Job Description
Location: Irving, Texas
Term/Hours: Full-time
Requirements: MUST HAVE PREVIOUS TRAVEL BOOKING EXPERIENCE, Requires occasional evening and weekend work for trade shows or networking events.
Harvest Journeys is a privately owned Catholic tour company. As we launch our first office in America, we are searching for a dynamic, DFW-based Group Travel Consultant to play a vital role in ensuring the travel and touring arrangements of these groups are coordinated professionally and seamlessly. The role will encompass a direct working relationship with customers to service their inquiries, book their travel arrangements, and successfully finalize pilgrimage documentation.
This is a full-time, onsite role officing in Irving.
Responsibilities:
- Consult with customers to identify their travel requirements and advise suitable options
- Plan, prepare and cost itineraries (travel plans) for customers
- Efficient processing of customer bookings for pilgrimage package travel
- Coordination of customer reservations using Harvest's Travel Management System
- Timely development and distribution of customer documentation
- Efficiently handle customer inquiries
- Represent Harvest Journeys at tradeshows and networking events
Qualifications and Experience:
- 3 - 5 years International Travel Consultant experience
- Previous group travel and pilgrimage experience preferred
- Experience with web-based applications and reservations systems (Galileo, Moonstride, Events Air)
- Good communication skills
- Christian/Catholic faith is a plus
- Strong organizational skills with a focus on results and attention to detail
- Sound knowledge of European/Middle East travel destinations with a focus on key Catholic pilgrimage sites
Attributes:
- High standards of customer service
- Strong communication skills
- Highly developed organizational skills/result focused and attention to detail
- Professional demeaner
- Strong influential and negotiation skills
- Can work in a team environment
- Sound computer skills - (Microsoft Office applications, Galileo)
- Proactive approach and a commitment to do whatever is necessary to ensure deadlines are met
- Ability to adapt and respond quickly to changing ideas and processes
- Can work autonomously and fit well with the Harvest team
Salary: Competitive based on experience
To apply, please email your resume and a cover letter outlining your interest in the position, salary requirements, and pilgrimage/group/faith-based travel experience to [REMOVED - SEE ORIGINAL LISTING]
Job Tags
Full time, Temporary work, Afternoon shift,