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North America Travel Consultant, Leeds

Employer
Travel Trade Recruitment
Location
Leeds, West Yorkshire, England
Salary
Market Rate
Closing date
30 May 2019

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

Job Details

My client, a leading travel company with various branches throughout the UK, is looking for a full time, senior member of staff for their busy office located in Leeds. The ideal candidate will be a high calibre tailor made travel consultant with good travel knowledge/experience and identify high standards of customer service. The role will involve creating tailor-made packages to suit the customer's needs. The ideal candidate must have previous travel experience and ideally a strong knowledge North America & Canada.

Job Description:
- Dealing with customers in the office and taking enquiries via email and telephone.
- Selling primarily luxury travel products
- Dynamically packaging itineraries and travel to European and Worldwide Destinations
- Converting enquiries to bookings, using your experience and knowledge to advice customers on the best holiday for your valued client.
- Offering an excellent standard of customer service to valued repeat, recommended and new clients.
- Proven background and ability in arranging tailor-made worldwide travel itineraries
- Experience working with a GDS (Sabre, Galileo or Amadeus) would be desirable but not essential
- Passionate about travel
- Professional face to face and telephone manner and highly customer service focussed
- Proven ability to build rapport with customers
- Strong attention to detail
- Ability to meet and exceed targets

EXPERIENCE REQUIRED:
We are looking for an experienced for North America & Canada Specialist. Ideally you will have experience of selling a wide variety of Tour Operators including dynamically packaging itineraries. Luxury Travel knowledge is preferred. Great customer service, sales and communications skills are essential, ideally experience with working on a GDS system.

THE PACKAGE:
My client offers an above average salary, dependent on experience plus any additional bonus and benefits

INTERESTED?
Follow the instructions to apply, email your CV to fran@traveltraderecruitment.co.uk or call Francessca on 0161 923 6120

Company

TRAVEL TRADE RECRUITMENT
Travel Trade Recruitment handles vacancies from hundreds of employers each year. We have a wide variety of permanent and temporary job opportunities within all sectors of the travel industry, including business travel, tour operations, retail travel, and reservations.
We want to help you find the ideal travel industry job, make the next career step, and maximise your potential. We do this by finding out about you, as well as what is important to your career goals and lifestyle aspirations.

TRAINING
We also offer CRS training courses in the four major systems of Galileo, Sabre, Amadeus, Worldspan, and can advise which course would enhance your career.
Find more details at www.traveltradetraining.com

VOTED 'BEST UKTRAVEL RECRUITMENT CONSULTANCY'
Travel Trade Recruitment won three awards in 2009 for Best Travel Recruitment Consultancy, including 'Best UK Travel Recruitment Consultancy' at the Globe Travel Awards, Star Recruitment Consultancy at the Travel Bulletin Awards, and Travel Recruitment Company of the Year at the recent British Travel Awards. We are an official ABTA Industry Partner, Members of the Institute of Travel and Tourism (IATA) and the Recruitment and Employment Confederation.

All information supplied to Travel Trade Recruitment will be dealt with confidentiality. Your details will not be passed onto a Client without your specific permission.

Our service to job seekers is completely free. Contact your nearest office and speak our friendly consultants for free advice, or register for our online recruitment services at

www.traveltradejobs.com

London Office
Tel: 0203 887 9444
Email: london@traveltraderecruitment.co.uk

Birmingham Office
Tel: 0121 222 2624
Email: birmingham@traveltraderecruitment.co.uk

Manchester Office
Tel: 0161 923 6120
Email: manchester@traveltraderecruitment.co.uk

Leeds Office
Tel: 0113 394 4147
Email: leeds@traveltraderecruitment.co.uk

Scottish Division
Tel: 0141 248 5222
Email: scotland@traveltraderecruitment.co.uk

Temp Division
Tel: 0203 887 9444
Email: temps@traveltraderecruitment.co.uk

 

 

Company info
Website
Telephone
0203 887 9444
Location
3rd Floor, 1 Aldgate
London
EC3N 1RE
GB

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