Tourism manager
This course will be useful for those who:
- plans to change the field of activity;
- wants to work in the tourism industry;
- are fond of geography and dream of turning their hobby into the main source of income;
- plans to open their own travel agency;
- travel a lot and want to know the “whole kitchen” of the travel business from the inside.
Training program
- Tour operator and travel agency – main differences and responsibilities.
- Scheme of interaction in tourism.
- Basic concepts in tourism.
- Classification of hotels, types of accommodation, types of food.
- What is a tour package. The main components of a tour package.
- Group, individual and GDS tours.
- What is a CRM system and why is it needed.
- Rules for maintaining a client base.
- Tour selection on the websites of tour operators and in the CRM system.
- Individual request for tour selection. Features of GDS tours.
- Online booking through the CRM system and on the websites of major tour operators. What to look for when booking a tour. Booking tours without a tourist’s passport.
- Pre-booking a tour on the tour operator’s website.
- Application status: “Booked”; “Confirmed”; “Not confirmed”. Actions of the manager on booked requests.
- Airline tickets. Scheduled and charter flights. How to book airline tickets for scheduled and charter flights. How to read airline tickets. Possible fares. Refusal/refund of tickets.
- Establishing contact and identifying needs.
- Oral presentation. Presentation in writing.
- Working out objections.
- How to conduct a dialog with tourists. Systems of “touches”.
- Penalties for the booked tour.
- Work with applications in the office of the TO.
- Signing a contract with a tourist for tour services.
- Electronic contract and additional agreement. Penalties for the tour. Issuance of documents.
- The chain of tourist services. When is it possible to issue documents to a tourist for a trip. Where to get documents for a tour for tourists.
- What to warn the tourist about at the time of issuing documents for the trip.
- Ways to provide documents.