Travel Advisor Review

My Role as a travel advisor is to sell holidays but there is a lot behind the scenes work that we do daily. This includes following up previous enquiries, daily tasks for example chasing complaints, diary which ensures we have confirmations tickets and shows outstanding balances and well as actioning post

I have defiantly developed and learnt new skills. My confidence has grown with TUI as well as my rapport with customers. When I came to TUI I had never been in a sales role before so this is a big skills I have gained as well as time management and organisation

I enjoy the programme a lot. The apprenticeship ties in with day to day work very well and helps expand my knowledge on things I do daily. The only down side is finding the time ti do the work;as the job role is unpredictable and you don’t knownif there are going to be lots of customer or none and how long you will be with them, getting the work done within due dates is difficult.

I think the structure works well - a module of work at month. However there are constantly changes which I understand but sometimes you’ll spend a lot of time on some work for it to then be removed from the programme. There are also times where work is added in and your not told about it.

I receive a lot of support from my work colleague who will help me with questions that I may not know the answer to or will help with witness statements. However I was told when starting that my assessor does monthly visits - I have only ever had one visit throughout a year.

My Apprenticeship Assesor is alwaysbhappy to help, I can contact by email or phone and she helps me with questions/tasks I don’t understand. She replies quickly to make sure I can get things done as soon as possible. However as mentioned before, we only have phone reviews never face to face when I think these pups be helpful.

A lot of the task/question so far are about things that I have learnt on the role - I think it helps to understand these things I am doing but also I already know a lot of it. However in terms of legal knowledge it really helps me to learn new things that I can use daily in my role.

Each shop does their part for our TUI charities, we sometimes host events for these charities like sponsored runs, raffles etc which everyone can get involved in. There a different training sessions that are fun like Disney that everyone can get involved in to help their gain more knowledge on products we sell

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I think it’s a great place to work with lots of knowledge to be learnt and they have great incentives going for the job so loads of benefits. Plus I think the team are very nice and friendly. The job is very enjoyable and it’s nice to be speaking to new people

It’s not all about booking holidays! Make sure your up for lots of different challenges and admin work - there is a lot more to the job that people don’t realise working in retail selling. You must be motivated and enthusiastic to hit targets and work as one team