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Have you ever considered the possibility of setting up your own online travel agency? What requirements do I need? This post offers tips to help you open your own tourism business.

And we will give you all the keys to make this possible. When creating an online travel agency, you must remember that you will need all the legal requirements to open a travel agency to which you will have to add the launch of a website. So, if you like, let’s start breaking down all these aspects:

Legal requirements to open an online travel agency

1. According to European directives, anyone can sell tourist services without having a titleto prove it.
2. It would help if you looked at the Travel Agencies Law of the corresponding Autonomous Community. Tourism is a matter transferredfrom the State to the Autonomous Governments.
3. You must notify the General Directorate of Tourism of your Autonomous Community in order to sell tourist packages online.

Now, you must decide whether to establish yourself as self-employed or create a company. We will analyze the two cases step by step.

Create an online travel agency as a freelancer.

What you should keep in mind is:

1. Census declaration. You have to present form 036to the Treasury.
2. Registration and affiliation in the self-employed regime, where you will have to present the following:

• Membership document
• Healthcare discharge report
• In quadruplicate, a contribution registration report
• Photocopy of Registration at the IAE
• Photocopy of the NIF
• CIF if it is a company and if you are registered in a professional association, corresponding certificate.

You have 30 calendar days from the beginning of the registration to present all this documentation to the corresponding General Treasury of Social Security.

1. Request for the Guest Book, mandatory for both companies and self-employed workers.
2. Request for the employer’s numberif you hire a worker.
3. Communication of Opening of the Work Center.

A website for your online travel agency

Once we have seen the legal requirements, which are always important and necessary, we move on to the second, no less important point, which is creating a website from which you can offer your services to clients.

There are many platforms that can help you in this regard, with a wide range of sales, customer, reservation, and collection management tools. The software you need to create your website is not simple and requires a precise language system such as XML.

The software you hire has to be capable of developing integrations with tourism service providers so that you can sell tourist packages to your clients online. One platform that offers all these services is Dispongo Cloud, which, in addition to these integrations that we have just referred to, is very oriented towards positioning, that is, ensuring that your website occupies the first position in the Search results. By occupying these positions, you will have more visits and, therefore, greater chances of achieving sales.

Other things that you should take into account when creating your online travel agency website are:

• The design must always be attractive and elegant. The lines and colors must be clear and provide navigation.
• The navigation must be very simple so that a customer never does not know where to click to go to the shopping cart and, therefore, place the order.
• Positioning. There are several strategies for positioning a web page. One of them may be natural positioning or SEO through a content creation strategy, SEM, or paid strategy. The most common is the creation of Google Adwords campaigns to attract visits quickly and convert them into sales.
• Customer service. Don’t think that just because you have a website you shouldn’t take care of customer service by incorporating the appropriate channels such as email, chat, telephone…
• The product. Of course, you have to select the products you will launch online. Before that, you will indeed have done a market study. Each product must have unique and exclusive content. In each product sheet, you have to enter the title, H1 and meta description, in addition to putting images and videos that explain your product.

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