Currently, our Client is seeking a Travel Consultant with Groups Travel Management experience to provide support services to their company, to successfully quote profitable tour products for existing as well as new clients.
Job Purpose:
To successfully quote profitable tour products for existing as well as new clients.
Key Responsibilities:
Sales
• Secure business and effectively cost products.
• Understand the market and margin control.
• Build up and maintain agent / supplier relationships.
• Source new products.
• Develop own sales strategy to secure more business through existing and new agents.
• Work closely with the team to achieve goals.
Operations
Quote and design successful, creative itineraries and proposals for all market related ADHOC groups, Tour Series and FIT requests.
• Capture and confirm bookings in Tourplan.
• Negotiate with suppliers for better rates, cancellation policies and FOC’s.
• Find new suppliers that offer a good service and better rates.
• Follow up on quotes that have been sent out.
• Successfully run groups bookings.
• Compile welcome packs itineraries.
• Create co-pilots according to itinerary.
• Handling the 24hour emergency phone.
• Prepare guide documentation and brief guide before travel date.
• Work closely with tour guides whilst on tour.
Financial
• Instruct debtors to raise invoice.
• Reconcile supplier invoices for processing.
• Assist debtors clerk with invoicing / collection queries.
• Reconcile tour guide expense sheets on completion of tours / check guide salary invoices

Additional responsibilities:
• Participate in supplier training and workshops.
• Reduce the transaction turnaround time.
• Demonstrate good communication skills and customer care.
• Stay current on events and changes of suppliers / product.
• Travel on educational and familiarizations trips.
We look forward to receiving your informative application including earliest possible starting date.