Race Across the World winner Alfie Watts has become the latest celebrity to launch his own business with InteleTravel.
The ex-PE teacher, who now describes himself as a ‘travelpreneur’, has also joined PlanNet marketing as a recruiter for InteleTravel.
He told his 50,000 TikTok followers in a video, which has been watched 23,000 times: “I now want to give back and I want to give you the opportunity to live your dreams in the travel world.”
Alfie told social media viewers he has ‘spent the past month working so hard to finally release this opportunity’, describing InteleTravel as ‘one of the biggest travel movements in modern history’.
The RATW Series 4 winner, who has also been working with numerous charities since the BBC programme aired last year, added: “I am not joking, we are taking over the world.”
He invited his TikTok viewers to sign up to a Zoom call, during which he told them he was looking to build ‘a little bit of a travel dynasty’.
Alfie, who won viewers’ hearts during RATW when he described how he’d been affected by losing his mum at an early age, said: “Travelling for me was always inaccessible, I didn’t now there was the time, I didn’t know there was the money.”
Since signing up to RATW, he has visited 65 countries, and said that travelling has made him ‘grow up’ and become more confident. In his recruitment video, he said: “The reason I am doing this is that I don’t want access to be a barrier to entry to anyone else. I am doing this to give back.”
Alfie, who also has 12,000 followers on Facebook and 77,000 on Instagram, urged anyone interested in joining his ‘launch team’ to WhatsApp him ‘within 24 hours’.
“I want to build a team of people who will be involved in everything I do,” he said, adding; “We are really looking at filling this launch team very very quickly.”
So far, he said ‘quite a few’ people have expressed an interest in joining his team, but none of the ‘fewer than 100’ who joined his Zoom call has signed up yet.
Describing his business as a ‘no brainer’ for anyone who loves travelling, Alfie said he will be supporting his team with four ‘fully funded’ meet ups across the UK next year. “Trust me I would not be advertising something to my platform if I didn’t believe in it,” he added.
In the video, Alfie told viewers that ‘ABTA and ATOL training’ takes ‘only about an hour’, but added his team will receive ongoing support. “You’ll be joining an expert team and I’ll be with you every step of the way. I am here to support you,” he added.
In the meantime, Alfie said he will be selling holidays himself, having watched InteleTravel’s one-hour mandatory training video, mainly focusing on areas he knows, such as southern Spain, Thailand, Malaysia and Colombia, where he has ‘many contacts’.
Alfie, who joined InteleTravel after being approached by a friend’s wife who is one of its franchisees, said he hasn’t yet had time to take part in any other training, but intends to do so in the next ‘month or two’. He said if he finds the InteleTravel destination training isn’t sufficient, he’s prepared to pay for new recruits to take other courses.
