For experienced travel professionals
Now build the business your way.
You’ve already built the experience.
If you’ve worked in travel for years, you don’t need us to teach you how to sell a holiday. Our experienced Travel Partner route is for travel consultants, existing homeworkers and self-employed travel professionals who want to take what they’ve already built and make more of it.
Auria Travel Partners are self-employed. There is no fixed minimum number of years in travel: every application is assessed individually. And the commercial terms are published below, in plain numbers.
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You probably know what frustrates you about homeworking
- Being told which suppliers you can sell.
- Having your margin dictated to you.
- Source fees eating into a booking.
- Being unable to dynamically package the itinerary your customer actually wants.
- Or simply feeling like one name among hundreds.
We built Auria Travel Partners differently. Not because the established way of doing things is necessarily wrong, but because we knew there was room for another way: a more personal one, a more flexible one, and one designed for experienced travel professionals who want to be trusted to sell travel properly.
More freedom. Less friction.
You know how to sell travel. Our job isn’t to teach you what you already know. It’s to give you the infrastructure, supplier relationships, technology, commercial model, marketing and support that help you do more with that experience.
Sell far beyond the obvious
Package holidays absolutely have their place. But when your customer wants something more individual, you should be able to create it. Access major tour operators, specialist suppliers, cruise lines, DMCs and dynamic packaging to build everything from a straightforward European break to a complex worldwide itinerary.
Your customer. Your recommendation.
We don’t want commercial restrictions deciding what you recommend. We believe the right holiday should win.
Commercial transparency
You should understand exactly how your money is made and exactly what you’re paying for: a clear commission structure, no forced source fees or hidden mark-ups, and the commercials discussed openly before you join.
Support without being smothered
You don’t need somebody looking over your shoulder every five minutes. But when you need help with a tricky itinerary, a commercial question, a system issue or a business challenge, having somebody knowledgeable at the other end of the phone matters.
The commercials, in plain numbers
No smoke, no mirrors. These are the terms Auria Travel Partners work on.
| Annual sales | Commission split (you / Auria) |
|---|---|
| Under £1 million | 70/30 |
| £1 million to under £2 million | 75/25 |
| £2 million and above | 80/20 |
- When commission is paid
- Typically around six weeks before your customer travels
- Travel Partner licence
- £65 + VAT per month
- Leaving
- 30 days’ notice. There is no long tie-in period
- After you leave
- Any commission you have already earned will still be paid
- Source fees
- None forced on you, and no hidden mark-ups
- Margin
- Flexibility over the margin on what you build
Commission is calculated by our own automated commission system. It applies your agreed rate using data from our consortium partners and suppliers, produces your statements and, where applicable, self-billing invoices, and shows what has been paid and what is expected from future bookings.
Some tools and services are optional and cost extra. They are listed below, so nothing arrives as a surprise.
Auria Travel is an ABTA member (P8884) and holds ATOL licence 12791. More on our Financial Protection page.
Take these terms away in the Experienced Travel Partner Guide
Last reviewed 6 October 2026.
The tools behind your business
The technology and support you would expect, described plainly, with anything that costs extra labelled as such.
Included
- Reservations and booking technology
- Agency software for quoting, booking and managing your customers’ travel, with dynamic packaging capability.
- Auria Travel email
- A professional Auria Travel email address.
- Your own phone number
- A business phone line with app-based access.
- Marketing support
- Ready-made social media and marketing assets, and campaign support.
- Commission system
- Automated calculation, statements and a view of commission still to come.
- Training and events
- Regular supplier training, webinars and supplier events, and access to fam trips, allocated fairly.
Optional, at additional cost
- Travel CRM software
- A customer relationship management system for your client database.
- Marketing management software
- A tool for posting ready-made offers to your customers through social media.
- A laptop
- Can be included in your package.
- CLIA membership
- For Travel Partners who want cruise industry membership.
- Your brand
Your business doesn’t have to look like ours
Unless you want it to.
When you’ve already built relationships with customers, your identity matters. You can build under Auria Travel, Cruise Luxe, your own identity, or a mixture that suits your business. So if you’ve created an identity and a customer following you’re proud of, joining Auria doesn’t have to mean leaving it behind.
Already a homeworker?
If you’ve found yourself wondering whether there’s something better out there, we’d love to hear what you’re looking for. It might be more supplier freedom, better dynamic packaging capability, a more personal relationship, better marketing support, greater commercial transparency, the ability to specialise, or simply somewhere you feel more valued.
We’re not going to tell you everything somewhere else is doing wrong. We’d rather show you what we’re doing differently. Then you can decide.
Small by choice. Ambitious by nature.
We’re building Auria Travel carefully. We don’t aspire to have hundreds or thousands of Travel Partners who barely know the people running the business.
We want a strong community of ambitious independent Travel Partners with different niches, different customers and different goals. And we want our success to grow because theirs does.
“Working from home since 2001 means I’m available when it suits you, days, evenings, weekends, because great service matters.”
Andrea Hill, Auria Travel Partner, Rugeley, Staffordshire
Andrea Hill has worked in travel for more than 30 years.
Questions experienced travel agents ask
Is there a minimum amount of travel experience?
No. There is no fixed minimum number of months or years. Applications for the experienced Travel Partner route are assessed individually, on your experience, your customers and what you want to build.
What is the commission split, and when is it paid?
Commission starts at 70/30 in your favour. It is 70/30 on annual sales under £1 million, 75/25 from £1 million to under £2 million, and 80/20 at £2 million and above. Commission is typically paid around six weeks before your customer travels.
What does it cost to be an Auria Travel Partner?
The Travel Partner licence fee is £65 + VAT per month. Some tools are optional and cost extra, such as travel CRM software, marketing management software, a laptop and CLIA membership. We explain every cost before you join.
Is there a tie-in or notice period?
There is no long tie-in period. If you decide to leave, the contract asks for 30 days’ notice. Any commission you have already earned will still be paid after you leave.
Do I need an existing client base?
It helps, but there is no fixed requirement. Applications are assessed individually, and we will want to talk about the customers you have now or your plan to build them. Travel Partners build their own customer relationships.
I’m with another homeworking company. Can I move to Auria?
Yes. Travel homeworkers currently with another company can apply to move to Auria Travel. What happens to your existing customers and forward bookings depends on your current agreement, so it is one of the first things we talk through with you.
Can I keep trading under my own brand?
Yes. Travel Partners can build under Auria Travel, Cruise Luxe, their own identity, or a mixture that suits their business. How your own brand would work in practice is something we go through with you; more on brand choice is on the main page.
Want the detail?
If you’ve already done enough research and would rather talk human to human, arrange an informal conversation.
There won’t be a sales pitch. We’d much rather hear about your business first.
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Tell us a little about you and your business, and we’ll be in touch.
