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Live 1-day Seminar

Travel Business Academy-Start a Travel Business

Feb 25th – Orlando, Florida

Learn how to launch and grow a home-based travel business with veteran travel entrepreneur and online travel business expert, Matt Zito.

In our 1-day Travel Business Academy-Seminar you'll learn how to create a unique travel brand for your new travel company, selling a travel product or vacation package, to a targeted core niche traveler or niche travel destination, with contractual agreements directly with travel suppliers, with a goal of selling 100 travel bookings and gross profits of 20%-30% per booking.

Start a travel business today in any country in the world!

Member-only, Private sale, Flash sale travel websites

Trip/tour operator businesses

Destination Activity businesses

Tour Guide, Guides

Travel Brokers

Get in on the ground floor of the next big wave in online travel. The NEW social e-commerce travel websites, also known as the daily deal, private sale, flash-sale, member-only travel websites are going to be the next big market opportunity in online travel and just one type of travel business you can start.

Maybe you have always wanted to start your own home-based travel business but were not sure how or where to start or maybe your stuck in your current online travel business and need some expert business advice and some new ideas. The frustration ends in 2012. Now is your chance to launch the business you always wanted!

My name is Matt Zito. I am a veteran online travel business entrepreneur having sold over $3,000,000 in online travel from my home-based office. I am also an online travel business consultant (some call me the TravelBizGuru) that will be teaching you at the 1-day travel business seminar.

Yeah, that’s a picture of me below at the Travel Weekly Leisure World Conference in Atlantic City where I was a featured presenter.

I recently spoke at the Eye for Travel, Travel Distribution Summit in Las Vegas September 19-20, 2011.

On stage with me were representatives from Living Social the leading Daily Deals company, Ideeli Travel, Off & Away and Kimpton Hotels.

In speaking with prospective travel business owners week in and week out the biggest hurdle I hear is that you are unsure about where and how to start and that you think you have to do everything in the beginning. This “mind set” leads you to loose focus and ultimately never gets you off the ground.

What I teach and coach online travel entrepreneurs, is to simplify, scale down the original business idea, leverage a competitive advantage, find that core sweet spot, focusing on taking incremental actionable steps that give you momentum to generating your first dollar in sales.

Positive momentum leads to a reduction in fear and is the fuel for the fire that carries you forward. Just like in all competitive sports, the online travel business startup process is all about generating positive momentum.

At the 1-day Travel Business Academy-Seminar you'll learn many facets of how the online travel industry works, helping you simplify your business idea. I'll take you through 5 business building modules including worksheets where you'll actually start building your travel business. The modules are designed as an action plan that moves you forward from idea to ultimately your launch.

I keep my seminars small and intimate so you’ll get the full one-on-one attention you need. I like to be hands on as well so you can be confident that you’ll learn everything you need to know about how to start an online travel business including business development strategies, marketing tactics and business insight derived from my over 17-years in the travel business.

The online travel industry is growing and is back in full swing. IBISWorld expects travel and tourism revenue in 2011 to hit $1.4 trillion. “The opportunity in the sector will be the highest it has ever been.” Entrepreneur Magazine.

It’s your time now to grab a piece of the trillion dollar global travel and tourism marketplace.

Starting a business is difficult and there are many moving parts. Over the years I have started successful travel companies and I have had a few failures. Look, anyone who tells you they have never failed aren’t true entrepreneurs.

My biggest winner was CollegeSkiTrips.com, an online travel company my wife and I had started when we were in college, built into the largest youth-ski travel company in the country and sold the business in 2007, now owned by the largest ski travel company in the North America. It is the Entrepreneurs dream, build it, scale it, sell it.

Today I consultant, advise and work directly with some of the biggest names in the travel industry including two of the leading new daily deal websites that are now entering the travel business.

A few of my clients, business partners and corporate alliances.

My companies, marketing strategies and business commentary have been featured in the following major media outlets. I tell you this not to brag but to show you that I am a proven successful travel entrepreneur and consultant.

You may be asking yourself, what types of online travel businesses can I start as a home-based business?

At the 1-day seminar I will introduce you to the new daily deal, private sale, flash sale, members-only travel web sites, and the more traditional tour operator, trip operator, tour guide, online travel agency and the new travel broker business in which I literally invented and am active in today. You may already have an idea of the type of travel business you want to start and that is great.

