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The Travel Franchise, Smartbase Target Road Aviation Park West, Christchurch, Dorset (2026)

30/10/2026

Something big happens in travel between January and March, and the people getting ready for it now are the ones who’ll win.

That stretch is called Peaks. It’s the travel industry’s busiest period of the year, when most of the country books its holidays. For anyone running a travel business, it’s the biggest opportunity there is, and it’s almost here.

Demand to join us and train for it has been so high that we’ve added an extra training week just to keep up. And to go with it, we’ve launched our best offer in ten years, so you can get in, get trained, and be ready in time.

We’re not revealing the details here. This one you hear about on a call. What we will say is that in ten years we haven’t put anything like it on the table, and it won’t be here for long. Spaces are limited, and it ends on the 30th of November.

We’re looking for people who are ready to take action, not someday, but now. Book a call, and we’ll tell you everything.

Link in the comments.

29/10/2026

You don’t want to quit your job and lose a stable income. But you love travel, and you’ve been looking for a way to start a business of your own without gambling what you’ve already got.

That’s exactly what our Lite package is for.

It lets you build your own travel business around the job you already have, at a pace that suits you. And you’re never left to figure it out alone. You’re paired with an experienced, successful travel agent as your mentor, someone who’s already built what you’re setting out to build and guides you every step of the way.

So you learn the business from the best, earn as you go, and grow something that’s yours, all without giving up your salary. No travel experience needed, and it starts from £995.

Link to learn more is in the comments

29/10/2026

This is the best offer we’ve put out in ten years, and it won’t be around for long.

Right now, so many people are joining us and training for Peaks that we’ve had to put on an extra training week just to keep up.

So what exactly is Peaks? It’s the travel industry’s busiest stretch of the whole year, roughly January to March, when the country books the bulk of its holidays. For a travel business, it’s the single biggest opportunity on the calendar, which is exactly why everyone wants to be trained and ready before it begins.

That’s where this offer comes in. It’s our strongest in a decade, built to get you in, get you trained, and have you ready to make the most of Peaks. We’re keeping the full details for a proper conversation, so book a call and we’ll walk you through all of it.

Spaces are limited and the offer runs until the end of November. This is our busiest, most exciting time of the year, and we want people beside us who are ready to move.

So if you’ve been sitting on the idea of your own travel business, now is the moment. Book a call today, and we’ll tell you everything.

Drop us a message or check out the link in the comments.

28/10/2026

Twenty cruise bookings in a single day? When you’re part of The Travel Franchise, that’s not a fantasy, it’s what a strong day can look like. One of our consultants just proved it.

And she’s far from alone. We work closely with our cruise trade partners, and that collaboration is really paying off. Our latest campaign was built around P&O cruises, and sales have gone through the roof, with cruise flying right across the board. It’s a big reason we’re now one of the top cruise-selling agencies in the country.

You might assume you’d need years of experience to get near numbers like that, but you wouldn’t. Most of our consultants knew nothing about cruise when they started.

That’s exactly why we invest so heavily in it. You get dedicated cruise training, you’re taken on board real ships to experience it for yourself, and we even run training at sea. We teach you to sell cruise properly, from scratch, whatever your background. A cruise is one of the highest-value things you can sell, so getting it right makes a real difference.

Cruise is only getting bigger, and the best time to learn it is now, before Peaks hits in January. If you’ve ever fancied building a travel business, this is one of the most exciting corners of it to step into.

Come and see how it works. The link is in the comments.

27/10/2026

Every autumn the same thing happens. The clocks go back, the heating goes on, and millions of people across the country start dreaming of somewhere warm. Every one of those holidays gets booked by someone. That someone could be you.

Our co-founder Steve Witt was just asked by the Express to pick his ten best winter sun destinations within six hours of the UK. His list ran from Marrakech and Tenerife to the Red Sea and Senegal. When a national paper wants to know where Britain should escape to this winter, they come to Steve, because he has spent decades in this industry and knows it inside out.

That demand he’s talking about is the whole point. People are always going to want holidays. Rain or shine, good economy or bad, they want a week in the sun, a break with the kids, a trip to look forward to. That demand never really goes away. And more and more people are tired of fighting with booking websites on their own. They want a real person who knows their stuff, who will sort the details and get it right.
That person is a travel agent, and it could be you.

You don’t need any travel experience to start. Most of our 800-plus consultants had none at all when they joined. What they got was the training, the expertise and the backing of a company the national press turns to for advice, and they built real businesses from there.

The demand is already out there. The holidays are already being booked. The only question is whether you’re the one booking them.

If that sparks something, come and find out how it works. Link in the comments

27/10/2026

You’ve thought about starting your own travel business, but you’re waiting for a sign it’ll definitely work out before you commit.
Here is the thing, though...that sign is never coming. Nobody gets a guarantee before they try something. That’s not how any of it works.

