Job for Tour Market Specialist in Cape Town March 2024
Tour Market Specialist Vacancy in Cape Town March 2024
| Remuneration: | Market related |
| Location: | Cape Town |
| Type: | Permanent |
| Reference: | #AW |
Our client, a tour company wishes to employ a tour market specialist to join their dynamic team. The right candidate will be responsible for providing quotations for profitable tour products to clients while managing tour operations including the creation of itineraries, negotiating with suppliers and preparing all documents before travel dates. If you seek a position that encompasses a vast range of duties where you will be consistently challenged and rewarded with a market-related salary package.
Key responsibilities:
Sales
- Secure business by developing own sales strategy through existing and new agents
- Build up and maintain agent and supplier relationships
- Source new products
- Work closely with the team to achieve goals
Operations
- Provide and follow up on quotations, 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 FOCs
- 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 and reconcile supplier invoices for processing
- Assist debtors clerk with invoicing and collection queries
- Reconcile tour guide expense sheets on completion of tours
Qualification and experience
- Matric
- Tertiary qualification in tourism
- Minimum two to four years’ experience in a similar role
Key competencies:
- Excellent verbal and written language skills in English
- Computer literate and MS Office knowledge
- Establish and maintain a good relationship with customers and suppliers
- Constantly promote a positive image of the company internally and externally through quality service
- Stay current on events and changes
If you interested in this position and meet the requirements, then send your CV to anthea@akarecruitmentint.com.
Contact details
Anthea
AKA Recruitment International
anthea@akarecruitmentint.com