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Travel Consultant - Australia & New Zealand

Travel Trade Recruitment
Posted 11 days ago, valid for 7 days
Location

Manchester, Greater Manchester M17 1DJ, England

Salary

£28 per hour

Contract type

Full Time

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  • An award-winning luxury Tour Operator is seeking an Australia & New Zealand Reservations Consultant to join their team.
  • The role requires candidates to have experience working for a Tour Operator and a background in selling these destinations, along with travel experience in Australia or New Zealand.
  • The position offers a competitive salary of up to £28k per annum, along with an excellent commission scheme and a hybrid working model.
  • Candidates should possess strong selling skills, excellent communication abilities, and ideally knowledge of GDS systems, with a solid travel background preferred.
  • The package includes 25 days of holiday plus bank holidays, additional holidays for years of service, and various employee benefits.

Award-winning luxury Tour Operator is keen to recruit an Australia & New Zealand Reservations Consultant to their team. If you have experience of working for a Tour Operator, have travelled to Australia / New Zealand, and have sold these destinations, this is a lovely opportunity to work hybrid (offices just outside Manchester city centre - parking available), with a competitive basic up to £28k pa, excellent commission scheme, and office hours Mon-Sat rota (5 days out of 6). What's more you'll be part of a growing company, that are currently expanding their long-haul destination offerings.

. What's more you'll be part of a growing company, that are currently expanding their long-haul destination offerings.

JOB DESCRIPTION:

  • Create detailed itineraries to exactly suit the customers' requirements (both telephone and email enquiries)
  • Source varied ground arrangements with overseas suppliers, ensuring your itinerary exactly meets the client's requirements.
  • Liaising with agents and clients at various stages of the quotation process
  • Use various web-based systems to check live availability of products
  • Process bookings on our in-house system
  • Maintaining excellent customer service throughout

EXPERIENCE REQUIRED

  • Solid travel background with good geographical knowledge
  • Strong selling skills with proven ability to convert enquiries into sales
  • Excellent communication & customer service skills
  • Knowledge of GDS system would be preferred
  • Must be able to work to strict deadlines

THE PACKAGE

Starting salary of circa £25k - £28k pa DOE and commission with average earnings between £300 - £800 per month. 25 days plus Bank Holidays. Plus, one extra holiday for every year of service - up to 5.* Benefits Platform - access to discounts and cashback with hundreds of retailers.* FAM Trips Opportunities.* Free Parking * Access to staff travel discount websites.

INTERESTED?

Please follow the instructions to apply attaching your CV! For any further information please call or email If this role is not quite right, but you have Travel Industry experience and are keen to find a new opportunity, please do send your CV, we may have something else that could be perfect for you! Know someone else who might be interested in Travel Industry opportunities? Please share our details!

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In order to submit this application, a Reed account will be created for you. As such, in addition to applying for this job, you will be signed up to all Reed’s services as part of the process. By submitting this application, you agree to Reed’s Terms and Conditions and acknowledge that your personal data will be transferred to Reed and processed by them in accordance with their Privacy Policy.