our consultants had never worked in travel before they joined us.

They were teachers, nurses, corporate workers and parents heading back to work, and today they are running successful travel businesses of their own. Not because they had the perfect background, but because they were willing to learn and they loved travel.

And the best part is that you're never left to figure it out on your own. You get ongoing training and support, a dedicated Business Consultant in your corner from day one, and two fully funded luxury mentorship retreats included in the Elite package, where the whole thing really starts to click.

So here is the big question... Are willing to start?

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