Travel Consultant (Leisure Bookings)

At this boutique guesthouse in Vanderbijlpark, you'll turn bookings into happy stays. It's the kind of job where doing the basics well every day gets you noticed.

You'll be based at a boutique guesthouse in Vanderbijlpark. Living nearby, or on a taxi route to it, really helps. Weekend work is on a roster, so you won't be on every weekend.

• Check guests in and out on Opera or Protel, and scan IDs and passports.
• Book shuttles, dinner reservations and game drives for guests.
• Balance your cash float and card slips before handover.
• Manage OTA bookings coming in from online travel channels.
• Allocate rooms and pass early check-ins to housekeeping.
• Quote flights, car hire and holiday packages on a GDS such as Amadeus or Galileo.
• Take card pre-authorisations and settle folios at checkout.

• A hospitality or tourism diploma, or 1 year at a hotel front desk
• Calm with an unhappy guest at 11pm
• You can work rotating shifts, including nights
• Confident on a computer and quick to learn a property system
• Clear spoken and written English

• A foreign language such as German, French or Portuguese
• Amadeus or Galileo training for travel roles
• Opera PMS or Protel certificate

• Night-shift allowance
• Discounted stays across the group
• Meals on duty and uniform supplied

• If you speak a foreign language, state your level honestly; many interviews switch languages mid-chat.
• Hotels phone applicants to hear how they sound, so answer unknown numbers politely while you are job hunting.