Featured Job - LUXURY SALES CONSULTANT

At aspire+ we specialise in tailor making luxury holidays to Europe, The Middle East, The Indian Ocean, The Far East and The Caribbean. We only employ highly knowledgeable staff who have travelled to our destinations and experienced our hotels. We are looking to recruit an experienced luxury sales consultant to join our busy team based in North London.

We are looking for a luxury sales consultant who has previous experience preparing tailor made quotations for our up market clientele. At aspire+ the client belongs to you from the first point of contact right up to their return back to the UK. Due to the nature of our clientele you will need to be creative and be able to draw upon all your experience in order to get the customer to book with you.

Ideally you would have had previous experience creating tailor made itineraries, a working knowledge of a CRS – Amadeus preferably, happy to work within a small sales team, be a confident communicator both written and verbal, and superb sales skills.

In addition to the basic salary we offer a very generous commission scheme, along with the oppotunity to travel. Hours are Monday to Friday with saturdays on a rota basis.

To Apply please click here - Luxury Sales Consultant

Are Short Haul Flights Becoming Socially Unacceptable?

With growing environmental concern and our ever expanding awareness of the effects our decision and thus our travel make on the world, is it becoming socially unacceptable to choose short haul flights over the train or car? A number of surveys from organisations such as YouGov and Eurostar, would seem to suggest that it is.

A YouGov survey of over 2,000 people revealed that 37% “agree or strongly agree” that, with the current and future environmental concerns, people will take the train instead of a plane, for internal and European destinations, where possible.

It would appear that the short haul flight is becoming socially unacceptable which is supported by both the YouGov survey and a recent enquiry conducted by Eurostar. Virgin trains have already reported that holiday makers are using trains to get to their destinations instead of flying. Philippa Richardson, communications manager for Virgin Trains commented that: “More and more people are choosing it as a means to get to destinations they might have previously gone to by car or plane.”

This view is only strengthened by recent news that the London Assembly passed a motion this March, which banned its members from travelling by air to any destination in the UK, or Paris and Brussels, on assembly business.

The Majority Believe Smoking Should Be Banned on Cruises

According to a new survey the majority of people, 68 per cent, believe that British cruise ships should follow UK law and ban smoking on boards there ships. Whatever else can be said however, it was apparent from a survey conducted by cruises.co.uk of 5,500 people, that cruise customers were confused about the policies and laws about smoking aboard cruise ships as they stand.

As it stands British Law does not apply to cruise ships either docked or travelling in international waters. Because of this cruise ships are at liberty to decide their own smoking policy and may vary.

What is clear, however, is that people feel some sort of unified policy or code would benefit everyone, both cruise customers and staff alike. With 53 per cent of people believed that cruise ships should not be able to customise their own policies and 68 per cent believing that smoking should be banned in enclosed public spaces, as British law states. 74 per cent of people also believe that smoking should be banned in bars and lounges onboard cruise ships to protect the staff.

So, now we’re wondering, what do you think? Do you agree or disagree? Do you think there should be a complete ban or a partial one? Do you believe that British cruise ships should up hold British law? Or do you think that they should be able to continue setting their own policies, as they do now?

Increased Demand for Long-Haul Holidays Expected

It looks like there will be an increased demand for long-haul holidays this 2008. A favourable current exchange rate means that there is likely to be an increase in the number of Brits taking long-haul holidays to go in search of sunshine, according to industry research.

The Post Office stated that sterling has gained ground over 2007 in long-haul destinations and has fallen slightly against the Euro. In fact it would appear that despite the economy scares and wall street madness the pound has gone from strength to strength. It’s up against the US dollar, Jamaican dollar, Barbados dollar and South African rand

Plus the Open Skies agreement between the EU and America is predicted to lead to falls in cost of trans-Atlantic flights and increased the number of British fliers heading off to the USA on their long-haul holidays.

Looks like, with everyone planning a jet-setting holiday this year, now would be the perfect time to make the career switch to the travel agent job you always wanted or maybe hop aboard as cabin crew!

Holiday Firm losses battle with insurers over late accident claim

A holiday company specialising in trips to Greece which failed to inform its insurers of an accident until more than a year later has lost its battle against the trustees of a Lloyds syndicate. Lord Justice Rix, Judge of the case, said that no explanation had been given for late notifications of a serious claim.

The claim arose from serious injuries to a 17 year old boy who dived into the shallow end of a swimming pool in the early hours of the morning. At fist instance the judge rejected the insurer’s defence and held that they had elected to deal with the claim that waived their right to reject liability. However, the court of appeal held that failure by insurers to reserve their rights when making initial investigations into late claims was not in itself evidence that they had waived their rights to repudiate liability. For accident claims jobs visit Simplylawjobs/accidentclaimsjobs