Position Title: Reservations Officer
Reporting to the Reservation Manager, the main role for this position is making and confirming reservations for guests, handling incoming calls to the reservation department in a professional, efficient, friendly manner in a leading Luxurious Tour Company.
Duties & Responsibilities
- Issuing hotel vouchers and reservations arrangement of local and international tours
- Following up on confirmation of booking vouchers
- Reconfirming guests flight tickets before Safari
- Making provisional bookings for our guests
- Making bulk block bookings with all the suppliers in line with the company and client’s needs and effectively administer the same with the approval of the Tour manager.
- Making all the reservations and follow ups and enter all the information on GRANIT SYSTEM
- Ensure clients’ special requests especially on accommodation & room specification.
- Designing Safari Packages for all tours
- Processing payments for suppliers for accounts to make the necessary arrangements for payments.
- Briefing tour leaders before safari.
- Maintaining excellent communication with all our suppliers, local and overseas agents.
- Booking flights as per Company’s specifications
- Preparing files and itineraries with all the information and advance requesting of all services included in the programs.
PERSON SPECIFICATIONS
Must be proficient in the following areas:
- Degree or Diploma in Tourism Management or its equivalent.
- Minimum of at least 3 years’ of tour consultant job experience in a busy Tour and Travel Company.
- Proficiency in Computer skills especially GRANIT system.
- Must have excellent guests’ service and communication skills.
- Excellent time management skills.
- Attention to details and high level of accuracy.
- Excellent interpersonal and organizational skills.
- Ability to make quick and balanced decisions.
- Can work on late evening/ night shift.
- A Team player.