Travel Agents

Hi

I would like to know the following:

How to become ABTA/Atol approved?
How to start as an agent?
Are there any British legal issues involved?
Where does and How can I access flight information, hotel, car hire,
etc appear? Ie. is there a database I can download?
How can I gain contacts abroad?

My friend and I are considering setting up a service providing a one
stop travel solution.

Shuttle

You might want to take a look at how others are doing it first:) I'm
in the UK but use several different travel merchants that have their
own databases you can put on your own website (in a frame) like here>>
<a style='text-decoration: underline;' href="http://www.igoldhost.com/zara13" target="_blank">http://www.igoldhost.com/zara13</a>
or
<a style='text-decoration: underline;' href="http://www.steib.co.uk" target="_blank">http://www.steib.co.uk</a>
my other site.
Afraid I can't help with the licence, but I think a Company called
Dove Travel have a business start- up franchaise with licence at
around £2000 quid, not cheap seeing as the other is free & pay around
50% commission.There might be more UK based offers If you look around,
hope that helps
all the best
zara


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 > Hi
 >
 > I would like to know the following:
 >
 > How to become ABTA/Atol approved?
 > How to start as an agent?
 > Are there any British legal issues involved?
 > Where does and How can I access flight information, hotel, car hire,
 > etc appear? Ie. is there a database I can download?
 > How can I gain contacts abroad?
 >
 > My friend and I are considering setting up a service providing a one
 > stop travel solution.
 >
 > Shuttle<!-- ~MESSAGE_AFTER~ -->