Most people won’t make the trade. They won’t risk having a go in case it doesn’t work out, so they stay exactly where they are and call it the safe option. But staying safe has a cost people ignore. It’s years of the same week on repeat, the same commute, the same routine, and the feeling that you were probably meant for a bit more than this.

Nobody can promise you that starting your own travel business will work. But one thing is certain. If you never try, you’ll spend the rest of your life wondering what you could have built, and who you might have become if you’d backed yourself.
That’s the real risk, not failing but wondering.

And the good news is you wouldn’t be doing it blind. Plenty of people from all walks of life have started a travel business with us knowing nothing about travel, and built successful travel businesses with us. After that, you get the training, the support and a mentor who’s done it before, walking it with you.

So stop waiting for certainty that isn’t coming. Give yourself the one thing that is guaranteed, the chance to find out what you’re actually capable of.

If you’ve felt that pull for a while now, come and see how it works.
It might be the decision that changes everything. Link in the comments to learn more.

26/10/2026

The scariest part of starting your own business isn’t the money you put in. It’s the fear that the moment you’ve handed it over, you’ll be left on your own to work the whole thing out.

If that’s what’s holding you back, it’s a fair worry. It’s the question nearly everyone asks before they join. What actually happens after I say yes? Do I get real help, or do I get a login and a good luck?

You can see the answer in what happened in Cyprus earlier this month. A group of our consultants spent a week out there, and not on holiday. They were on one of our fully funded luxury training retreats, learning how to run their business properly while staying somewhere most people only save up to visit.

One of them is Donna. This is what she said while she was out there:
“The training has been excellent, and everybody’s really supportive, it’s not competitive at all. We went w**e tasting up in the hills and had a beautiful meal in Paphos town. I just feel really lucky to be part of this.”

Most companies would take your money and point you at a website. Some are more interested in you signing up the next person than booking a single holiday. That has never been us.

When you join us, you get a business consultant beside you from day one, someone whose actual job is to help you win. You get training that doesn’t stop after the first week, it keeps going as your business grows. And on our Elite package, that training includes retreats like this one, where you learn your trade somewhere beautiful, surrounded by people who want to see you do well.
That’s the difference, and it’s a big one. Nobody here is left to sink.

If you’ve been sitting on the idea of a travel business, worried you’d be on your own, come and see how we actually do it. It might be a lot more than you expected 👉https://eu1.hubs.ly/H0zpMbd0

26/10/2026

You get one life, and right now you’re handing most of it over, five days a week, to build someone else’s dream.

Add that up over a lifetime. That’s forty-odd years of your best mornings, your best energy and your best ideas, all spent making someone else’s business bigger. And at the end of it, if you’re lucky, you get a bit of time back when you’re too worn out to do much with it.

You don’t have to take that deal. People are walking away from it every single week and building something of their own instead, a travel business they run on their own terms, from wherever they want, doing work they actually look forward to.

Tomorrow night at 7pm, our co-founder Paul Harrison is going online for one hour to show you how it’s done.

An hour of your time against the chance to change your life.
Save your spot before tomorrow night.
Link in the comments.

26/10/2026

No matter how hard you graft in a job, someone else has already decided the most you’ll ever earn from it.

You can be the best in the building, stay late, carry the team, and there’s still a number at the top you’re not allowed past. Work twice as hard and you don’t get twice as much. You get a thank you, maybe a small raise, and the same ceiling a foot higher.

That’s not a dig at having a job. It’s just how a job works. You’re building something, you’re just building it for someone else, and they decide what your effort is worth.

A business of your own flips that completely. What you put in is what you get. Have a good month and you feel it. Look after your customers and they come back, and they bring their friends with them. There’s no manager setting your limit, because the only limit is how far you want to take it.

And this is the bit a lot of people relate to. It’s not about being rich overnight, because that isn’t real. The real pull is knowing that for once, the effort is yours, the growth is yours, and nobody can cap it but you.

Hundreds of people from all walks of life have made that switch with us, most with no travel experience at all, and they’ll tell you the same thing. The hard work didn’t change, but the pay off certainly did.

If you’ve ever felt like you’re worth more than your job will ever pay you, it might be time to find out what building your own thing could look like.

Check out the link in the comments for more information

25/10/2026

You’re not stuck in this unfulfilling 9-to-5 because you lack ambition. You’re stuck because you can’t afford to walk away from the wage that pays the bills. But you don’t have to walk away at all, and Alex is living proof of that.

Alex has spent his whole career in finance, and he’s just started his own travel business without giving up a day of it. He did it with our Lite package.

Lite is our lower-cost way into the travel industry, from £995, and it’s designed to take the risk out of starting. You begin part time, around the job you’ve already got, so your income never stops while you find your feet.

