DIPLOMA IN TRAVEL AGENT OPERATIONS STUDIES PROFESSIONAL

TRAVEL AGENT COURSE - A CAREER AS A LEISURE AND BUSINESS TRAVEL AGENT 

Do you want a job as a Travel Agent?  Would like to study a travel course with practical skills? Would you like to study Travel Agent Training Course? 

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Learn the knowledge and practical skills  that are required for a professional Travel Agent career.  Learn the aspects of both Leisure and Business Travel career paths in the confront of your own home, no matter where you are in the world.  

This worldwide recognised qualification and training required by many travel, airline and airport industry leading employers gives candidates to gain competence in booking Airline, Hotel and Car Hire, Travel Agents, Tour Operators, Railways and other Travel Services to book and create Reservations. In addition to this, Air Travel Information, Passport, Visas and Health for Worldwide Destinations for customers and passengers allowing the agent to gather live accurate information from all service providers.

The Diploma in Travel Operations is both course-base materials and e-learning with hands-on practice training allows the candidate to confidently gain knowledge, familiarity and hands-on experience to equip for your newly found career  within  the Travel Industry.  

Candidates will learn the theory and be able to put into practice using simulated systems such as

1. Travel Agency Operations an essential introduction to the Industry and the key areas;  
2. Fundamentals covering key aspects of travel information; 
3. Airfares and Ticketing familiarity to ticketing principles for different passengers scenarios.  
4. Sabre Airline and Travel Reservations hands on experience of one of the popular reservation systems used in the industry.
5. Business Travel Management the key aspects of business travel implemented by the leading business travel companies in the world. Check the emulated Sabre availability with airlines, hotels and car hire companies and book reservations with great efficiency.

The Diploma in Travel Operations Professional given candidates an advantage to a foothold in the travel industry with well equipped career skills and confidentially book reservations for passengers, customers and clients for some of the well established organisations.

WHAT IS COVERED IN THE COURSE? 

This course provides you with in the following:

Module 1 - The Travel Agency Operations 

• Travel geography 
• Introduction to Airfares and Ticketing 
• Knowledge of Global Distribution Systems 
• Travel Operations

Module 2 - Travel Industry Regulated Bodies and Industry Abbreviations 

Module 3 - Worldwide Travel Destinations 

Module 4 - Commercial Airlines,  Alliances and Aircraft Types 

Module 5 - Travel Industry Customer Service 

Module 6 - Travel Industry Fundamentals 

Lesson 1 - Time Zones

Lesson 2 -  Airport and City Codes  

Lesson 3 - Leisure Travel 

Lesson 4 - Business Travel 

Lesson 5 - Other types of Travel 

Lesson 6 -  Worldwide Airport

Lesson 7 - Commercial Airlines 

Lesson 8 -  Hotel Companies 

Lesson 9 - Car Companies 

Lesson 10 -  Rail Companies 

Lesson 11-  Aircraft manufacturers

Lesson 12 -  Aircraft types 

Module 7 - Airfares and Ticketing Level 1

Module 8 - Sabre Airline & Travel Reservation System 

Module 9  (Part 1)- The Elements of Professional Business Travel 

Part 1 - You will start of with the leading Business Travel Computerised Simulated Reservation course  - Sabre emulator including the following lessons:

• Lesson 1 - Introduction to Sabre 
• Lesson 2 - Encode and decode
• Lesson 3 - Flight Availability, Flight Information, Codeshares, Alliances, LCCs and Schedules
• Lesson 4 — The Passenger Name Record Fields
• Lesson 5 — Creating  and completing Passenger Name Records 
• Lesson 6 — Passenger Name Record Information 
• Lesson 7 — More Optional Passenger Name Record Information
• Lesson 8 — Passenger Name Record Management
• Lesson 9 — Seat Assignments
• Lesson 10 — Seat Maps
• Lesson 11 — Rental Car Reservations
• Lesson 12 — Misc. Car Displays, Rule Displays and Policy Displays
• Lesson 13 — Hotel Reservations
• Lesson 14 — Hotel Search Qualifiers and Optional Sell Fields
• Lesson 15 — Fare Displays and Fare Rules
• Lesson 16 — Itinerary Pricing
• Lesson 17 — Ticketing
• Lesson 18 — Queues
• Lesson 19 — Queue Tasks
• Lesson 20 — Currency Conversion and Other Miscellaneous Functions
• Lesson 21 — Format Finder
• Lesson 22 — Global Distribution System to Departure Control System

Module 10 (Part 2) - The Elements of Professional Business Travel 

Part 2 - You will then continue with the Business Travel Professional Modules, which will entail of the following aspects

Lesson 1 - Sign onto & off onto Sabre encode and decode cities, airports & airlines
Lesson 2 - Display Passenger Name Record
Lesson 3 - Check timetables schedule and availability
Lesson 4 - Check passenger return availability and airline alliances
Lesson 5 - Create a Passenger Name Record to complete booking
Lesson 6 - Display creating a Passenger Name Record
Lesson 7 - Complete passenger details of address, frequent flyer membership
Lesson 8 - Create a Special Service Request (SSR) & Service Information (OSI) fields
Lesson 9 - Cancelling and changing PNR elements
Lesson 10 - Advance seating requests
Lesson 11 - Seat maps and booking specific seats
Lesson 12 & 13 - Display car rental
Lesson 14 & 15 - Display hotel
Lesson 16  - Display Fare types and rules
Lesson 17  - Display pricing itineraries
Lesson 18 - Producing passenger tickets
Lesson 19 -  Producing Electronic Miscellaneous Document
Lesson 20 - Displaying queues
Lesson 21-  Accessing queue task
Lesson 22 - Calculating foreign currency and minimum connecting times
Lesson 23 - Access help system
Lesson 24 - Access Travel Information Manual (TIM)
Lesson 25 - Explain Travel Information Web (Timaticweb)
Lesson 26 - Producing Electronic Miscellaneous Document

There are Quizzes at the end of each Assessment learnt. This computerised reservation training course - Sabre includes a personal log in to sign on and sign off the Sabre emulator reservation system to gain access and start training.

Module 11 - Preparing for Travel Industry Employment

The course includes:

• An agent sign on and sign off login
• 150 hours of hand-on interactive time on simulated systems allocated time to complete your course within 6 months
• 6 months access to access your account and practice outside of your course
• Lessons and Drills (Quizzes) with immediate feedback on interactive training
• Student Workbook to enhance, reinforce and practice your training 
• Final assessment on the entire course
• An official industry worldwide recognised Certificate of Global Distribution System Training from Viasinc.
• Your course includes a refurnished Columbus World Travel Atlas
• Dedicated tutor with continuous support & guidance throughout your course

Certification 

An official industry worldwide recognised Certificate of Global Distribution System Training from Viasinc.  This is a professional certification recognised by the Travel  industry in both Leisure and Business Sectors. 

WELCOME TO THE WORLD OF PROFESSIONALISM FOR THE TRAVEL INDUSTRY!