New program gets agents back into industry

Just days after Travel Counsellors called for more flexible hours for agents, it’s launched a brand new program to get passionate travel professionals back into the industry.

It comes after a jump in enquiries from people looking to return to travel, as well as a growing trend for home-based agency models cropping up left, right and centre.

So to accommodate the market, Travel Counsellors has launched its ‘Return to Travel’ program.

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Return to Travel offers a new route for travel professionals with at least four years of experience, but who have been out of the industry for more than a few years.

Such people will not require intensive training but need refreshing in policies, procedures, and technology developments in the industry. The programme provides this refresher and equips candidates with all the tools, training, support and technology to run their own business as a Travel Counsellor.

Fred van Eijk, Managing Director at Travel Counsellors, said, “We’re seeing an increasing number of people who are looking to return to a career in travel but need some refresher training to get them up to speed with industry changes that may have happened since they’ve left.

“Travel is a complex industry but once you’re in it your passion never dies and the Return to Travel programme offers an ideal route to building your own successful travel business with all the additional support Travel Counsellors offers.

“This unique programme offers a potentially huge return on a relatively small investment, enabling travel professionals to hit the ground running after their training.

“With unlimited earning potential, and the flexibility to choose your own working hours, it’s the most supportive and rewarding way to step back into the world of travel”.

“If you have left a job as a retail agent more than a few years back, our ‘Return to Travel’ programme is specifically tailored for people just like you,” New Starter Business Coach, Kerryn Murphy, said.

“[People] who might be a bit rusty, but still retain a level of knowledge and experience that makes them more advanced than someone without any experience selling and packaging travel.

“The programme will allow them to reduce the time spent re-training and focus on setting up their own business alongside others who are doing the same thing, at the same time, at the same level.

“With a dedicated amount of resource and state of the art software, we really are positioned to support and help our agents achieve their dream”.

The Return to Travel induction training is made up of pre-induction online learning modules, one week in the office, three additional days of our two-day Super Seller training at 12 weeks, and then weekly remote meetings from you home.

This includes training on in-house systems and technology; recent changes in the travel industry; selling skills; product and destination training; and comprehensive training on how to build a business.

The first RTT course commences on 21 August 2017.

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