Starting out
her career as a travel agent, Ms Klein transitioned into travel marketing whilst working with Pinpoint — a MasterCard company — where she spent seven years working with some of the largest loyalty and rewards programs in Australia, including Westpac, Macquarie Bank and ANZ, before launching her own business.
People who have always enjoyed interacting with others and have a knack for or desire to learn about other people, places, and things should strongly consider
a career as a travel agent.
Not exact matches
Daly said the demise of many brick - and - mortar agencies is contributing to the lack of public awareness, because they were a good way to expose consumers to
travel agents as both a service and a possible
career path.
«The biggest obstacle right now is an overall [lack of] awareness for the value of a
travel agent as a resource and
as a
career path,» Daly said.
«Small ship cruising has been in my blood since first starting in the industry in 1979, and working with
travel agent partners stands
as a mainstay of my
career.»
When he is not doing freelance writing, he is developing a
career as a
travel writer; looking for an
agent and a publishing deal for a
travel book he is writing; and aiming to set up his own
travel - related business venture.
Before his
career as an
agent, he spent his early twenties in a variety of different industries that awarded him the opportunity to
travel and meet people all around the globe.