Now is the time to get in on the ground floor of the next big wave in online travel. I believe the daily deal, private sale, member-only travel may be the next big market opportunity in online travel. The big players have just started taking positions.

This seminar is geared towards individuals looking to become home-based entrepreneurs, individuals and companies looking to get into the online travel business and home based travel agents and travel agencies looking to transition into an online travel business. Really anyone interested in starting an online travel business, this is for you.

At the Travel Business Academy- Seminar you will learn,

The ins and outs of the travel business including the traditional online travel business models and the hot new deal travel business models that are gaining market share.

How to assess travel opportunities and uncover true unmet needs in the travel marketplace.

Case Studies of successful companies uncovering the business elements that ultimately helped them succeed.

How to validate your travel product and business idea through research and analysis.

How to create USPs (Unique Selling Propositions) that hit the sweet spots that give you a competitive advantage over the larger online travel companies.

How to turn your USPs into benefits for the buyer of your travel products.

How to second tier niche and launch into a market that is growing where you can build a nice little six-figure income working from home.

How to enter a multi-million dollar travel opportunity by simplifying a core product, proving sales and scalability so you can successfully pitch your business to angel investors and venture capitalists.

Pricing strategies that will make your business money.

How to budget to Bootstrap with limited finances.

How to create a travel product that sells.

3 business start up documents that will help you generate your first sale within 30-days of launch.

How to create a light-model sales plan to acquire your first 100 sales.

How to build a company with only one travel product at launch.

Over 60 worksheets, reports and documents

How to acquire a domain name and name your business.

How to identify your travel supplier partners and solicit their business.

How to create win-win deals with your suppliers.

How to negotiate and write an iron clad hotel or lodging contract that gets you the best rate possible.

Hotel negotiating strategies and secrets.

Over 20 sample contracts for contracting.

Learn about the 15+ different software and technology website platforms you can buy and or license affordably to operate and run your online travel business.

Marketing strategies to attract buyers of your online travel products.

Online advertising opportunities to attract buyers of your online travel products.

Learn how to build a team by outsourcing portions of your business.

Learn how to build automated systems into your business that limit the amount of time and effort you ultimately have to put into your business.

Learn accounting setup, home office preparation and business licensing.

How to write a Launch plan that ties everything together.

This is a high-level business seminar without the huge cost.

A business start up seminar of the same caliber as the Travel Business Academy- Seminar would cost between $3,000-$10,000 and this would probably be taught by someone who never operated a travel business before. But you won’t pay $3,000-$10,000, no this 1-full day seminar is much, much more affordable and you’ll be blown away at the cost.

Let me first tell you my entrepreneurial story and my business achievements.

I have been a travel entrepreneur my entire life. I am self-made. I had a wonderful upbringing and went to college but I was never handed anything. I built my business on my own two feet, with hard work and determination. My first entry into the travel business was in college, when I bused college students from George Mason University in Fairfax, Virginia to the bars of “M Street” in downtown Georgetown, Washington DC. At the time, Mothers Against Drunk Drivers were everywhere on campus, picketing and yelling at college students not to drink and drive. Students from our school were driving down to DC, partying, and driving back.

I solved that problem easily; I just bused everyone down to the bars. My business model was simple and very lucrative. I made $3.00 per person for the bus ride down, received a $10 cover charge from the bar for each person that came into the bar that night, and received 10% of the gross bar takings for the entire night. Some nights, I made over $1,000. When the buses arrived outside the bar and 50 kids got off, it caused a huge scene. Word would spread from bar to bar around M Street that buses full of college students had just rolled in to Winston’s and, before you knew it, the entire bar was packed.

The lesson here for you is that you can start your own travel business today with a very small budget if your resourceful and willing to be determined. The tools today available just weren't around when I started. There was no Internet and there was no college course on "how to start a travel business."

I got into the ski travel business whilst a junior in college, as a way of getting a free ski trip over Spring Break. My busing system worked, so I started running bus trips to ski resorts in Vermont over the college breaks. One thing led to another and, before I knew it, I was knee-deep in a full-time ski travel business. In 1996, the Internet started to come about, and we morphed into an online ski travel company with a fully-fledged, online and customized e-commerce booking engine. The business got bigger every year and, in 2007, my wife and I sold the business.

My travel business accomplishments and highlights include the following:

CollegeSkiTrips.com- Online Travel Agency/Tour Operator was acquired in August 2007. I was the founder and former CEO of CollegeSkiTrips.com, the leading “youth-based” online ski and snowboard travel company in North America. CollegeSkiTrips.com is now owned by the largest ski tour operator in the United States, Ski.com.

