Home Based Online Travel Agent

Program Benefits

Choose The Program
Whether you’re an experienced travel agent, an agency owner interested in reducing overhead or someone looking to learn the business, we have a program for you to add on to your income. Eliminate Unnecessary Overhead Attention agency owners! You didn’t get in the travel business to make reports, pay rent and deal with unproductive employees. Now you can move your travel business home, retain your clients and top producers, affiliate with us and increase your profitability.

Maximize Your Time With Clients
It’s true, you don’t make money in travel until you actually sell something. By affiliating with dewanholidays.com you can spend more time consulting with your clients and building your business. It all results in increased loyalty and repeat business from happy clients. Our program offers you complete control over the entire sales process with your clients.

Your Own Identity
As a home-based travel agent or agency, you retain your own identity with your customers and are considered a “self-employed” independent contractor for tax purposes.

Remember, you are responsible to pay taxes related to your business/ income i.e. service tax, Income tax etc.

Secure Client List
Because you are an independent contractor, your client list is your property and will not be used or sold. You control your list and your marketing.

Manage your Branches
Expand your business by opening more branches. Your branches will have access to most of the same tools you have, including a private-labeled consumer website. We pay you on their bookings. You pay them.

Your Own Private White Label Website
At No Additional Cost Included in your annual fee is a complete White Label website that includes our on-line booking capabilities tracked back to you for commission payment. We encourage you to register your own domain and have us point this site to your unique domain. Now you can compete with the top Internet sites.

Preferred Suppliers
Because of our size and buying power, we have negotiated many of our preferred supplier arrangements directly with our key suppliers.

Group Expertise and Support
Take advantage of our expertise in finding, negotiating and executing all types of group travel, from leisure groups to meetings and incentives. Our special Group Section will help you to offer a very competitive cost to materialize your group booking requirement.

Program Features

General
• Administrative, accounting and technical support on-line and by phone
• Merchant account processing
• No minimum productivity requirements

Commission

• Make best commission mark up your own commission on Air & Hotels
• Make good commission on domestic/ International packages
• Referral incentives

Technology
• Professionally developed and maintained White Label Website with unparalleled
  online booking functionality

Products
• Domestic / International Air Tickets
• Domestic / International Hotels
• Domestic individual / Group packages
• Pilgrimage packages
• International Individual Packages
• Europe/ USA Group Departures
• Eurail Tickets/ passes
• Overseas medical Insurance.
• Leisure/Honeymoon packages
• Cruises – Royal Caribbean, MSC, Carnival, Princes etc
• Groups/Meetings/Incentives
• Commission & Fees

We offer commission/ incentives as follows:-
1.Air Tickets:
Commission on air tickets are displayed at B2B interface which is common to all home based online travel agents. But every HBOTA can add markup from the B2B interface functionality as per their requirement

2. Hotels:
We offer net rates to our HBOTAs but they can add markup from the B2B interface as per their requirement.

3. Packages & Cruises:
The commission / incentives on packages & cruises are displayed at B2B interface results. Whenever to search for a package the results show cost to customer & also cost to agent.

4. Eurail Tickets & Passes:
The commission on Eurail Tickets & passes also displayed at B2B interface.

5. Overseas Medical Insurance:
we offer 15% commission on overseas medical insurance.

6. Group Rates:
All group rates are net & non commissionable. Agent can add markup as per their requirement & quote to their agents. The agent can also avail the benefit of Free tickets & other services to escort/travel with the group. Hence can see the world without paying for it.

All above commission / incentives are subject to change without notice.

Fees:
Dewanholidays.com charge the following:

• Rs 16534=00 ( Rs 14990 + 10.3% Service Tax) as annual Fee
• RS 2206=00 (RS 2000 + 10.3% Service Tax) Monthly Fee

The domain name registration charges & hosting fee ( Appx Rs 500-900) is not including in the above. Our staff will be happy to get register domain name as per your choice (subject to availability). The cost to register domain name will be extra.

The B2B2C website will be as http://yourname.dewanholidays.com. if you want that it appear as www.yourname.com, the hosting fee Rs 5000 + 10.3% service Tax will be charged extra.

Build a Business

Home-based businesses are the trend of the future. Reports show that increasing numbers of people are now opting to work out of their homes. In fact, many entrepreneurs are now working at home, most of which are in the services as LIC agents, Property dealers, students, Travel Trade Students, Small & Medium Travel agents and anyone who want add on to their income by just en-cashing their contacts:

Here are several reasons why it pays to work at home:
1. To Gain Personal Freedom:
The most enticing aspect of starting a home-based business is the opportunity it provides to gain control over your own life. As a home business entrepreneur, you can shape your work life depending on your goals and environment. You have the freedom to work and earn as you choose in the comfort of your own home. Good time management skills and discipline are a must!

2. To Reap Financial Benefits:
The convenience of having your office a few steps away from your bedroom allows you to save on commute time and expenses and you won’t be needing those power suits any more. Since you work at home, overhead costs are cut significantly, allowing you to invest back into your business. Your earning potential is directly proportional to your performance. More importantly, however, a home-based travel business allows people who have been shut out of the job market to create new income opportunities.

3. To Be With The Family:
Many opt to start their travel business (or move an existing business from an office) from their homes to strengthen family relationships. A home-based travel business allows family members to be involved in the business.

4. To Reduce Stress:
Working at home can reduce the stress of juggling the demands of your work life with those of your private life. (It can also add to your stress if you’re not careful!). You can work while staying at home to care for a sick child, or continue to work late at night after dinner and the kids are in bed.

5. For Job Enrichment:
As a home-based travel entrepreneur, you are not boxed into one job. You are free to learn and perform a variety of work-related tasks. If you are a solo agent, then you will become a jack-of-all-trades: the strategy setter, marketing and sales person, agent, accountant, group escort, and other roles. You can vary your activities to keep you from getting bored. While it means a greater workload, the plus side is that you develop an understanding of all aspects of your own business and grow personally.

6. To Increase Productivity:
Many home-based travel entrepreneurs find that working at home helps them to be more productive. With less time dedicated to commuting, there is more time available for your clients. Keep in mind that your productivity is directly related to your earning potential.

7. To Harness Competitive Advantages:
One of the biggest benefits of working out of your home is the reduced overhead cost. Lower operation costs can enable you to be more competitive, not just in the prices you charge, but also in the quality of service you offer.

Given these benefits and more, the trend toward home-based travel businesses is clearly just beginning. We hope you’ll choose to affiliate with dewanholidays.com to gain the necessary tools to be successful from home