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Summary: How to Start a Home Based Travel Agency
Review: Feels like the sun comes up behind the dark mountains. All questions in my mind was cleared after reading the book and I am now ready to become an independent travel agent.
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Summary: Pages and editor missing but highly informative
Review: I bought this book hoping to open my own home-based travel agency but decided half way through the book it wasn't really the career for me. So I received enough information to let me know that I didn't want to waste any more time pursuing a career as a travel agent. There was information on how 9/11 has negatively impacted the travel industry. It also made me realize how much more difficult it is to break into the business without negotiating with specific companies for referral commissions and that travel agencies now have to charge fees for issuing airline tickets because airlines no longer provide commissions (because most of them have never recovered from 9/11 and are on the brink of bankruptcy). I personally prefer to buy tickets directly from the airlines to avoid additional costs.
I realized that being a travel agent was going to be more effort than I was willing to put forth for what sounds like scraps - according to the authors' description of how the industry currently works.
So buy this book if you are REALLY serious about wanting to start your own travel agency but realize you may not get all of the information because of missing pages and horrible editing.
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Summary: Poor Editing and Terrible Writing
Review: I found this book completely unhelpfull and a waste of money. I know nothing about the travel industry and looked to this book as my introduction into it. I am more confused than ever and now have no intention of entertaining the idea of opening my own home-based agency. Thanks but no thanks.
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Summary: Look again
Review: I found this book completely unhelpfull and a waste of money. I know nothing about the travel industry and looked to this book as my introduction into it. I am more confused than ever and now have no intention of entertaining the idea of opening my own home-based agency. Thanks but no thanks.
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Summary: Poor Editing and Terrible Writing
Review: I purchased this book and "Home-Based Travel Agent" by Monaghan. Tom Ogg's book is very, very poorly editted (tons of typos, bad grammar, etc.) It also has limited info about starting a Travel business. Most of the text is generic and would apply to starting ANY business--not specifically travel. I was disappointed with this purchase and returned the book. The other book bu Monaghan is much better.
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Summary: Poor Editing and Terrible Writing
Review: I purchased this book and "Home-Based Travel Agent" by Monaghan. Tom Ogg's book is very, very poorly editted (tons of typos, bad grammar, etc.) It also has limited info about starting a Travel business. Most of the text is generic and would apply to starting ANY business--not specifically travel. I was disappointed with this purchase and returned the book. The other book bu Monaghan is much better.
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Summary: Tons of insightful information, but very poorly edited.
Review: I read through this book cover to cover to learn more about the travel and home based travel agency industry. The information contained within was extremely useful, and provided a terrific overview of the steps necessary to start you own business. Perhaps it made it seem a little too easy to become successful as a home based travel agent, but the ingredients were all there. This included setting up your business, creating a marketing plan, hooking up to the travel provider network, and training involved.However, I am only giving this book 3 stars because the editing job for this book seemed non-existent. Lack of commas throughout, many typos, blank lines in the middle of paragraphs, grammatical errors, and other basic editing tasks were obviously not done. I can't imagine why this level of polish was left out. If you can ignore this then the book is well worth it for the knowledge gained. I also wanted to note that the authors promote their own affiliated web sites a little too often throughout the text which wasn't necessary. A more unbiased set of Web links would have been more useful.
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Summary: Great Book!
Review: I was a "travel agent" for GTI and just didn't get the support I needed and found the benefits non-existent. But I found out that I wanted to become a real travel agent. I bought both books from Amazon.com and found How to Start a Home Based Travel Agency the best book for anyone wanting to start a serious career selling travel. The other book is good if you want to join GTI or organizations like that. I didn't find many errors in it at all.
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Summary: Great Book!
Review: I was a "travel agent" for GTI and just didn't get the support I needed and found the benefits non-existent. But I found out that I wanted to become a real travel agent. I bought both books from Amazon.com and found How to Start a Home Based Travel Agency the best book for anyone wanting to start a serious career selling travel. The other book is good if you want to join GTI or organizations like that. I didn't find many errors in it at all.
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Summary: GREAT BOOK, USE AS A REFERNCE GUIDE
Review: TAKES YOU STEP BY STEP, HOW TO BEGIN, HOW TO SET UP FILES, WRITE A BUSINESS PLAN, MARKETING PLANS ETC. HELPS YOU TO DECIDE WHAT YOU WANT AND SOLIDIFY HOW YOU PLAN TO ACHIEVE IT. GIVES SOURCES TO FIND MORE INFO.
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