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Corporate Travel Agents Focus on Self Improvement

Aug 11, 2020

For Immediate Release Contact: Douglas Walsh 2 Main Street New Egypt, NJ 08533 E-mail: Doug@hotTraveljobs.com Web: http://www.hottraveljobs.com Phone (609) 752-0991 Fax (609) 752-0992 Press Release Corporate Travel Agents Focus on Self Improvement New Egypt, NJ August 11, 2020: The shutdown in travel has not dampened the spirit of self-improvement for Corporate Travel Agents. In...

Influx of New Leisure Travel Agents Could Be Leading to Lower National Salary Averages

May 18, 2020

The average leisure travel agent salary dropped 7 percent in 2017, as more Americans are electing to become travel advisors. A national survey of about 400 travel professionals shows that the average leisure travel agent salary was $42,875 in 2017, down from $46,101 in 2016, according to HotTravelJobs.com, though this decline may not be indicative of tenured leisure agent compensation, the company noted. Related Articles...

COVID-19 TRAVEL INDUSTRY IMPACT

Mar 25, 2020

The Travel Staffing Group Responds: Through the years, the travel industry has survived many obstacles, including commission cuts, OBT, 9-11 and the economic downturn. With every disruption, we have always come back bigger and better. The COVID-19 is a serious one, but we WILL come back. Our foundation of success was in place and although it will take time, it will return. Many companies have laid off up to 75% of their workforce and...

SKAL NJ Friendship Trip To Scotland

Apr 25, 2019

Scotland 2019 By James Dwyer, VP Administartion SKAL USA Skål International is a worldwide tourism organization with chapters on 6 continents. Skål Northern New Jersey is one of those chapters or clubs and has a mission. For the past 15 years members of their group have visited over 30 clubs in Europe in the spirit or friendship and camaraderie. This April a group of 32 tourism leaders met with members of Skål Scotland. The two...

FINAL RESULTS ON ONSITE & VIRTUAL AGENTS WORK ENVIRONMENT

Jul 18, 2018

Hot Travel Jobs conducts a yearly survey for Job-Seekers/Employees to get a perspective on their experiences in compensation as well as job experiences. Over 700 Travel Professional took part in the 2016 survey, where we asked as one of our questions, “Do you primarily work in an office, as a virtual agent, or both?” We have broken down the responses by both Leisure and Corporate agents, as well as a total industry breakdown for...

UPDATE: TRAVEL PROFESSIONAL AGE RANGES

Jul 09, 2018

The age of Travel Professionals has become an important issue as of late in the Travel Industry. With so many seasoned veterans aging out of the industry and taking retirement, an influx of new talent has been an issue at the forefront of many minds. For this segment of our 2017 Survey information, we’ve chosen to highlight that increasingly important question directly, by measuring the age range of surveyed Travel Professionals. While in...

Hot Travel Jobs Reports On 2017 Corporate & Leisure Salaries

Jun 06, 2018

As we reviewed the salaries reported by Corporate Travel Agents, we do show an overall increase compared to the previous year with the average national salary up by 12%. This is no surprise as we have been predicting a drop in qualified workers as the numbers reflect an overall increase in retirement from an aging workforce. Corporate Travel Agents For leisure agents, you will notice that the overall salary is down by 7%....

WHAT’S MORALE WORTH TO YOU?

May 05, 2018

Retention What a wonderful word, representing so many meanings and applications. Most of my adult life I dealt with the application of retention as it regards to customers. Immensely important was the feat of keeping the customer happy and not letting them wander off to the competition. But in the world of HR, it takes on a slightly different meaning as the retention of customers is inherently called internal customers. Keeping these...

NEWS ON RETIREMENT AND JOB SATISFACTION

May 05, 2018

For this excerpt from our survey, we will be looking at the questions “Why are you unsatisfied with your job?”, a question we added this year in an attempt to better understand job satisfaction levels, as well as the current retirement plans for Travel Industry professionals. In order to answer the question “Why are you currently unsatisfied with your job?” we broke the down the criteria along the most common reasons for turnover. We can...

NEWS ON UNEMPLOYMENT IN THE TRAVEL INDUSTRY

Apr 18, 2018

The most important things to gauge during an employment survey are related to the big questions of unemployment. Specifically, for this newsletter segment, we will focus on two questions: Are you currently employed? and How long have you been unemployed? We’ve included last year’s chart as a comparison as well, to show what differences we can currently see trending. The information we’ve currently gathered breaks...

Hot Travel Jobs in Portugal

Apr 18, 2018

There are numerous words that could properly portray the beauty of the sites we viewed on our most recent SKAL Friendship Trip, but for now I will just leave it as WOW! After finishing up several days of our friendship trip, we left beautiful downtown Lisbon on a five hour coach ride to the city of Porto. A city focused on heritage, rejuvenation and architectural centerpieces and the home of SKAL Porto. Anibal Soares, is President of Skal...

THE JOB-SEEKER SURVEY CONTINUES!

Mar 20, 2018

As we are about halfway through our employee/job-seeker survey, we thought it would be appropriate to share with you some salary numbers we have gathered to date. It is important to understand that on the corporate agent side, the survey is somewhat skewed in the favor of those that are 55 and older. This group is the lion’s share of those responding. The corporate travel manager salary average is coming in at $72,441 per year. The...