Agency One Travel Club outlines aim to grow to 500 homeworkers

One Travel Club has launched a renewed recruitment drive to expand to 500 homeworkers after developing a cruise division, consumer app, quote system and holiday essentials website.

The two-year-old company had hoped to reach 300 homeworkers last year but reined back recruitment to focus instead on developing its support structure. It currently has 140 agents.

The group, which carried more than 10,000 passengers last year, says it is now ready to scale up significantly. Its target of 500 by the end of 2025 includes 150 agents in its new One Cruise Club division.

Lee Evans, operations and technology director, said: “We wanted to make sure when someone joined they had everything they needed to succeed. Now we’ve done that, it’s the right time to ramp up recruitment.”

The company, which gives homeworkers net rates to encourage them to self-package, is looking for experienced and new-to-travel agents.

“We have agents hitting half a million pounds in revenue quickly,” said Evans. “And even if you don’t have travel experience, it doesn’t mean you can’t achieve that.”

As well as a print and online recruitment campaign, business development manager Remi Creed said the group planned to host roadshows “targeted in areas where we don’t have homeworkers”.

One Cruise Club is offering training, including how to package cruises with land stays and flights.

The group’s newly launched ‘Smart Quote’ system aims to speed up the time it takes agents to produce quotes. It gathers prices and images from suppliers into one email, with a payment link, and allows the group to track conversion rates.

“It takes out a lot of the manual work and is an easy and quicker way to create quotes,” said Evans.

The group has also developed a consumer app, called One Travel Pass, due to go live this summer, to feed additional sales leads to agents.

Finance director Greg Barratt said: “Consumers will be allocated their nearest travel concierge automatically. It will help conversions, it’s something the industry has not seen yet.”

The firm has also created a website, didweget.com, due to launch in the coming weeks, for consumers to order holiday items such as sun cream and suitcases. Homeworkers will earn commission on sales to clients.