Tour Consultant Jobs, Tours Travel Jobs March 2020,
Job title: Tour Consultant
Industry: Tours & Travel
Location: Nairobi
Job description
A local tour company seeks to hire a qualified and experienced tour consultant. The tour consultant’s main role is to create tour packages and market them to our clients while providing a memorable experience.
Responsibilities
- Responding to inquiries regarding hotels & safaris within 24hrs
- Create and sell innovative tour packages to meet market demand
- Prepare itineraries to the various destinations of interest
- Making flight quotations
- Doing tour bookings – both inbound and outbound
- Ensuring KWS park rules & hotel regulations are clearly explained to tourists
- Ensuring payment for each tour booking is received in advance or proper authorization is received from a corporate prior to credit sale
- Maintaining good relationships with hotels, car hire, sightseeing attraction and other service providers for best competitive contract rates
- Ensure bookings that are not confirmed are cancelled in time to avoid cancellation penalties
- Ensure clients’ special requests especially on accommodation & room specification, driver guide language, meals and others are pre-arranged for the clients convenience
- Coordinating with other team in arranging flying & ground packages
- Making follow-ups for tour quotations
- Ensuring that tours quotations are competitive
- Inclusions, exclusions as well as terms & conditions of a quotation should be highlighted to reduce disputes with clients
Qualifications
- Certificate or Diploma or Degree in Tour operations or tourism management or related field
- Minimum of 2 years of continuous experience as Tour/travel consultant in a busy environment
- Ability to use various tours/hotel booking systems
- Must have IATA, AMADEUS qualification
- Experience inbound and outbound tours is preferred
- Knowledge of GDS an advantage
- Great communication and interpersonal skills
How to Apply
Please only send your updated CV quoting the job title in the email subject (Tour Consultant) to recruiterkenya@gmail.com before 13th March 2020.
Kindly indicate current/last salary on your CV. Only applicants meeting the criteria outlined above will be contacted.