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Why choose Freedom Travel?
The Freedom Travel Agents Group is an organization of independent travel agents working together to secure a profitable future. Many travel agents believe that in order to thrive and prosper, it is vital to become part of a larger buying group.
The Freedom Travel Agents Group is well placed to offer this opportunity, with superior benefits, but without the politics and unnecessary burden of an expensive management structure. The group is a division of the Co operative Travel, one of the largest and most profitable independent travel distributors in the UK. It was formed to enable travel agents to become part of a larger buying group benefitting from better base commissions, overrides, lower operating costs, lower bank charges and better technology.
The Freedom Travel Agents Group is a commercial operation and like all commercial enterprises, we aim to make a profit from the services we supply, but we can only do this by offering you a financial advantage and other benefits that are not available elsewhere.
There are no application fees, processing fees or annual membership charges – just a monthly management service charge of 10% of your net commission. You can run your own commission reports at any time to confirm that the figures agree. Payment of commission is guaranteed within 15 days of each month end
The Co operative Travel is the largest independent travel distributor in the UK, transacting over £1.5billion worth of travel. As such we have access to the best commercial terms in the marketplace.
As well as great commercial terms we have access to stock, and account for a very high share of business for all of the key suppliers in the UK, thus making our partnership key to them. As direct sales via the web become more widespread, this factor is key to all of our success.
In addition to industry leading commissions you would enjoy year round staff incentives and fabulous (often exclusive) consumer campaigns.
As well as traditional tour operating stock you will have access to travel insurance products, low cost flight options, in house cruise dynamic packaging product as well as an extensive supported tour operator list
Reduction in administration and overheads
You will want to concentrate on marketing and selling as many holidays as possible, whilst at the same time maintaining a good level of quality service to clients. We recognise that efficient administration costs money and time and due to our centralised payment system, you will enjoy huge savings, and should be able to reduce your administration headcount significantly.
Save on bank charges
You will benefit from a substantial reduction in bank charges that would normally apply in respect of payments to your chosen travel suppliers
By becoming a member of the Freedom Travel Group you will become a member agent of ABTA, without the need to pay for bonding or membership fees. You simply fill in an ABTA registration form as part of your application process and we will do the rest of the work for you.
This membership allows you to display the widely recognised ABTA logo in your premises or on your website and on all of your correspondence with your customers. You will be issued with your unique Freedom ABTA number once your application is fully processed. If you already have an ABTA number it may be possible to transfer this ABTA number to your Freedom membership.
The growth in independent travel is widely documented and the Freedom Travel Group recognise this as an important and profitable marketplace, plus it gives our members a point of difference. As such, Freedom members have access to our ATOL facility which allows you to package flights and other travel components whilst complying with the Package holiday directive.
All of the Freedom Travel group technology products are provided by Vertical Systems, the leading travel technology provider. This will include a front and back office system with limited up front financial commitment, all charges are made via your monthly commission statements. All that is required is a clean ADSL line. A full technical specification is included in the application pack and the training team are happy to talk you through the system benefits at any stage during your application process.