When people start selling travel, they usually find fairly early on whether or not they are going to take to this industry like a duck to water, or if they are simply not cut out for such a sales environment. Any people interested in this type of sales training will need to know that you need a good geographical knowledge base, as well as the gift-of-the-gab when it comes to selling products.
If you do make it and find that the travel industry is definitely for you, over time, you can look forward to some truly great perks: obviously though, these will vary from company to company. One of the standard concessions that is available to staff in the travel industry is the chance to travel on standby for a fraction of the price on flights and some other forms of transport.
Hotels and major accommodation companies may well offer huge discounts to travel agents, so that they can experience the services they offer for themselves and go back to work and sell these to their customers. This can be as good as securing a four or five star property for around 20% of the standard rate that is available to the general public; sometimes rates can be even lower than this.
Educationals are also available to some staff who are selling travel. Although, admittedly, most travel companies are cutting-down on these perks quite considerably. This is the very best way of allowing your sales staff to experience the products they are selling. If a company fails to provide this very basic perk, staff can never really have the best understanding of what they are offering their customers.
People working directly for a mode of travel (e.g. airlines, ferries etc) are likely to receive the best type of perks. Often they will be entitled to completely free trips and some companies even offer excellent discount deals to friends and family. These are always the best perks for selling travel, rather than the more generic travel agents.
