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Senior Bespoke Travel Advisor – Asia (Mon-Fri)

Employer
Red Planet Recruitment
Location
London, England
Salary
£31,000 - £34,000 per annum + comm + benefits
Closing date
28 Apr 2019

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

Job Details

Senior Bespoke Travel Advisor – Asia.   An opportunity has arisen to work for a leading cutting edge ultra-luxury specialist tour operator in London. Our client provides the world’s finest luxury experiences, unforgettable memories and mesmerising worldwide destinations.

This role offers considerable scope for someone of impeccable travel credentials to develop and take ownership of a key region. The role is ideally suited to an intelligent, self-motivated professional looking to develop their creative skills while challenging conventional notions of luxury within travel.

Reporting to the General Manager, you will have direct responsibility for creating and managing bespoke trips in Asia, and for developing creative ideas and marketing for your region.

You will need:

  • A minimum of 5 years’ experience in a sales or product role within luxury and/or adventure travel
  • An appetite to research and create highly differentiated journeys
  • Uncommonly creative big-picture thinking and problem-solving
  • An outstanding knowledge of Asia (from India to New Zealand
  • Passion for and a willingness to travel
  • Exceptional inter-personal skills and the ability to relate to demanding, well-travelled, HNW and UHNW clients
  • A refusal to accept uninteresting, unoriginal ideas

Key responsibilities:

  • Creating incomparably original, creative and considered travel experiences for well-travelled and demanding clients
  • Communicating with clients by phone, email and face to face to receive client brief, discuss projects and present itineraries
  • Analysing and interpreting client interview data and using it as the basis for creative travel research and planning
  • Conducting extensive research to develop often logistically complex ideas into client trip concepts
  • Analysing and refining in-country partner proposals
  • Pricing of projects
  • Trip management and guide liaison before and during a client’s journey
  • Managing local partner relationships

The Package:
Our client offers a pleasant and upmarket working environment with excellent 9am-5.30pm, Monday to Friday working hours, along with a fantastic remuneration package, where the basic salary is £31,000 - £34,000 per annum, DOE, plus commission, including 20 days’ annual leave + bank holidays, with the opportunity to travel overseas on Luxury Fam Trips.

​Sounds Like you?
If so, we’d love to hear from you!

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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