How do I become a private travel consultant?

Are there opportunities to become a consultant for people/ groups that travel to China?

• I've traveled to China on two occasions and thought it would be worthwhile to go into consultanting for people/ groups. Appreciate websites dealing with this questions.

• Answer:

  Unless you live in the PRC on a full-time basis and have extensive knowledge of the tourism industry here, I would suggest you not even think about it. Unless you have Chinese partners who will do all the scut work, such as translation, ticket-booking, itinerary planning, hotel-booking, and so on, you'd face many hassles. ANd let's not forget the myriad rules and regulations the CHinese government has in place regarding everything. Quanxi makes for a successful business in CHina. It doesn;t look like you'd have much of that, based upon only two occassions travelling to CHina.