Extremely rare in the tourism sector, several home travel agents are emerging. Often positioned on the high end, they do not make large turnovers but give off strong returns.
Arrange travel for clients, sometimes even a dinner, or at their place of work, that is what home offer travel agencies. With a license and a financial guarantee as any agency or tour operator classics, these home agencies are extremely rare. The SNAV, the national union of travel agents which includes many of the agencies (but not all) do not elsewhere from among its members.
"These are mainly companies specialized in custom travel and upscale. They typically do not generate large revenues to the extent that they deal with on average a quarantine folders to the year, but they give off strong returns. In view of their high-end positioning, they have no room for error, "says Richard Vainopoulos, president of Tourcom travel agency network, which has about fifteen home agencies on 724 agencies this network.
Among them, Praise agency of the World, created earlier this year by Helen Lanier, a young entrepreneur of 32 years in the Paris region, which, after twelve years with different tour operators, decided to take the step business creation to transmit his passion for travel.
Customers who do not have time to search the Internet
"Some customers, especially businessmen, have no time to go to travel or do Internet research agencies," she says. So she's going to meet them in their homes or near their workplace, in Paris and the suburbs, but also in the region.
"This concept will develop," she says, convinced that the maquis of Internet travel deals favors home agencies. For customer is wider than that of businessmen.
Among the twenty records conducted between January and July, Praise the World has a large number of dynamic retirees, but also honeymooners, eager to have a very caring service - honeymoons lend themselves well to this concept. Established in Fréjus in the Var, Karine Polo Travel & Artisans even decided to make it a priority. Finally, the market is even wider than it is not limited to the high end.
