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Have you considered a career In travel?
Founded in 1965, Travel & Cruise Desk is a full-service travel agency that focuses on providing a traditional consulting and booking service to an upscale clientele and those looking for a once-and-a-lifetime travel experience. With a mix of 20+ employees and independent contractor travel advisors who all have their own areas of focus and expertise, our team is among the most experienced in the industry. Our office location in the heart of Lake Oswego is the perfect environment for a driven travel advisor to succeed in this industry. Surrounded by experience, backed by a team of support staff and agency marketing that drives a continuous stream of clients, our advisors can really focus on selling travel and exceeding client expectations. We know that there are many training and host agency options out there for travel industry professionals, including travel schools, hospitality programs, and, host agency training/agreements, and those work well for some advisors. We are looking to work with those advisors who want something more. Those that want to be a part of a tight-knit team of experts, that prefer a true office environment, a space that fosters growth and encourages excellence. Travel & Cruise Desk can provide all of this plus the tools, training, consortia, and supplier relationships advisors need to succeed in the wonderful world of travel.
Whether you are looking to join the team as an employee, or you are interested in joining the team as an independent contractor in complete control of your own business, we’d love to hear from you! For bonus points, let us know if you read this. Please feel free to email info@travelcruisedesk.com or check out the job postings that will be listed below when we are actively hiring (we encourage you to get in touch even if there are no active postings).
For the right candidate, a career in travel is fun, exciting, ever-changing, and rewarding. Our travel advisors are true expert professionals in their craft. Through offering unbiased advice, they are tasked with connecting our clients with travel experiences that match their preferences and needs. Like any profession, it takes time to build experience and there is always something new to learn, but the two common traits among all of our successful advisors are a drive to succeed and a genuine desire to go the extra mile to help others. If this sounds like you, then a career in travel may be the greatest journey you will ever take.
A career in travel is hard work (quite literally… the word "travel" is said to originate from the Old French word travail, which means to work strenuously, toil). Along with the initial reaction of “You’re a travel agent? Do those still exist?”, when explaining our career to others we often hear “Wow… That sounds like a great job. I bet you get to travel all the time”. They don’t know how right they are (about the second statement at least… while our role has evolved over the years professional travel advisors are more relevant now than ever)! While a great perk of this profession is the opportunity to explore the world, the work involved with being a true expert travel advisor is not for everyone.
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