Luxury Travel Specialist (Remote)

Do you have experience working with the travel trade?

This Leading luxury Travel Company is expanding its beach specialist team and seeking a Luxury Travel Consultant to join their growing team as a homeworker, selling to Travel Agents.

You will be handling incoming sales calls from various travel trade partners, putting together tailor-made holidays to long haul beach destinations.

If you are looking for competitive basic salary, plus commission, and the flexibility to work from home, please apply now!

Job Responsibilities:

  • Tailor-making itineraries to luxury beach destinations to suit the clients individual needs.
  • Meeting and exceeding personal objectives, including sales, revenue and productivity targets
  • Follow up sales enquiries promptly and liaise with customers and Travel partners
  • Provide outstanding customer service.
  • Offer expertise, advice and knowledge to Travel Agent partners and customers about destinations, airlines and ground arrangements.
  • Provide packages that are "tailor-made" to suit the individual needs of our clients.
  • Take advantage of opportunities and up-sell whenever possible.

Skills Required:

  • Experience selling luxury itineraries to beach destinations
  • Experience using a GDS
  • Experience within a target driven sales environment
  • Excellent geographical knowledge
  • The ability to communicate effectively both written and verbally
  • To have a professional manner
  • To have a passion for travel

The Package:

  • A competitive basic salary of £30,000 - £35,000 depending on experience plus commission
  • Fully home working

INTERESTED?

Please follow the instructions to apply attaching your CV! For any further information please call 0203 8879444 or email regis@traveltraderecruitment.co.uk 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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