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Travel Agents Connect the World
Travel agents make travel arrangements; airline, car, hotel, cruises, tours, sight seeing trips, and more for people traveling anywhere in the world.
These reservations are made at your fingertips using the WORLDSPAN Computer Reservation System (CRS), which you will learn hands on in class. The Travel Academy has only 14 students per class and each student has 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 valuable information for most cities and areas around the world including: required vaccines, customs info, weather info, sight seeing and numerous other general information.
Types of Travel Agent Jobs
There are two main categories of travel agents: corporate travel agents (who make travel arrangements for business travelers) and leisure travel agents (who make travel arrangements for individual travelers, families or small groups of travelers visiting family, friends or going on vacation).
The Travel Academy Travel Agent Training Includes:
- WORLDSPAN Computer Reservation System training
- Airport codes
- Airline terminology
- Airline pricing
- How to find the lowest airfares
- Reading airline tickets
- Understanding fare ladders (the breakdown of the airfare, taxes, surcharges)
- ARC and it’s functions (Airline Reporting Corporation)
- International travel information:
- Hotel information, including booking on WORLDSPAN
- Car rental information, including booking on WORLDSPAN
- Rail information, including Amtrak and the European Train systems
- Tour information, including using VAX (Vacation Access) and World Agent Direct, two nationally used travel agent booking websites
- Cruise agent information
- Sales and customer service
Travel Agent Internships
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 with travel agents. You may also request an internship to work at a travel agency while going to school to gain more hands on experience for your travel agent career. The internships may be paid, but in most cases are not.
Excellent Travel Agent Career Placement
Once you are 3/4 of the way through your travel agent training, our Placement Department will start working with you to place you in your travel agent career. We have hundreds of travel agent jobs available for our graduates, and many students are placed before they graduate with multiple job offers. To view our placement successes check out our recently placed travel agent training graduates.
Travel Agent Career Advancement
In addition, The Travel Academy has "Life Time Placement Assistance". As you gain experience in your travel agent career, 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 and help you move forward. We do this Free of Charge to you and the 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 graduates aware of the many advancement opportunities available and the demand for their skills.
Travel Agencies Recently in our Office
- American Express Travel (over 4,000 offices through the world)
- Carlson Wagonlit Travel (2nd largest travel company in the world)
- AAA Travel (3rd largest travel company in the world)
- Hobbit Travel (largest individual agency in the Twin Cities)
- ACS** (handles ticketing for Priceline.com, Yahoo.com, Orbitz.com, Nwa.com)
- LJK Companies** (airline and hotel reservations for pilots and flight crew)
- Centrav (International Airline Consolidator)
- Travel Advisors International
**These companies rely on the WORLDSPAN Reservation System—the same system we teach you how to use!
Contact The Travel Academy to start your travel agent training today!
About The Travel Academy
The Travel Academy is a travel agent training facility located in Minneapolis, Minnesota (MN). We're right by the Minneapolis St. Paul Airport (MSP), in the suburb of Bloomington and a few blocks from the Mall of America. The Travel Academy provides airline training, in particular flight attendant training, airline reservation training, airline ticket training and gate training. In addition, we provide travel agent training, tour company training, cruise line training and training to work for car rental companies and hotels. The Travel Academy can adequately prepare you for all of these positions because you will be trained on WORLDSPAN --the reservation system through which the travel industry is connected. To get more information regarding these positions please refer to our career page.