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01-11-2008, 06:46 PM
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| Community Rank: Traveler  Join Date: Apr 2005 Location: Houston, TX
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|  Becoming a Disney Travel Agent I am interested in becoming a travel agent that specializes in Disney Vacations. We travel to Disney often. All my friends come to me for advice. I help with their resort choices, dining choices and putting together an itinerary. I would love to do this for a living and make some extra money. I am a stay at home mom whose children are in school all day. I would like to work for myself or out of my home. Any advice on where to begin? What classes to take? Any help is very much appreciated.
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01-12-2008, 09:40 AM
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| Dream Maker  Join Date: Jan 2003 Location: Chester County, PA
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| "There are probably as many ways of being a home-based travel agent as there are home-based travel agents. No one does it exactly the same." That is quoted from Kelly Monaghan, of the Intrepid Travel's site Becoming a Travel Agent - The Home-Based Travel Agent Resource Center. He offers a good course which will give you a lot of details, information and point you in the right direction once you decide if this is what you want to do. It's not hard to become a home-based agent but there are questions and decisions that you will have to make. What type of agent: booking or referral? To use a host agency or not? Will you need specialized training or courses? The work can be sporadic and frustrating yet equally rewarding, both financially and personally. It may take time to establish a client base so it helps to go into it with your eyes wide open as to the limitations (and potential) to this type of work. Feel free to email or PM me with any additional questions!
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01-17-2008, 11:03 PM
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| Community Rank: Trekker  Join Date: Apr 2004
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| I'm going to second everything Lynn has to say about Kelly. His books are top notch and the Desk Reference is always close at hand. In addition, I'd recommend the books by Tom and Joanie Ogg (Home Based Travel Agent Information Center). There's more to selling travel than just knowing the destination, although that's an important part of it. It's a business, and you have to treat it as one. I would recommend taking Disney's course work. I would also recommend taking several of the CLIA courses. They have courses that teach you about valuable skills such as telephone sales and groups.
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