Dream Vacations Advisor

I returned from Israel and Greece in August of 2022, and asked myself... "How big do you dare to dream?" I am a single mom staring a future college student in the face every morning over coffee and a long commute into the city. How am I going to do it all? I started researching jobs in travel. After vetting many companies, I really clicked with Dream Vacations. The process to connect with a Franchise Owner as a mentor was smooth, honest, and supportive. She is AMAZING, available, and is willing to teach me how to be successful. What I wasn't prepared for is how unbelievable all the Dream Vacation resources are to train. The training materials are easy to comprehend and so deep. I immediately realized this is a journey and not a sprint to the bank with a commission check. Once I started my self-paced training, I was hooked because I could sense my own potential. I realized how lucky I am to have found my second career. I work part time as a travel advisor and have spent the last 10 months learning, developing my business plan, doing trade and bridal shows, talking to as many people as I can about my business. It's not the easiest thing I have ever tried to master but I wake up every morning excited and committed to my future as a Dream Vacations Travel Advisor. If you are looking for something bigger than a paycheck, a supportive network of peers, a company with training resources to make you successful, website tools, marketing tools, endless opportunities to connect with other advisors and leaders in the travel industry, you have found it in Dream Vacations.
Can I just say I don't have a "bucket list" anymore. The "bucket list" has a finality attached to it and feels like a dream list that some people only wish they could do once. I now have a "Live Life List"... and man is it long! My commission checks are covering the cost of my adventures for now. I plan to flip my life completely once my son is out of college. So now I learn, book, repeat. Thanks Dream Vacations!

I am a new Cruiseone/Dream Vacations Advisor!! I started in December of 2022. My wife encouraged me to become a travel advisor. Her and I both love to travel and I love learning about all the different places to go.
I just want to experience life and being a Travel Advisor for Cruiseone/Dream Vacations gives me that ability!
I plan on doing this for a long time!! I want to help people make memories with their family and friends!!
I feel this company continues to give me the tools that I need to be successful. I have a great mentor in Bob Haupt. He has over 25 years of experience and he is willing to teach. I love this company and being apart of a great group of individuals that have the same passion as I do!!
HappyCruising!!!

As a teacher wanted a way to supplement my income as well as experience the travel at a discounted way, plus I enjoy connecting individuals with new travel experiences. Dream Vacations Advisor program has been absolutely perfect for me and has met all of my expectations and more. My Host Owner Agency Tonya Wogoman has been a gracious host and is available to assist me any way that she can. The training and resources that Dream Vacation provides makes being an Advisor FUN!!

I feel so fortunate to be a part of Dream Vacations and all the training and tools provided to new associates. I feel so supported to succeed especially with the new and improved websites, Uplift, marketing ideas, Constant Contact & and other business building tools. You must be a self starter because there is a lot of training, learning about destinations, and getting credentials for all the vetted suppliers.

I have lived and worked on 3 different continents and travel has always been near and dear to my heart. While I work part-time from home, having an option to supplement my income working for Dream Vacations (with the goal of going full time) was an opportunity too good to be true. It is a warm, supportive and highly motivated company. From my first conversation with Terri in Recruitment to my eventual ‘home’ with my franchise owner Fawn Brickman at Driftless Travel, it was a seamless and effortless journey.

The required onboard training gives you the basic tools needed to get up and running and you can build on this with a library of resources for additional training and development and support from a knowledgeable franchise owner.

I would not hesitate in making the leap with Dream Vacations if a career in travel is right for you!

I am a stay-at-home mom with 3 kids. I've always wanted to start my own business. I have been planning my family's vacations and camping trips with friends and family for years. I get very excited when planning a vacation. Recently, we planned to go on a cruise and booked our cruise with one of the Dream Vacations' advisor. I was able to make a group of 8 families within a week and everyone told me I could be a good travel advisor.

That's when I started researching about how to become a Travel Advisor and Dream Vacation Travel Advisor Associate program provided me this opportunity. Right now, I am an Associate under Susan Peyer. She is not only my franchise owner but also a wonderful mentor helping me with my queries and motivating me at every step. Dream Vacations is a great platform if you want to be a travel advisor. Great training that is very easy to understand. 

Good luck to all the future travel advisors out there!