For the last year that I operated the business we were the #1 group buyer of hotel rooms at Breckenridge Ski Resort (Vail Resorts, Inc., a publicly trading company). In 2007, we sold 2,000 ski and snowboard trips.

We Partnered with STA Travel, the 9th largest travel company in the world, with 110 retail travel agencies. STA Travel sold our ski and snowboard packages. In 2007, STA Travel was our largest wholesaler distributor and travel partner.

We developed our own proprietary Online Travel Technology and Online Booking Engine, and built a proprietary online extranet for the 110 retail travel agencies to buy ski and snowboard packages for STA Travel clients.

We ran a sales team and distribution network that included up to fifteen sales representatives, distributing up to 200,000 brochures a year to over 2,000 colleges and universities in the U.S. & Canada.

CollegeSkiTrips.com became the #1 most visited website by college students searching for college ski trips through the Google & Yahoo search engines.

And here is the coolest part.

It was all accomplished from right here.

BONUS Offer #1 Each attendee will receive a 2-hour follow-up free consultation with me after the seminar to further assist you in building your travel business.

Can you really make money in an online travel business working from home?

Yes, it is true. You can make money online working from home and can actually make a lot of money if you work hard, stay focused and execute. Just look at the image above. I am proof that you can do the same its just a matter of having some guidance and working hard. You can build a business and live the Internet lifestyle you always dreamed of by operating an online travel business.

The mission of the Travel Business Academy- Seminar is to introduce you to the world of the online travel business and to help educate you on how to start and grow a successful online travel business in an affordable and professional environment.

The goal of the Travel Business Academy- Seminar is to assist you in creating a unique travel brand for your new online travel company, selling a travel product/package to a targeted core niche traveler or niche travel destination with contractual agreements directly with hotels and travel suppliers with a goal of selling 100 travel bookings/reservations and gross profits of 20%-30% per travel reservation.

If you can sell 100 bookings/reservations you will be on your way to building a successful company. I guarantee that when you complete the Travel Business Academy- Seminar you will have received the tools, education and insight to help you launch your startup travel business.

Can you start a “real” online travel business while still working full time? Absolutely. In fact most new businesses started today are by full-time employees that moonlight on the side. You should never stop your current cash flow, as you’ll need financial support from your current job and or from your spouse or partner while you are building your company.

My seminars are not only informative and educational but they are interactive and collaborative. We will break into small groups twice during the day and work together flushing out ideas and critiquing. There will be question and answer sessions and you’ll receive one-on-one consultation and time with me during the seminar.

Here is how the 1-day Travel Business Academy- Seminar works.

After you make a deposit payment to attend you should make your travel arrangements to Orlando, Florida. We will be having the seminar in a conference room at a hotel near Disney World in Orlando, Florida, the exact location to be announced soon. The hotel will be within a 15-minute cab ride of the Orlando International airport. At the seminar you'll receive a seminar packet that includes all 5 start up modules, worksheets and documents we will be using throughout the day.

Start up Module #1 -9 PDFs and Worksheets

Start up Module #2 -4 PDFs and Worksheets

Start up Module #3 -4 PDFs and Worksheets

Start up Module #4 -6 PDFs and Worksheets

Start up Module #5 -5 PDFs

Travel Contracts - 19 PDFs

Marketing Reports – 2 PDFs

Travel Resource Library -10 PDFs

Travel Software & Technology Providers – 16 PDFs

BONUS Offer #2 Each seminar enrollee will receive a free membership in the Travel Business Academy-Start up & Growth Program our home-study version of our live 1-day seminar. Online you can access the travel business start up resource library, the member forum area and all my marketing reports I’ve previously charged hundreds of dollars.

Are you ready?

I am only allowing 10 entrepreneurs at this semiar so I can make sure you get the one-on-one time you need, so reserve your spot now by making a deposit payment.

I process all my credit card payments through PayPal, so click the button below and you’ll be taken to PayPal where you can make your deposit payment. The cost of the 1-day Travel Business Academy-Live Semimar is $995. Make a $199 deposit now to reserve your spot.

Full payment is due by February 1st. I'll email you a PayPal invoice to pay the balance due. The $199 deposit is NON-refundable and reserves your spot. All final payments made after February 1st are also NON-refundable.

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