New business - personal travel agent. Thoughts?

bris

You can't charge for a service then excuse yourself from liability. You are responsible for your services.

bibirella

I really like this idea! Make it something special! Make it personal and people are going to love coming to you!! With your experience this should be amazing, work out and also great fun!

motorguy

andrewm1981 wrote: »

There are things to iron out like how payment for the trips would be made (their card, but who actually pays the money?) but in principle, could this be a viable business? So many people have said that they would love to go on the adventure that we've been on, but wouldn't know where to start with regards to organising, which is where the idea came from!

There is a risk here that they run with the itinerary and pay you nothing. OR get you to do all the work, and not pay you. OR complain because there were no giraffes in sight on the safari you planned for them so want a refund.

And the other side of that is,if you pay for it all before they pay you, then you could be left with a very expensive holiday unpaid for AND because you are providing a service, i'd imagine you would very quickly hit the VAT threshold if you "buy" the holiday and "resell" it to them, meaning you'd have to factor in 1/6th of your profit for VAT.

I do think that getting money out of people for your service will be like herding kittens.