Travel Agent - Work From Home
Destinee Travel
- Rochester, IN
- Permanent
- Full-time
- Research, Create, and Execute exceptional itineraries for clients
- Review individuals needs and wants for travel, to ensure you can cater a trip specially designed to meet their needs
- Complete ongoing training to earn and maintain certification to book travel
- Attend ongoing webinars with vendors and suppliers, to become specialized with specific destinations
- Provide suggested budgets for clients
- Review budgets, and plan trips according to clients budget constraints
- Create promotional materials to utilize
- Stay up to date on changes within the tourism industry
- Monitor restrictions on travel that come and go
- Book travel needs (airline, car rental, hotel accommodations, cruise, ticket/event sales, etc…)
- Effectively communicate with clients pre/post travel
- Promptly respond to all travel inquires
- Effectively manage your time when researching trips and communicating with clients
- Handle issues that may arise during the bookings and/or travel for clients
- Maintain up to date information within our software
- Network with tour operators regarding packages that you can possibly offer to clients
- Participate in FAM trips when possible
- Must be fluent in English
- Must be able to effectively communicate with clients (strong sales background a plus)
- Must have a smartphone with internet access, laptop recommend but not required
- Personal travel experience is a huge plus, however not required
- Previous experience in customer service or hospitality also a plus, but not required
- Plenty of room to grow in the business
- Earn your own IATA number
- Discounted travel
- Fam trips
- Extremely flexible hours