ticket sales agent

Code 4221.3

Ticket sales agents provide initial service to customers, sell travel tickets and fit the reservation offer to customers' queries and needs.

Essential skills

Knowledge

  • cancellation policies of service providers

Skills and competences

  • quote prices
  • assist clients with special needs
  • communicate with customers
  • inform customers of activity changes
  • handle personal identifiable information
  • maintain customer service
  • upsell products
  • process booking
  • provide tourism related information
  • respond to customers' inquiries
  • have computer literacy
  • process payments
  • use global distribution system
  • sell tickets

Transversal competences

  • keep up to date on local events

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Sources

This service uses the ESCO classification of the European Commission and the Mapha Taxonomy developed by OTIC SOFOFA (CC BY 4.0), in an adapted version. Group codes come from the ILO's ISCO-08. See sources and licences