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Careers - Travel Agency Training

The highest numbers of Travel Academy graduates start their travel careers with travel agencies, as travel consultants also referred to as travel agents. Travel agents make travel arrangements: airline, car, hotel, cruises, tours, sight seeing trips and more for people traveling from anywhere in the world to any where in the world.

These reservations are made at your fingertips, using the Computer Reservation System, (CRS), WORLDSPAN, which our travel agency training courses offer. The Travel Academy has only 14 students per class, and each student will have their own WORLDSPAN reservation system. WORLDSPAN is a travel reservation system that connects the travel industry worldwide. WORLDSPAN allows you to make reservations for airline tickets, car rentals, hotels, cruises, tours and sight seeing trips most anywhere in the world. In addition, WORLDSPAN has information for most cities and areas around the world, along with required vaccines, customs, weather, sight seeing and numerous other general information.

Types of Travel Agency Jobs

There are two main categories of travel agents (consultants), corporate travel agents (make travel arrangements for business travelers) or leisure travel consultants (make travel arrangements for individual travelers, families or small groups of travelers visiting family, friends or going on vacation). The Travel Academy also has opportunities available to work for travel agencies while going to school, as receptionists and general agency support to gain hands on experience. You may also request an internship for travel agency training while going to school to gain more hands on experience for your travel agency career. The internships may be paid, but in most cases are not.

Travel Agency Career Placement

Once you are ¾ of the way through your travel agency training, our Placement Department will start working with you to place you in your career. We have hundreds of travel agency jobs available for our graduates and many students are placed before they've completed training with multiple job offers.

Travel Agency Career Advancement

In addition, The Travel Academy has "Life Time Placement Assistance". As you gain experience in the travel agency industry, you become in high demand and qualify for advancement opportunities (experience consultants, international consultants, on-site corporate consultants, group travel consultants, tour escorts, training, supervisory and management positions). These advancement opportunities will be higher paying positions with additional benefits and more responsibility.

The Travel Academy is made aware of these advancement opportunities and will make you aware of them, helping you move forward. We do this free of charge to you and your employer! This is a huge benefit because it keeps our graduates moving forward, "Head Hunters" charge thousands of dollars to bring experienced travel industry personal to these positions, and we do it for free. This also keeps our travel agency training graduates aware of the many advancement opportunities available and the demand for their skills.

Contact The Travel Academy to start your travel agency career training today!