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.