Senior Tour and Travel Consultant at Corporate Staffing

Key Responsibilities 

• Design flexible tour packages, excursions, safaris, and other related services in regard to tours to meet the needs of different clients
• Create and sell innovative inbound and outbound tour packages to meet market demand
• Maintain and organize airline contracts, keeping them up to date
• Research and constantly source for interesting product packages to meet consumer demands
• Check and process ticket re-issue and fare calculations
• Ensuring airlines fares are loaded correctly and liaising with airlines to rectify
• Respond to inquiries regarding hotels & safaris within 24hrs
• Prepare itineraries to the various destinations of interest
• Keep clients up to date with changes in the travel industry
• Ensure payment for each tour booking is received in advance or proper authorization is received from a corporate prior to credit sale
• Create contact with hotels, car hire, sightseeing attractions, and other service providers for the best competitive contract rates
• Making follow-ups on tour quotations
• Ensuring that tours quotations are competitive as well as terms & conditions
• Arranging to see vehicles (and if possible be accompanied by customer reps) before the start of service to ensure quality and minimize customer complains

Key Qualifications.

• Bachelor’s degree in Hospitality, Travel, Tourism, Business or a relevant field 
• Must have at least 4 years’ experience as a tour consultant
• Experience in liaising with international travel agents/partners
• Excellent planning and organizational skills
• Self-motivated, Confident, and outgoing personality
• Ability to multi-task and get things done to completion
• A Team player with good interpersonal and communication skills
• Excellent networking and prospecting skills