UK host agency & homeworking directory

Independent No paid listings Compiled from published sources

The directory

UK host agencies and homeworking networks, compared

If you want to sell holidays from home in the UK, you’ll usually join one of three kinds of company: a franchise, a commission-split host, or a membership consortium. A few sit outside those three.

This directory records what each of the 42 companies below charges, what share of commission you keep, and how customers’ money is protected. There’s a source and a date against every figure.

We’re not a host agency and we don’t recruit agents. Nobody listed here has paid to be included, and the order on this page is simply alphabetical within each model type. Where a company doesn’t publish a figure we say Not published rather than guess.

Compare all 42 companies in one sortable table — joining cost, monthly fee, commission split, protection and whether newcomers are accepted.

Guides

If you are still working out how any of this fits together

The guides cover the parts a table cannot: what the arrangements mean, what the money really looks like, and what to ask before you sign.

All 7 guides · 8 head-to-head comparisons

All companies by model

5 listed

Franchises

You buy the right to trade under the brand. Expect an upfront fee, ongoing fees, and a defined commission share.

28 listed

Commission-split hosts

You work self-employed under the host’s licences and bonding, and keep an agreed share of the commission you earn.

2 listed

Consortia and membership platforms

You join as a member and usually trade in your own name, paying fees rather than giving up a share of commission.

  • Protected Trust Services Joining £999+VAT per TG#108; PTS’s own site mentions no joining fee — sources conflict, unverified · keeps 100% · ATOL · Trust account
  • Travel Trust Association Joining On enquiry · keeps 100% (members keep all commission and pay fees) · Trust account
5 listed

Hybrid and mixed models

The company mixes models, so its fees and commission terms may not line up neatly with a straight commission split.

1 listed

Sub-affiliates

You join through a smaller company that itself sits inside a larger network, and trade under that network’s licences.

  • Warton Travel Joining £156 · keeps 70% to £3,500 of earnings, then 80% · ABTA · ATOL
1 listed

Employed homeworking

This is an employed, salaried role worked from home rather than a host agency you pay to join.