👝 TOURIST BUSINESS - OPENING A TRAVEL AGENCY

How to open a travel agency
⚒ First of all, you need to distinguish between the concepts of tourist operator and travel agency.
A tour operator organizes a tour: buys plane tickets, books rooms in foreign hotels, plans excursions, and so on.
The travel agency simply sells this tour for a commission. In order to become a tour operator, large investments are required, sometimes exceeding tens of millions of rubles. To open a travel agency, one million rubles is often enough.

Travel agency registration
⚒ Registering a travel agency today is not difficult. Licensing for such activities was cancelled. The most suitable form for a start-up company is individual entrepreneurship, which is very easy to open. To do this, you do not need to involve third-party organizations and various kinds of consultants.

A smart manager is the key to success
⚒ “The tourism business does not tolerate amateurs,” - this expression, in the best possible way, proves the importance of the qualifications of travel agency workers. A successful agency only needs two or three professional managers. But, as practice shows, not every company is able to recruit even such a staff of qualified personnel.

Business pitfalls
⚒ According to some experts, a business such as a travel agency will soon run the risk of becoming obsolete, that is, the need for agent services will simply disappear. And the reason for this is the Internet. There are managers who have personally traveled on fifty tours, and their knowledge and rich experience still allow them to compete with the information that Internet resources offer today. At the same time, most managers have not visited even 10 tours.