You might be planning a career in travel, or just working out whether it is for you. This course was built for that first look: how the industry runs, how bookings work, and what the job is like.
You need no travel experience to start. You have not had to work in an agency, and you do not need to know booking systems or airline reservations first.
This is the cheap, quick way to see how the industry works from the inside before you commit years to it. If you love it, you have a head start. If you do not, you found out early.
It is online and self paced, with no exams, ever. You get 6 months of access and unlimited tutor support in business hours, so it moves at the speed your week allows.
Travel runs on people who can put a trip together and get the details right. The work is easy to picture: taking the enquiry, pricing the options, booking the flights and the room, then sending the paperwork out before anyone leaves home.
The desk job: enquiries in, options priced, trips booked and paperwork out.
Flights, rooms and cars, held and confirmed. The systems side of the work.
Answering the questions before the trip, and sorting out the ones during it.
Package tours: what is included, who is going, and how it all lines up.
Building the day by day plan, with the transport and rooms that make it work.
Roles where these skills are useful, not promised outcomes. Every role is different, and some need more study or experience. Supervisor titles tend to go to people with time on a travel desk behind them, and most agencies train you on their own systems.
Here is what stands out in this course.
The Institute reviewed this course and endorsed it, which means it has been measured against their professional development standards.
Travel agency systems, airline reservations, car rental and package tours. The parts of the job an employer needs you to get right.
Money, insurance and the legal side of travel, covered on their own. It is the bit that turns a good trip into a bad week.
Certificate of Achievement · The Career Academy
Awarded by the college when you finish the course.
The Institute has reviewed and endorsed this course against their professional development standards.
Your certificate comes with a SEEK Pass link. Put it on SEEK, where employers look.
Send an enquiry and a course advisor gets back to you with the course guide and straight answers on whether it fits.
Start anytime. Pay on a flexible weekly plan, or pay upfront in one payment.
Work through the nine topics online, with unlimited tutor support by phone and email in business hours.
Complete the course and receive your Certificate of Achievement, plus a SEEK Pass link you can share on SEEK.
None needed. You do not have to have worked in a travel agency, and you do not need to know booking systems or airline reservations. It all starts from the beginning.
The payment plan is $29 a week, with no deposit and no credit check. You can pay weekly, fortnightly or monthly, or pay upfront in one payment. Enquire for the full options.
Around 90 hours at your own pace, with 6 months of access. You can start today and go at the speed your week allows.
The course is online and self paced. There are no fixed class times. You fit it around work and family, then pick it back up when things settle down.
It gives you the ground an agency expects you to stand on: destinations, bookings, agency systems, and the money and insurance rules. Agencies also look for customer service behind you, and they train you on their own system once you are in. What this course does is put you in the room knowing how the work runs.
The Institute of Hospitality has reviewed and endorsed it. They are an international body for hospitality and tourism, and the endorsement means the course has been measured against their standards.
There are none, ever. You are assessed on what you understand, with tutor support behind you.
It is endorsed by the Institute of Hospitality, and the college is accredited by ICOES and the CPD Standards Office. That is accreditation for professional development. It is not NZQA accredited, so it is not a national qualification. That is a different thing. For entry level travel work it is no barrier: agencies hire on whether you can handle a client and a booking.
Yes. There is a 10-day money back guarantee. If it is not right, you get your money back.
This course is delivered by The Career Academy, an online course provider in New Zealand.
The college has been running for over 15 years and works with more than 25,000 students a year. Courses are online and self paced, with unlimited tutor support by phone and email in business hours. Career coaching opens as soon as you enrol, including CV help and a LinkedIn profile review.
Picture the first trip you put together end to end, flights and rooms and transfers lined up, and the client walking out sorted.