Travel Consultant
This well established retail travel company have a reputation for providing a truly professional service, and their team of experts are skilled at providing a personalised approach to match customers to their dream holidays. They now have a new opportunity for an experienced Travel Consultant to join their growing retail team. Salary of 25k to 26k plus commission with an OTE of up to circa 35k.
Travel Consultant - Role & Responsibilities:
- Provide a friendly, professional service to customers both face to face or over the phone to determine travel needs, budget and preferences.
- Use sales ability to book all elements of the trip including upselling extras such as transfers, excursions, and insurance etc.
- Provide advice to customers using expert knowledge of destinations, cultures, weather and activities.
- Offer a customer focused after sales service, to collect payments, deal with any questions and handle any amendments & cancellations etc.
- Build and maintain excellent relationships with suppliers and tour operator partners.
- Conduct own research to build and main strong destination knowledge and stay abreast of industry trends.
- Maintain an accurate record of bookings, payments, transactions, phone calls and meetings.
- Represent the company as required to attend travel events & conferences.
Travel Consultant - Skills & Experience Required:
- Proven experience as a travel consultant, ideally minimum of 2 years' experience.
- Strong worldwide knowledge of popular holiday destinations.
- Ability to deliver high quality customer service and passion for creating exceptional travel experiences.
- A genuine passion for travel and its ever-changing landscape, staying current with global travel trends and events, and competitor activities.
- A tenacious, positive approach with a proven track record in travel sales.
- Working knowledge of a variety of travel booking systems.
- Excellent communication skills, both written and verbal and numerical competence.
- Exceptional customer service skills.
- Strong attention to detail and accuracy skills.
Travel Consultant - Additional information:
- Salary dependent on experience, 25k to 26k basic plus commission, OTE up to circa 35k.
- 100% office based in retail travel store in Bristol area.
- Working Monday to Friday 9 to 5.30 with 1 in 3 Saturdays 9 to 1.30 (half day off in lieu)
- Regular fam trips
Please apply for the position of Travel Consultant online or email your cv to (url removed)
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