Travel Business Academy
We are building the next generation of online travel companies. Come join us! Start a travel business; member-only, private sale, flash sale travel websites, trip/tour operator businesses, destination activity businesses, tour guide, guides, travel brokers.
You can start a travel business in any country in the world. Grow your current travel business to the next level. Enroll today in the World’s first ever, Travel Business Academy-Start up & Growth Program. Learn how to launch and grow a home-based online travel business with Matt Zito a travel business expert and veteran online travel entrepreneur.
At the Travel Business Academy, you will learn to create a unique online travel brand for your new travel company, selling a travel product or vacation package, to a targeted core niche traveler or niche travel destination, with contractual agreements directly with travel suppliers, with a goal of selling 100 travel bookings and gross profits of 20%-30% per booking.
The Travel Business Academy is open to anyone, worldwide. The program can be applied no matter what country you live in and no matter where you want to operate your business.
Get in on the ground floor of the next big wave in online travel. The NEW social e-commerce travel websites, also known as the daily deal, private sale, flash-sale, member-only travel websites are going to be the next big market opportunity in online travel and just one type of travel business you can start. Stake your claim and position your online travel business niche now!
The Travel Business Academy Start up & Growth Program includes:
*5 online business development and marketing modules. Go through each module at your own pace and build your online travel business from the ground up.
*Downloadable worksheets that take you through proven business start-up processes.
*Access to the Travel Business Academy member forum, where you can network with other like-minded entrepreneurs.
*Training videos, marketing reports, and the Travel Business Library packed with educational resources about the travel business.
*Sample contracts and travel supplier pitch letters I’ve used in my travel businesses over the past 15 years.
Travel Business Academy NEW Member Spotlight:
Hurley World Travel Co.
Joe Hurley, the CEO of Hurley World Travel is a Travel Business Academy–Start up & Growth Program Consulting member-client. Joe is going through the consulting program to develop a golf trip/tour operator business, targeted at golfers from the Washington DC/Baltimore area. He has identified his niche travel product as a all-inclusive golf package at a high-end all-inclusive resort in Mexico.
Joe is currently in the negotiation process with a major resort working on preferred wholesale lodging rates. Utilizing the Travel Business Academy’s Start up Modules and the consulting services of Matt Zito, Joe has successfully identified his niche core targeted buyer, established a niche geo-location to sell his product into upon the launch of his travel product and he has used the sample contracts and sample pitch and solicit letters to make contact with the director of sales and USA reservation agent at the resort. He will soon be receiving his first proposal from the resort including the resorts wholesale lodging rates.
Joe and the Hurley World Travel Co. are on their way to building a golf tour business.
Travel Business Academy NEW Member Spotlight:
Rhonda C!
Rhonda C. is a new member of the Travel Business Academy– Start up & Growth Program. I recently spoke with Rhonda by phone about her plans for starting a tennis tour operator/trip operator business.
Professional Background: Rhonda is currently a teaching tennis professional on the East Coast, with a former product marketing background in Los Angeles, collaborating on the Serena Williams tennis line for Puma years back. Rhonda’s goal is to build an online business that she can transition into as her next full time career.
Travel Business Start up: Rhonda is pursuing a tennis tour operator/trip operator business that will take USA travelers to Spain to experience the finest facilities & in vogue Spanish teaching methodologies of today’s top pros. She is leveraging her tennis connections both here in the USA and in Spain to help jump-start her new business.
Overcoming Fear: Fear and greed are an entrepreneurs two biggest downfalls. While speaking with Rhonda she asked if it was normal to be ‘afraid’, as she is noticing fear in this new venture. I told her that if she didn’t have some fears that she wasn’t normal and fear is just part of the start up process. It will subside and even may completely remove from within, once she take action and begins to build momentum. In the Travel Business Academy we teach the Power of 100, a start up philosophy and sales goal that teaches you to build a business and start with the goal of selling 100 bookings or reservations.
When you start any new venture fear will play its part. Fear enables inaction. Fear immobilizes us from moving forward. By establishing a goal of 100 sales and or bookings we set a path in front of us thus we remove many obstacles that stop most entrepreneurs from even getting started. As you take action and move forward and gain momentum your fears will subside. But not until you take action will your fears subside and ultimately be removed from your psyche.
Current stage in the start up process: Rhonda is currently working through Module #2 of the Travel Business Academy and soon will be calling on potential travel supplier partners in Spain. As part of the membership the Travel Business Academy has a private members forum where members can post questions directly to Matt Zito. Rhonda has been utilizing this part of the membership service and Matt has been answering questions for her on a weekly basis. In addition to posting questions to Matt about building a travel business members can network amongst each other and share information about their progress.
How Rhonda found the Travel Business Academy: Rhonda read a blog post that Matt wrote on a 3rd party travel industry website then researched who Matt was professionally and his travel accomplishments in the travel industry. She said that there is nothing like the Travel Business Academy anywhere online and that the Academy is a one-of-kind start up program and membership website geared solely to entrepreneurs looking to start a travel company.
Travel Agent/Agency Home Based Programs: Rhonda said that there are many ‘cheesy home based travel agent programs online’ but they simply promote how to sell other tour operators products. Rhonda says, “The home based travel agent programs don’t teach you how to build an actual tour operator business, like the Travel Business Academy does.”
Rhonda C. is on her way to building a new career and developing the foundation for a successful travel business. Stay tuned for more developments on Rhonda and her new tennis trip/tour operator business. We wish her all the best in her pursuit of building a new travel business.
Are you ready to start building your own home-based travel business?