A home based travel agency offers many unique and financial opportunities. It is an exciting field that provides many types of perks.

Anyone can work a home based travel agency. Home based travel agencies are run by working moms, professionals, and nonprofessionals. It can be done part time or full time from your home. It can be done occasionally or on a regular basis.

A home based travel agency is a home based business. There are many tax advantages. If the expenses contribute to the success of your home home-based business, then they are tax deductible. Trips with your family are tax deductible because they are work related. Automobile mileage is tax deductible if you are meeting with a client. Event and sports tickets may be tax deductible if you are prospecting and passing out business cards.

A home based travel agency can take "Fam Trips" or familiarization trips. Fam trips are a low-cost trips or tours offered to travel agents by a supplier or group of suppliers to familiarize the agents with their destination and services. An example may be a trip to Tahiti that normally sells for $5000 but a travel agent will get for $500.

Travel agents get their vacations at wholesale rates. Hotels, cruiselines, etc. want travel agents to be pampered so that they will go back and tell their clients about the property.

Travel agents can run their business from anywhere in the world because of the internet. A home based travel agency does not have to be run just from home.

One of the most important reasons to own a home based travel agency is the money. Commissions can be very lucrative. For example, organizing a group cruise can pay the home based agent a commission and they may be able to go for free on the trip.