ABOUT US

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Home based travel agents will sell over 50% of all leisure travel in the USA THIS YEAR!

We are a Home Based Travel Agent portal and Host Agency! HomeBasedTravelAgents.com (HBTA) is one of the PREMIER Host Agencies for the home based travel agent segment of our industry,

HBTA is a subsidiary of:

Internet Ventures Limited Investments, Inc. (IVLI)
1128 Royal Palm Beach Blvd., #471
Royal Palm Beach, Florida, 33411
Tel. 561-383-7486
Fax 561-383-7508
e-mail: ivli@ivli.com

The President of IVLI is Peter Coloyan, Sr., a 28 year travel industry veteran with nearly 10 years of online travel sales experience. IVLI owns over 2,100 travel related web sites and domain names, including weekly industry e-newsletters with over 685,000 readers.

HBTA has aligned itself with marketing partners from the following segments of our industry:

With 65% of all agents home based by 2005, and the awakening knowledge within the industry of the importance of the home based agent market, we believe our group of supplier partners will be amongst the best ever assembled at one place

Why will HomeBasedTravelAgents.com benefit consumers, agents and suppliers!

Our model is different than that of any travel service in the industry today! We are unique in that our primary function is to bring consumers together with the home based travel agent that most closely matches, and can therefore best service, by expertise and geographical proximity, the request of the consumer. And to provide that qualified lead to HBTA hosted travel agents AT NO CHARGE!

Our research has shown that consumers are FOUR TO FIVE TIMES MORE LIKELY to purchase from a home based agent located in the same general geographic area than from an agent outside that area.

We will educate the consumer on why it is not only "okay" or "safe" to purchase from a HBTA listed agent, but why home based travel agents, in general, will provide them benefits that traditional brick and mortar agents would be hard pressed to match.

Home based travel agent independent contractors and home agency location owners are more experienced, can provide more time and attention to a customer's needs, have considerably lower overhead resulting in very competitive pricing with mega agencies, they are easily contacted (they live at the office!) and they are the boss!

By providing the consumer with "experts" in the product, service, destination or supplier they are inquiring about and by incorporating geographic proximity to the consumer as a weighted criteria for the perfect match, we are creating FREE qualified leads that have closing ratios far beyond that of traditional print, radio, pay per click or pay per lead advertising. BETTER and FREE - home based travel agents have found their "Home"! Being hosted by HomeBasedTravelAgents.com has benefits no other host agency can match!

We also provide the consumer with travel information and offers provided by our partner suppliers. All requests for booking or further information by consumers are directed by email to our hosted HBTA agents.

Committed, qualified agents visiting our "Home" more often results in more exposure for suppliers, that, in turn, means more deals for consumers, which develops into more leads for agents, which…. means business!

HBTA is supplier-driven. This means that you, the HBTA hosted home based travel agent, receive FREE leads, generated by the marketing efforts put forth by HBTA, which, in turn, have been paid for by supplier advertising on HBTA.

We have made it very affordable for suppliers to reach our entire agent subscriber base AND our consumer subscriber base. But, we require that ALL business generated from any advertising on our website be directed to our registered home based travel agents!

HBTA allows suppliers to show their support for you, the home based travel agents, as an industry - something they could never possibly do for everyone on an individual basis!