You bring the traveler. We bring everything else.
Velaris gives you the hotels, the transfers, the guides and the prices, all in one place, ready to quote. You put the trip together and sell it.
Selling a trip is hard for five reasons. We solve four.
Finding clients is hard, and that one is on you. It's also the part you already have.
Building an itinerary isn't hard anymore. AI writes one in seconds. Making it accurate is a different problem: whether the flight lands in time for the lodge pickup, whether that connection exists, whether the season works. An itinerary that reads beautifully and doesn't hold up is worse than none.
Then comes quoting, which in luxury is its own world. A two-week trip in Chile has eight or ten suppliers behind it: lodges, transfers, guides, wineries, restaurants. Each one is an email or a WhatsApp and a wait. Three days later you have most of the answers, one supplier still hasn't replied, and your client has moved on.
Then getting paid, and paying everyone else. Collecting from a traveler abroad, in their currency, then splitting that across ten suppliers in another one.
And then operating it. If you get that far, that's where the real problems start.
That's why almost nobody sells these trips, even when they have the people who'd buy one.
Four steps
Someone asks you about a trip
A friend, a client, a guest, someone in your network. Two weeks in Chile in October, four people, they want Patagonia.
You put the trip together
You open Velaris and the suppliers are already there, with real prices and real availability. You pick the lodge, add the transfers, add the excursions. It takes minutes. You go back and forth with your client over a quick conversation, then send them a beautiful itinerary with your name on it. Not ours. We like our name, but your client probably won't care about it 😊 And you don't have to know the logistics: the system checks whether the flight lands in time for the lodge pickup, whether that connection is possible, whether the season works.
They say yes
Your client pays a deposit and the trip is locked in. You're not chasing the full amount up front, and you're not moving money around between ten suppliers. That's on us.
We run it
Every booking confirmed, every supplier paid, someone watching the trip while it happens. If a flight gets cancelled at six in the morning, that's our call to make, not yours.
The part that usually stops people
- You don't need an agency behind you.
- You don't need contracts with hotels or suppliers.
- You don't need to know how to build a trip. The manual teaches you, and the system checks your work.
- You don't handle the money, the invoices or the payments to suppliers.
- You don't have to be awake when something goes wrong in Patagonia.
What you do need: people who trust you enough to ask where they should go.
Your traveler doesn't pay extra
This is the part most people get wrong.
Your commission comes from the hotels and the suppliers, not from your client. It's already built into the price they'd pay booking on their own. So your traveler pays the same as if they'd done all the work themselves, and gets a trip put together by someone who knows what they're doing.
You earn 10% of the trip. Same for everyone, whatever you sell and however much. Flights aren't included, and if you're a hotel or an operator selling your own product, you don't pay commission on that.
Paid once the trip is completed, so nobody is settling up on a trip that later moves or changes.
Who this is for
You already sell travel.
Agents, call centers, tour operators. You know how to close. What slows you down is waiting on quotes.
You organize trips for people you know.
A company offsite, a family trip, a club, an alumni group. You've done it over WhatsApp for weeks. Same work, without the weeks, and this time you get paid for it.
You have a hotel or an activity.
Your guests already come to you. Today you send them elsewhere for the rest of their trip. Now you can put the whole thing together yourself.
People ask you where to go.
You travel, you have an audience, or you're just the person your friends call. That's the hardest part of this business, and you already have it.
Questions
- Do I need experience?
- No. Most people who do this well started with no travel background. We give you a manual that teaches you the destinations, the logistics and how to quote. If you're not convinced: the fastest-growing travel agency in the United States built a network of 15,000 advisors, and 97% of them had never sold travel before.
- How long does it take to learn?
- You can send your first quote the same week. Start with the manual. It's free.
- Whose name does the traveler see?
- Yours. Velaris never appears in front of your client.
- What if something goes wrong during the trip?
- We handle it. Someone is watching the trip while it runs, and there are people on the ground in destination. You talk to your traveler. We make the calls.
- Do I have to sell a certain amount?
- No. No minimums, no fees, no exclusivity. Sell one trip a year or one a week.
- Which destinations can I sell?
- Chile: Patagonia, Santiago, the wine valleys, Atacama and Rapa Nui. Argentina and Peru next. Antarctica on the horizon.
- What's ready right now?
- Suppliers are loaded and itinerary building is live. Confirmations are automated. Payments are the last piece we're finishing, so for now we handle collection and supplier payouts ourselves, trip by trip. It works, it's just not self-service yet.
Start with the manual.
It's free, it's the whole thing, and it teaches you how this works: the destinations, how a trip is put together, how to quote it, and how to sell it.
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