u/WalBec_

I sign up and took FORA's trainings to get started as a travel advisor in 2025, to help people with Italian travel as we run rentals there and live in summer on the Tuscan coast , to help friends and family as I was already assisting friends with recommendations for Italy travel. It was a struggle of a year, as I spent the time on the FORA forum assisting advisors with Italian travel as well immersing in their community with no clients. Friends and family did not need my support, as they either have their TA, or are booking themselves. I was given one lead who went on to find better deals. A family member who uses a TA said to try to go work with an existing travel agency. Does anyone have any experience getting started with a host company and running your own business in the first year, or should I have been patient and persisted with FORA and just kept trying? is another host company better for helping create a business plan or model? Is it a dead end for folks with a specific niche?