Ancy D'Souza

I have always loved cruising and had thought of becoming a Travel Advisor for years. I researched so many host agencies and there was always something that just didn't sit right with me until I found Dream Vacations. My first contact was with Terri, the Recruitment Sales Manager. She answered every question I had (and there were many!) and showed me that my dream of helping people see the value and fun in cruising was within reach. After a very simple signup process I was paired with a franchise, Sea 2 Shore Vacations. I can not express enough how lucky I am to have been paired with Yolande and Tammy, the owners of Sea 2 Shore Vacations. After my very first call with them I felt like I was part of a family. They are so passionate about what they do and that passion is contagious!
The initial training process was simple and I began selling cruises on a part time basis in April 2022. The support offered is there from Dream Vacations and Sea 2 Shore Vacations regardless of how much or little I am selling (I have booked 12 cruises in less than a year.).
The are so many training opportunities and their marketing support is amazing.
I am so glad I finally made the leap and joined Dream Vacations!

I made the decision in early 2022 to turn my love of travel into a career, but made the very common mistake of joining an agency that became an obvious MLM organization. While searching for another home-based travel agency I stumbled upon Dream Vacations (World Travel Holdings) and learned that they were offering advisor positions. I sat through the initial webinar, and by the time that webinar was over, I knew that I had found my new travel agency home. I set up an interview with a recruited, spoke with her, she was very knowledgeable and took the time to answer each and every one of the questions that I had. I made my initial payment (more on this soon) and couldn't wait for my background check to be completed so I could get started on my training and start working with my new travel family!

I don't use the word family lightly, but that is exactly what my franchise owners have developed here. We cheer for each other's successes, and we offer whatever help we can to each other when someone reaches out for advice. I am beyond happy with World Travel Holdings, Dream Vacations, and Sea2Shore Vacation. Yolande and Tammy are franchise owners that I hope to emulate whenever I decide to enter the world of franchise owners. They are extraordinarily helpful, informative, motivating, patient, and kind.

I mentioned the fee that I paid when joining up as an advisor with Dream Vacations. NO ONE should feel any trepidation about this monthly fee. With the MLM organization, I was paying almost twice what I am paying with Dream Vacations, and get FAR more. A working website, with actual, real, information, a professional email address, trainings both with Dream Vacations as well as through the vendors directly, a full scale booking engine to enter bookings, do research, set reminders, invoice, and much more. These are just a sample of what you get for your monthly fee and I assure you, it is incredibly worth it!

I hope this review was helpful, if you are interested in being a home-based travel advisor, I highly recommend Dream Vacations.

Dream Vacations has been an excellent hybrid option for me. I work full-time, but love travel. Having lived overseas and been to almost 50 countries, the allure of being an agent was too great! I wanted access to better prices for travel, and to get paid for all the travel I was already booking for people.

The training was simple, and I was off to the races. So far I have booked 16 trips since last summer, all of them land bookings. It has been an absolute blast and my franchise owner is a rockstar.

A couple of notes. 1. don't think you will get rich doing this. Most vacations outside of cruises and all-inclusive pay very little. Which is ok, but I don't think I fully understood it. 2. Dream Vacations takes royalties, then your franchise takes some (obviously) and then you get the leftover. Again, this makes sense, but I didn't fully understand how much they would take. On some of the smaller bookings where you only make $100 in commission, that doesn't leave a whole lot left over for you. Just something to be aware of. 3. Dream Vacations values cruises over all else. Many of the suppliers I work with my amazing Franchise owner helped me with as Dream vacations did very little with them. Many times we have had to go to the drawing board on things to figure out how to make it work as most training is only about cruises. My strong suit is land travel as that is what I have done the most of, so that is what I sell. It is obviously entirely possible, but something to know. Lastly, the discounts weren't as epic as I had built up in my head :) Through Dream vacations I was able to get my CLIA certification which gets me access to certain discounts, but otherwise you aren't allowed to book through most of the preferred suppliers for yourself (even if you don't make commission) and the discounts you always see people rave about aren't actually that common. Again, just something that is useful to know going into it.

Overall, this is an incredible program with a lot of room for growth. I am now certified to sell Disney and Marriott, have the ability to help people plan a detailed trip, and am constantly gaining new knowledge. I am very grateful and will be here for many years to come! If you love travel, you love to book it, and want to make some extra money, this is a great option.

I have been planning my family's vacations for years and my kids always told me I should be a Travel Advisor. Last year I started to research the possibility and that's when I saw an ad to become an Advisor with Dream Vacations. I interviewed with another company but felt that Dream Vacations was a better fit for me and how I like doing business. I am so glad I chose this company. From the beautiful website and marketing they do to the back-end support they give and learning opportunities, I couldn't have picked a better company to associate myself with. The support staff they have in all departments is amazing. They want to see you succeed as much as you want to.