In 2015 The Travel Institute is introducing a series of four month-long promotions to better equip travel professionals with the skills needed to be more successful.
The first promotion for 2015, “Preparing for a Travel Career,” will be held in February with the following weekly topics: “Getting Started,” “Building Your Career,” “Sales and Customer Service,” and “Balancing Work and Home.”
Participants will learn through a series of webinars conducted by industry experts; e-books containing tips, articles, and blogs related to the weekly focus; plus special editions of The Travel Institute’s Hot Tip Tuesday newsletter and Friday Five blog. Additional special incentives and training opportunities are currently being finalized and will be announced in early January, the Institute said.
“Our ‘New to the Industry’ webinar that we introduced in 2014 has been our most popular – sometimes drawing close to 100 participants,” said Patty Noonan, director of sales for The Travel Institute.
Additional quarterly promotions in 2015 include (with working titles): April – "Get Social,” July – “Promote Your Professionalism,” and October – “The Value of Specialization.”
The Travel Institute reports that nearly 26,000 travel professionals took advantage of the programs and services of the Institute during its 50th anniversary in 2014.
Pat Gagnon, director of program development for The Travel Institute, said that CTA enrollment grew by more than 30 percent in 2014.