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Africa Travel Consultant

Employer
Red Planet Recruitment
Location
South West London, London, England
Salary
£32,000 - £35,000 per annum + comm + benefits
Closing date
27 Feb 2019

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Sector
Tour Operator
Hours
Full Time
Contract Type
Permanent
Job function
Sales

Job Details

Africa Travel Consultant.    Are you an experienced Africa Travel Consultant hungry for an exciting New role? This Africa specialist Luxury Boutique Tour Operator creates some of the most breath-taking bespoke trips to the continent, covering Luxury Lodges, Safaris, Tours, Honeymoons, Adventure and Beach holidays. Due to organic growth, they are looking for an experienced Africa Specialist Travel Consultant to join them at their South London offices.
 
The Africa Specialist role will see you join a niche, luxury tour operator, creating high value, once in a life time holiday experience, tailor-making safaris & tours and combining them with luxury lodges, flying clients over Victoria Falls, taking them on game drives in the Serengeti, climbing dunes in Namibia and much more.

The Africa Travel Consultant Role:

  • Deliver a passionate high quality of personalised customer service, ensuring your high-end customers feel valued and engaged
  • Follow up Africa enquires promptly, offer expert advice to suit the customer needs and following through on all sales quotations
  • The creation and conversion to sale of high quality tailor-made itineraries
  • Maximise sales opportunities presented, along with specialist knowledge and salesmanship for all individual enquiries
  • Possess the aptitude to work as part of a small specialist team, retaining ownership and accountability of assigned work
  • Ongoing product training provided along with extensive educational trips, offering you the opportunity to develop valuable knowledge on new destination launches in Africa
  • Opportunity to get involved with visiting client’s face to face presentations, company website development, advertising, PR and marketing

Now Let’s Talk About You:

  • Africa specialist Travel consultant with experience in selling safaris, lodges, tours, beach holidays etc.
  • Drive to succeed in sales and a passion for, and travelled to parts of the continent, possess Africa geographical and product knowledge
  • Possess impressive focus on customer service and quality, organisational and time management skills, flexible, practical, thrives on attention to detail
  • Possess excellent problem-solving abilities and can deal with unexpected challenges, resolving them as and when they arise
  • Bright and numeric, efficient and professional
  • Excellent telephone manner, confident communicator with good writing skills

The Package:
Here is a fantastic opportunity to travel the destination you love and sell a destination you love! Along with earning an excellent salary package. The basic salary is £30,000 - £35,000 per annum based on experience, plus commission, including benefits and extensive educationals to Africa, plus with long-term growth opportunities within this African specialist boutique tour operator.
 
Interested?
If so, we’d love to hear from you! When applying for this position, please forward an Africa Travel Profile covering the destinations and places of interest you have travelled to.
 
Important, Please Note: It is unlawful to employ a person in a UK-based role who does not have permission to live and work in the UK. You should make yourself aware of how immigration laws apply to your situation prior to applying. ​

Company

We are travel experts

No matter what your career goals, Red Planet has the expertise and the travel industry connections to help you maximise your potential in today's job market. 

We believe a job is more than just a means to pay the bills - it is a creative outlet for people to apply their skills and talents to something that’s bigger; something that is both challenging and rewarding. The right job will not leave you dreading Monday morning, but positively anticipating what new things the week will hold. If that is something you have yet to discover, then it’s time to call Red Planet! 

As specialists in travel recruitment, Red Planet offers candidates a service that is second to none. The services we provide to our candidates show that we are not just recruiters; we are career advisors and experts in the travel industry.

Red Planet prides itself on the fact that the recruitment team is managed by people who know the travel industry exceptionally well because they have also worked in this exciting and vibrant sector. This makes a big difference as they know what they are talking about.

We have merged the best services that a recruitment agency can offer in order to create an exclusive travel industry personnel and recruitment service, benefiting both our candidates and clients.

Consider us your travel industry connection

Contact us

Red Planet Travel Professionals
86-90 Paul Street
London, EC2A 4NE

Telephone: 020 3540 8981
Email: jobs@redplanetrecruitment.co.uk
Skype: redplanetrecruitment

www.redplanetrecruitment.co.uk

 

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