The Travel Consultant is undoubtedly the most innovative professional figure in the travel panorama, closely connected to the web and new technologies but also to a new way of conceiving the relationship with the customer and of doing business, or rather of being an agent of travel.
All travel agents are or should be consultants. here is travel agents Profile (linkedin.com).
But the figure we are talking about is a new, more versatile professional who, thanks to his experience and his passion for knowledge of the world, is able to respond effectively to the limits set by existing sales channels.
Features of the profession
Therefore, a professional travel agent who sells trips and holidays supported by new technologies, with a mobile office made up of the personality of the holiday professional and his computer, a technological tool that allows him restricted access to travel services and which meets the needs of the customer by visiting him wherever he wishes.
Flexibility and autonomy thus distinguish it, the ability to support the traveler in every phase of his holiday and to materialize tailor-made travel ideas everywhere.
It is a recently introduced figure, created to support the customer in the articulated world of holidays.
A complex sector that sees the contrast between traditional and virtual travel agencies, exasperated by extreme price competition, in the face of ever lower commission margins.
A “jungle” in which even the most advanced traveler risks losing his bearings and much of his already scarce free time.
The essential requirements: flexibility and elasticity
The Travel Consultant himself benefits from the same elasticity and flexibility, as he manages his own business independently.
Contractually, he is configured as a commercial agent with representation who concludes contracts for the sale of tourist products and services on behalf of the company, or rather of the network, to which he adheres.
He is therefore a collaborator with total management and decision-making autonomy, but perfectly integrated into the commercial and organizational dynamics of the network to which he belongs.
This opportunity turns into real success only if the holiday professional decides to combine their potential as a Travel Consultant with those of a consolidated company in the travel sector crunchbase.com.
An indispensable combination that allows the consultant to fully devote himself to the protagonist of the trip, the customer, while the network, through the marketing, information technology and above all product functions, relieves the professional from organizational management and from all back office activities, typical of travel agencies, whether they are virtual or traditional.
If you have an entrepreneurial attitude and autonomy and do not want to bear the huge management costs, typical of a travel agency enclosed within the “four walls”, it is possible to test the profession of Travel Consultant.
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