Consultant

• Serve as a travel expert and professional guide for contracted corporate clients.
• Ensure that every facet of the business travel experience (domestic and international) is well planned, adheres to organizational travel policies, and validates that a high quality of accommodation and transportation is secured for the traveler.
• Conduct exhaustive fact-finding interviews of the traveler or corporate representative to ascertain the particulars of the travel needs, then apply their knowledge of travel systems, airline reservation systems, hotel reservation systems, and car rental companies, Amtrak, etc. to secure cost-effective travel arrangements.
• Maintain proper tracking of the status/entries in the main operational queues (Action, Error, and Cancel), and initiate steps as prescribed in the applicable SOP.
• Initiate cancellation or reservation change processes to their completion, where applicable, to include expedient client agency notification.
• Provide updates, as necessary, to client organizations to ensure their full awareness of information and status related to the pending travel (i.e., itinerary, local customs, passports, visas, vaccination certificates, and other advisories).
• Conduct routine research of travel industry changes, trends, and offerings to ensure they are working with the most up-to-date information when advising client agencies.
• Maintain a superb customer service attitude and demeanor at all times while providing quality service, timely and accurate completion of travel arrangements and recommending value-added services to the client agency.

Travel Consultant – After-Hours

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