Do you want to spend all day making people's dreams become a reality? We are looking for an experienced travel consultant to work for an award-winning luxury travel company who create bespoke, tailor-made itineraries to worldwide destinations, exploring some of the World's most famous sites. You will be a part of the USA and Canada team where you will tailor make itineraries to your client's specific requirements. Whether that is a scenic trip through the Rocky Mountains, an adrenaline fuelled experience free-falling in to the Grand Canyon on a giant swing or seeking a more relaxed pace of life visiting one of the many sun kissed islands of the Caribbean. If you want be part of this passionate team of well informed and dedicated management and staff we want to hear from you!

The ideal candidate will be experienced in selling tailor-made long haul holidays (ideally with working knowledge on a GDS system) and have a real passion for travel and customer service. If you have previously worked in retail travel and are now looking for progression or are currently working in tour operations but want a specialist role this could be the ideal job for you!

JOB DESCRIPTION:

Selling tailor-made holidays and tours to the USA & Canada, via telephone and email. All the enquiries will be for worldwide destinations, and with many of the enquiries / Bookings being for multi-centres and tours, direct customers and Agents.

Responsibilities include:

• Create detailed itineraries to customer's exact requirements via the telephone and email
• Source ground arrangements with overseas supplier.
• Using your travel industry experience and solid destination / product knowledge to assist you in advising your clients on their options.
• Delivering excellent levels of customer service, maintaining the strong reputation of this travel company.
• Using GDS daily - ideally Sabre, but happy to cross train

EXPERIENCE REQUIRED:

Previous travel experience is essential, having worked in either retail travel or tour operations, and you will use your excellent destination knowledge to create long lasting and memorable experiences for your clients. This an opportunity that's not to be missed.

THE PACKAGE:

In return a fantastic basic salary is on offer. In addition, a bonus structure is in place seeing you boost your earnings.

INTERESTED?

For this USA and Canada Specialist, please click the link, call Gemma on 0161 9236120 or send your CV to gemma@traveltraderecruitment.co.uk