As a parent, you deserve a career that’s flexible, lucrative, and fulfilling. Travel advising checks all those boxes.
Travel advisors determine their own schedule. They aren’t held to sales quotas or other rigid metrics, and they can work from anywhere, while having unlimited earning potential. Here’s why being a travel advisor is the best remote job for stay-at-home parents, working parents seeking additional income, and caregivers with unpredictable schedules.
1. Complete schedule and work-load control
Parents need work that adapts to both the predictable and unpredictable parts of their schedules. Most part-time jobs for parents still demand fixed hours or meetings that conflict with school pickup, family time, and unexpected sick days or school events.
The beauty of being an independent travel agent lies in complete schedule freedom. There are no required office hours or fixed schedules, no mandatory meetings or webinars to attend. You can work early mornings before kids wake up, during nap time or quiet time, in the evenings after bedtime, or during school hours if your kids are a bit older.
“With a full-time corporate job, two kiddos, and running a household, my daily routine requires both consistency and flexibility,” Fora Advisor Nadiah Ford said. “Fora gives me the flexibility to work whenever and however I want—whether that be 5 a.m., Sunday afternoons, between corporate meetings or school drop-offs, or late into the evening.”
Additionally, as a Fora travel advisor, you won’t have any sales quotas or performance pressure. You get paid based on the travel you book, allowing you to work more or less based on your parenting load at any given time.
2. Parent-friendly skill requirements
If you're like most parents, you're already booking family vacation rentals, planning trips for extended family, organizing group travel for sports teams, and coordinating playdates and family activities. The difference is, now you can get paid for these natural organizational skills.
Commission-based earning means you’ll earn a percentage of each booking from hotels and other suppliers, but clients won’t pay any more than if they’d booked themselves.
As a Fora Advisor, you can earn commission on:
Group bookings for sports team tournaments
Family reunions
Friend trips
Destination weddings
Graduation trips
Anniversary getaways
3. Self-paced online learning
To become a Fora travel advisor, you won’t need to go back to school or spend months or years training instead of earning.
All of Fora’s training materials are available 24/7, so you can watch recordings at your convenience, pause and resume anytime, and learn on the go with Fora’s mobile-friendly platform. While Fora also has live training sessions, they are completely optional.
You can learn basic booking skills in just two to three weeks. If you prefer to go deeper, advanced specializations are available on an ongoing basis. Many advisors choose to focus on specific niches like particular travel types or destinations, while others prefer to become generalists. Either way, our training sets you up for success.
Fora’s training program teaches you everything you need to know about:
Travel industry basics and terminology
Booking systems
Supplier relationships
Client consultation and trip planning
Commission structures and payments
Marketing strategies
Specialization opportunities
Group-booking management
Crisis management and travel insurance
4. Business-building resources
As a host agency, Fora provides our advisors with key support services that they need to grow their businesses, which is especially useful for busy parents. While you focus on booking travel, Fora takes care of:
Marketing strategy: Fora provides social media templates, pre-written shareable content designed to drive bookings, newsletter templates, a professional landing page, and ongoing content-generation opportunities.
Tech, record-keeping, and administrative systems: Fora’s all-in-one platform includes mobile booking capabilities, integrated client-management systems, commission tracking and reporting, and around-the-clock support.
Payments and invoices: The travel advising industry runs on a commission-based earning model, where hotels, tour groups, and other travel companies pay host agencies for their advisors’ bookings. So Fora handles collecting and distributing your earnings. This transparent business model, coupled with Fora’s comprehensive financial systems, means you can get paid what you’re owed.
5. Community that understands the parent life
Many Fora Advisors—and many people who work at Fora’s corporate office—are parents. We get what it takes to run a successful business on your terms, and we design tools to help. When you join, you’ll get access to Fora’s active community app Forum. It’s our advisors’ go-to place for advice and support, sharing feedback, organizing local meet-ups, and learning the latest travel industry news.
Fora also has numerous in-person opportunities for connection, including local meet-ups, industry and networking events, and workshops. We even have Fora Summer Camp, where advisors and their families travel somewhere together to build community and have fun. Advisors sharpen their business skills while their partners and kids get to experience some of our favorite properties around the world.
6. It’s easy to get started as a Fora Advisor
Step 1: Apply to join Fora
Fill out our online application, and our team will be in touch with next steps.
Step 2: Complete onboarding
Set up your advisor profile, gain access to training materials and Fora’s platform, and connect with the advisor community.
Step 3: Begin training
Complete foundational modules whenever convenient for your schedule, see how our booking platform works, participate in optional live sessions or watch recordings later, and connect with other parent advisors for ongoing support and encouragement.
Step 4: Start booking
Begin with friends and family to build confidence, learn client-consultation and trip-planning skills, complete your first commissionable reservations, and start developing your preferred specializations.
Step 5: Scale your business
Develop your marketing strategy using Fora's templates, build repeat client relationships for steady income, and gradually increase your booking volume and earnings.
Frequently asked questions from parents
Do I need childcare to be a travel advisor?
No, outside childcare isn’t essential. Most work can be done during nap time, after bedtime, or while kids are occupied. Client calls can be scheduled around your family's needs, and many communications happen via text/email.
What if I don't have travel industry experience?
Fora's training includes everything you need to know as a complete beginner. Many successful advisors started as enthusiastic travelers rather than industry professionals. Passion and willingness to learn matter more than experience.
How do I find clients as a busy parent?
Start with your existing network: other parents, family, friends, neighbors. Parent groups, sports teams, and school communities are natural client sources. Many successful advisors built their businesses entirely through word-of-mouth referrals.
