538020 Provide tourists with travel information, such as points of interest, restaurants, rates, and emergency service. Duties include answering inquiries, offering suggestions, and providing literature pertaining to trips, excursions, sporting events, concerts and plays. May make reservations, deliver tickets, arrange for visas, or contact individuals and groups to inform them of package tours.
Many agents frequently work overtime.
This may include Saturdays. Fringe benefits usually include paid vacations, holidays, and sick leave, and may include health insurance, pension, profit-sharing plan, annual bonus, or commission. After one year of employment, agents become eligible for a variety of travel benefits. Each year they may take a limited number of airline trips at reduced rates. They may be able to arrange discounts on hotel accommodations, car rentals, tours, and cruises.