The real difference is the mentor. From day one you’re paired with an experienced travel consultant whose job is simply to help you succeed. They coach you, answer your questions, show you how to find your first customers, and support you with the bookings while you learn the ropes. Whenever something comes up you’re not sure about, there’s someone who’s already done it on the end of a message, so you’re never sat there guessing.

You also get full training and a learning centre to work through at your own pace, building real skills and real confidence before you need them. Then, when your business is ready to grow, you upgrade to Elite and go bigger.

For Alex it was a natural fit. He’s always been the one planning everyone’s holidays, so the instinct was already there. Now he’s building in the evenings and weekends, growing something of his own while his salary keeps rolling in.

That’s the whole idea. You don’t quit and hope. You build it on the side, with an expert beside you, until it’s strong enough to leave the day job for.

If you’ve always suspected there’s more out there for you, this is how you find out without risking a thing. January is when the country books its holidays, so now’s the time to start.

Check out how the Lite package works 👉https://eu1.hubs.ly/H0zmss40

18/09/2026

This is what starting a travel business actually looks like on the Lite package.

One of our newest Lite consultants shared this the other day, a thank you to her mentor Gaynor. It captures exactly what the Lite Mentorship Programme is all about. She is still learning, still finding her feet, sometimes missing the odd detail along the way, and rather than being left to struggle, she has an experienced consultant beside her taking it all in her stride and helping her get it right.

That is the whole idea. When you start on the Lite package, you are paired with a mentor who has already built a successful travel business, and you learn the industry directly from them. You are allowed to make mistakes. You are allowed to ask the daft questions. You are allowed to go through the learning curve that every new business owner faces, with someone genuinely brilliant supporting you at every step rather than leaving you to work it all out on your own.

That support is what gives people the confidence to actually get going, and to keep going. You grow at your own pace, you get better with every enquiry, and you always have an expert in your corner.

And you can start for just £995.

If you have wanted a way into the travel industry where you are never on your own, this is it.

Find out more at the link in the comments.

17/09/2026

This is what a work trip can look like when you build a travel business with the right people behind you.

Our Elite franchisees are still out in Mauritius for their Elite Experience, and it has been quite a week. Days spent learning from the best in the business, mixed with time exploring an incredible resort, tasting the food, taking part in unforgettable activities and experiencing the kind of destination most people only ever dream about.

This is what makes our training so different. We believe the best way to learn about the travel industry is to experience it for yourself, which is why our consultants get so many travel opportunities built into their training. They come home from trips like this with first-hand knowledge, genuine relationships with the suppliers behind these resorts, and a confidence that their clients can feel in every conversation.

Two fully funded retreats like this are included in the Elite package, because that belief runs through everything we do. Franchisees tell us they are worth the franchise fee on their own, and looking at this week, it is easy to see why.

Curious what building a travel business with us could look like? Find out more at the link in the comments.

16/09/2026

How do you get the biggest names in travel to pick up the phone when you call?
On your own... it takes years, if it happens at all. When you join us, it is already done.

Our co-founder Steve Witt, alongside Head of Cruise Sales Duncan Croucher and Head of Trade Emma Holliday, spent the day with some of our trade partners, including Kuoni, Virgin Voyages and Newmarket Holidays. And this is the part people building a travel business alone never get to see. We build genuine relationships with the biggest names in the industry, we get to know the teams behind the scenes, and those relationships help our consultants get the very best for their clients.

That is something important to consider when you are deciding how to start. Go at it alone, and you begin as a stranger to every supplier, with no access, no relationship and no leverage. Join The Travel Franchise, and you inherit two decades of trusted partnerships from your very first day. The offers, the access and the expertise our partners provide are yours to draw on immediately.

You can't shortcut twenty years of relationships. But you can join a company that already has them.

Find out more at the link in the comments.

16/09/2026

Have you ever stopped to think about who decided what your time is worth? Because someone did, and the number they landed on is sitting at the top of your payslip.

No matter how hard you work, how many extra hours you put in or how much you achieve, the figure barely moves. Someone else set the ceiling, and you are expected to live underneath it.

Running your own business changes that completely. What you earn is no longer a number handed to you by someone else. It becomes a direct reflection of the effort you put in and the value you create, and there is no ceiling waiting to stop you.

That is exactly what so many of our consultants were looking for when they joined us. People from all walks of life who were tired of their income being capped, who wanted control over their time, and who decided they would rather build something of their own than keep making someone else richer.

You do not need travel experience to start. You need the decision to stop letting someone else set your limits.

If you are ready to take the lid off, find out more at the link in the comments.

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.

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/H0yh0s30

11/09/2026

Twenty five 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 five 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 five 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.

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.