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Course: |
TRA 210
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Title: | Travel Agency Management |
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Long Title: | Travel Agency Management |
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Course Description: | Provides specific applications of basic busines management principles as applied to the travel agency in an entrepreneurial environment. This includes the legal framework, the office environment, management accounting, budgets, risk management and management theory and practice. |
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Min Credit: | 3 |
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STANDARD COMPETENCIES:
I. Students must identify duties and managerial skills.
II. Teaches students to identify products the agency sells, staffing required to efficiently handle customer base, evaluate salary versus commission and incentive compensation programs.
III. Student must recognize the value of a sales-oriented staff.
IV. Requires student to identify and explain accounting and legal requirements.
V. Students will know the requirements for opening a travel agency.
TOPICAL OUTLINE:
I. Travel Management Introduction
II. Planning and Organizing a Travel Agency and staffing
III. Employee practices and Handbook
IV. Salaries and Incentives
V. Staff Training
VI. Negotiating with suppliers
VII. Marketing Plans
VIII. Accounting
IX. Legal Aspects
X Management of Corporate and Leisure accounts
XI. Opening an Agency
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