Homeworkers

We appreciate that you may be apprehensive about taking the leap in to homeworking, probably because of the uncertainty around your income in the early months.

Well unlike most homeworking company’s we pay you the commission you have earned from a booking straightaway, we don’t wait for the customer to pay the balance before we pay you.

This means for example that in January when you may be making Summer bookings you will get paid in February rather than wait until May or June for the commission to be paid to you. This makes a big difference for new Homeworkers, as your income will not take months to build up. You should be able to ‘hit the ground running’ as we say.

At Kwik Travel we like to call ourselves the “caring homeworking company”. While we are quite particular who we take on, anyone that becomes one of the team really will find we look after them. This is one of the reasons why many of our Homeworkers are attracted to us by personal recommendation

Kwik Travel was founded and is today a highly respected and successful UK travel business.

The company was privately owned until the business was acquired by the Preston Travel Group in November 2006. In September 2007 The Kwik Travel Group acquired Holiday City Ltd, a well known holiday brand on Teletext especially in Wales and the South West  

The Preston Travel Holiday Group is a wholly owned subsidiary of Rosedale (JW) Investments, a substantial Jersey based trust which owns Flybe Airlines and Blackburn Rovers Football Club, plus other substantial investments within an extensive and diverse portfolio.

Preston Travel Group Holdings own the UK’s largest Channel Islands Tour Operator, Preston Holidays, as well as Jersey Travel Service. They also own Amathus Holidays, who specialise in Greece, Cyprus and long haul holidays

Quality is the key word at Kwik Travel. The focus is on providing a quality value for money proposition to our customers and the highest possible level of customer service, before, during and after they travel. This ensures that our customers stay loyal and even become ambassadors for Kwik Travel, telling friends and relatives of their experiences.

The secret to our success...
As one of the first travel retailers to operate entirely with a homeworking sales team, Kwik Travel now employs over 70 Personal Travel Advisors and has transformed the working lives of many travel professionals. In addition to our pro-active internal culture, we strongly believe in and provide:
• Close channels of communication between our Sales Force and Central Office
• The best IT systems and support
• Round the clock support from one of the best management teams in the business, who are very much hands on.
• Dedicated administration and customer services support
• Strong commercial relationships with the leading suppliers
• A comprehensive range of sales tools including the best 'dynamic packaging' booking system in the business.
• Comprehensive one to one 3 day induction training in our Tamworth Head Office and a comprehensive ongoing training programme. We pay for your travelling costs and your accommodation if appropriate.
• “Support when you need it, freedom when you want it”..

Working with Kwik Travel is all about developing mutually rewarding and profitable business partnerships, with the all-important benefit of retaining your freedom. Join us and we will help you manage your career so that it not only suits you but also enhances your lifestyle.

Please have a look at the list below and assess your suitability for homeworking with Kwik Travel. If you cannot tick all the boxes, don’t worry. You may still be of interest to us. Just call the recruitment line and we will provide an honest assessment of your suitability.

Do you have at least two years' ABTA travel sales experience, accumulated during the last five years working in either a high street ABTA Travel Agency or Call Centre?

Do you know the holiday business inside out? Do you have excellent general product knowledge especially for the Mediterranean, Aegean, Canary Islands and the Red Sea or expertise in a particular market? (Skiing, Cruising, Far East, Gulf, Caribbean etc)

Do you have a proven holiday sales record with the drive and enthusiasm to convert a high proportion of enquiries in to sales? This is not a role for average sales performers.

How good are your IT and key board skills? Do you know your way round Travel systems, the Internet and email?

Are you prepared to work (be available for calls) for at least 30 hours per week, some of which will be evenings and weekends?
Do you have a quiet area in your residence where you can work, which can be segregated to allow you quality time to concentrate on your enquiries?
What are your motives for considering homeworking at this time? The answers may be convenience, flexibility and lifestyle. But do you see it as a business opportunity to start up, develop and run your own business?
Have you given some thought about how you might promote your business to your local community? We will provide you with a comprehensive marketing support package through Teletext and the web, but your friends and family network may also have a role to play to top up your enquiries.
By joining Kwik Travel as a self-employed, home-based travel adviser and selling holidays under our trusted and powerful brand name, the opportunity to develop your own successful business is well within reach.

True success will only come from working together and in return for providing the following infrastructure: we require that you be completely committed to making a success of your career.

You will be provided with all the tools necessary to run your own travel business from home, including everything from your PC and printer to envelopes and stamps.

Our Customer Services team will deal with the vast majority of administrative queries, including customer confirmations and invoices, the dispatch of travel documents and the collection of balance payments.

Making your phones ring…
Employing a range of both established and innovative routes to market, we are committed to delivering high quality sales leads to our home-workers. Join us and you will receive calls from:
• Teletext - both Analogue (ITV & Channel 4) and Digital (Freeview & Sky)
• On-line resources including Kwik Travel’s website and Holiday City’s Website and many other internet based travel partners, such as www.teletextholidays.co.uk
• A sophisticated programme of online mailers, allowing you to build and sustain lifelong relationships with your own bank of customers.
• Free branded website

Being ATOL bonded, you will even be able to create and sell unique, tailor-made packages directly to the public. You will have direct access to uniquely priced bed stock through our strategy of contracting direct with 4 & 5 star hotels throughout the Mediterranean, Aegean and Canaries. In addition we work very closely with the ‘Bed Bank’ market leaders like YouTravel, Trust and Somewhere2stay.com

We enjoy enviable commercial deals and incentives through our affiliation with the Freedom Travel Group. We are totally independent so you’re never forced to sell specific suppliers. You benefit from the best commissions in the industry with the main suppliers Thomas Group, Thomson Holidays Group, XL Holidays, amongst many others.

So if you are passionate about selling travel, have a dynamic get up and go personality and a desire to build a business around your career, your future may be with Kwik Travel

So, if you like what you see and believe our future could lie together, please get in touch today by calling Steve Briggs on FREEPHONE 0800 655 6804 for an honest assessment of your suitability for homeworking.