Almost every industry in the world suffered from the past few months’ economic downturn. However, several businesses proved to be resilient to such economic plague like groceries, repairs/maintenance, and travel business.
As we can observe, the travel business is one of the most lucrative businesses today unlike the car and insurance businesses. It is something that we can depend on for survival during these hard times because it is a business that has a steady market. And having a steady market means that it is one step ahead of the Global Recession.
Even in the time of recession, people still take vacations. You can still see a great deal of people applying for passports and tourist visas. Maybe once or twice, you encounter someone with a plane ticket or a cruise ship ticket who talks to you about the how he/she would plan to have fun over the next month or so. And of course, you have experienced going somewhere to have a time for recreation – somewhere far from your daily regular life. The point is that we know and encounter people who regularly take vacations. Now, you can use it to your advantage by setting up home based business that caters to their travel needs. After all, you can do it over the internet and it is actually a good endeavor especially if you are looking for a few extra cash.
Well, actually it is quite easy: you only need to show your clients some travel options, travel advice, where to get discounts, and places to visit. All of these information you can easily access through the internet. Ask them their preferences for hotels, vehicle rental, souvenir shops, and other things that are essential to their trip. After that, you can already finalize the transactions through the internet. Your clients would pay for their trip while you receive your trvel commissions. This is a percentage that you receive from arranging hotel accommodations, plane fares, packaged tours etc. This is your real and tangible income which is not only profitable but also lucrative.
What is surprising is that even in a time of global recession, travel business continues to soar. What people did was to minimize the costs of the trip by getting discounted travels. In effect, these discount packages drew in more customers and accumulated more travel commissions than was originally expected. In this way, everyone becomes a winner. More clients get discounts. You get to accumulate more commissions. And everyone is made happy amidst the global recession.
In this business, most potential travelers would want to make the best out of the deals that they made with the travel agent. Given their preference and the effect of Global Recession to everyday lives, you can reel them in by offering them various discounted travel options which are too tempting. As a travel agent, you are in the position to help their dreams of going to places become a reality while still saving some money for whatever reasons they need. So in the end, in the light of Global Recession, you can make a few extra dollars while helping people get away from monotonous and uneventful confines of a workplace and lead them to an idyllic paradise of their choice. If you earn enough maybe you can plan your vacation too.