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Do you love booking cheap flights, choosing fancy hotels, and planning fun vacations? Are you the travel maven for your friends and family -- always giving people tips and tricks for booking affordable trips?
You could turn your travel passion into a side hustle -- it's called Fora Travel. This travel business helps people book trips with personalized recommendations from online travel agents, or "Fora Advisors."
Let's take a look at why travel enthusiasts might want to use Fora Travel for a new side hustle.
I'm super passionate about travel. I've visited 12 countries, and I love researching airfares and hotels and using travel rewards credit cards to get cheap flights and free nights. But not everyone loves booking their own travel -- the search tools and websites and credit card rewards rules can be overwhelming.
Some people want more personalized advice and hands-on help with travel bookings. That's what Fora Travel (foratravel.com) can deliver -- travelers can use Fora Travel to book their next trip with the help of a Fora Advisor who's personally matched with you.
You'll get personal recommendations and your Fora Advisor will handle all the arrangements, creating a curated experience where you don't have to sweat all the details of planning your trip -- instead, you can just pay and go.
Fora doesn't cost any extra money for travelers -- you'll pay the same price for your trips with Fora that you'd pay by booking directly with the airlines, hotels, cruise lines, or resorts. But as a travel agency, Fora Travel earns a commission on the cost of the trip.
Who should use Fora Travel as a side hustle?
Anyone who's passionate about travel and is known among their friends and family as an expert travel planner, deal-finder, and tastemaker might want to try Fora Travel. You can start by selling travel to your family and friends -- help your friends book their honeymoon, or help your parents book a cruise. Starting with your inner circle can help you build your business from the ground up.
How Fora Travel Advisors make money
Fora Travel earns a commission on every travel booking its customers buy -- and that commission varies by the travel package and by travel partner. Fora says its commissions range from 10%-25%, with an average of 12%. And 70% of that commission goes to you, the Fora Travel Advisor. For example, if you help someone book a vacation package that costs $2,000, with a 12% commission, Fora Travel will get $240, and you'll get to keep 70% of that, or $168.
There's one significant cost of doing business as a Fora Travel Advisor: Fora charges its Advisors a membership fee of $49 per month, or $299 per year (billed once annually). If you sell about $600 of travel per month, you can cover the $49 monthly fee. When you think about it, compared to the cost of office space or a brick-and-mortar storefront, paying $49 per month is a low cost of starting a business.
And you get plenty of value for that fee -- Fora Travel provides marketing support, sales training, resources, partnerships, mentoring, networking, and travel perks. You don't have to go it alone with your travel agent side hustle; you'll be plugged into a larger community of people who love selling travel and who are trying to help each other succeed.
Bottom line
If you're an outgoing person who loves sharing your latest travel adventures on social media and who believes in the value of travel as a life-affirming experience, starting a side hustle as a Fora Travel Advisor might be right for you.
Be aware of the Fora Advisor membership fee costs; but if you're a motivated, highly focused travel salesperson, you could easily recoup those fees and make plenty of profit to put money in your bank account . Learn more at foratravel.com.
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