Home-Based Travel Advisors Use These Tricks for Sanity and Productivity
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Running a home-based travel agency is not without its challenges, including isolation, getting motivated, and keeping work and personal life from colliding. Fortunately, there is plenty of support, including from industry peers, to help the process.
The biggest leisure travel agency trend in the past couple of decades is the shift from storefront to homefront. While it’s great to work in your sweats and skip the commute, running a home office can also bring challenges like isolation, and the need for self-motivation and work-life balance.
According to the most recent Labor & Compensation Report (2016) from the American Society of Travel Advisors, nearly 40 percent of the organization’s travel agency members are home-based. Skift sought the perspective from several veteran travel advisors on what it takes to run an agency from home and enjoy the process.
Home Alone
For many travel advisors, especially those accustomed to working in an office with colleagues, the sense of being “home alone” can be unexpectedly difficult.
While Lynda Phillippi, who has run Renaissance Travel and Events from her home in Portland, Oregon, since 2004, is happy with her situation, the down side is “missing out on the camaraderie of
