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Travel Weekly has now published its latest careers guide, an A4 supplement dedicated to careers and training within the travel industry. This special issue focuses on a range of roles within the industry, highlighting the many positive aspects of a career within Business Travel, Leisure Travel, Airlines and Online Travel Businesses. Editorial includes career profiles of some of the industry's top entrepreneurial leaders, workplace case studies, and analysis of how the industry has changed in the last ten years and what the future holds career-wise for todays travel professionals.
Email recruitment.services@rbi.co.uk to request your copy
Travel Weekly Agent Excellence Awards 2008
Travel Weekly's Agent Excellence Awards are back, and they are bigger and better than ever.
Following last years awards, when more than 40 of the best individuals and agencies in the industry were given national recognition, they are out to do it again.
Travel Weekly want to recognise the cream of the retail travel industry “ whether it is a sales team that provides the local community with outstanding customer service or an agency thats had a good idea and turned it into a new business venture.
Travel Weekly are looking for agents and agencies that go the extra mile to excel at what they do – managers who motivate staff to consistently beat targets, homeworkers who have built up a business from scratch to become holidaymakers first point of call, or agencies that have cornered the cruise market.
This year Travel Weekly are holding four Agent Excellence Awards ceremonies around the country “ in the Midlands, the southwest and Wales, the north and the southeast. They will also be giving out awards in Scotland later in the year.
To find out how you can enter, visit www.twawards.co.uk.
________________________________________Who can enter?
The awards are open to readers who work in the retail travel trade “ specifically retail shops, call centres and homeworkers.
The awards will be given to individual agents or teams. You can either enter yourself or you can nominate someone else. The most important thing is to get nominations in “ you've got to be in it to win it.
________________________________________Why enter?
1. You've put in all the hard work, so why not be recognised for it? You might know your team or agency is the best, but there can be no harm in spelling it out to customers.
2. It is good marketing and PR. Make a song and dance about it and tell your local paper. Who knows how many new customers it could bring in?
3. You will become one of Travel Weeklys Premier Agents, with access to a dedicated website where you can access exclusive offers on training opportunities and other promotions.
4. Winning will look great on your CV and will help build your profile in the industry.
5. If shortlisted, you will be hosted at the awards ceremony that will be held at one of Travel Weeklys regional balls.
________________________________________How to enter
You can nominate yourself, your team, another individual or another team. All you have to do is answer six simple questions about the nominees achievements over the past year.
Enter online at www.twawards.co.uk.
If you are a supplier and would like to put forward an agent, please e-mail emma.jones@rbi.co.uk with the name and contact details of the agent and the reason why you are nominating them.
Make sure you enter by:
Midlands and east of England: May 2
Southwest and Wales: June 20
Northern: August 8
Southeast: September 5
