Travel Agent - Business Studies
This course opens the way to a number of posts in the tourism industry: travel agencies, tour operators, airline companies, shipping lines, tourist offices and hotels. The training is assured by experts in each field, including all the elements essential to the market requirements.
Titles prepared :
- Travel Agent Diploma
- IATA/UFTAA International Travel and Tourism Foundation Diploma, issued by IATA/UFTAA
- Business Diploma
Entry requirements :
completion of secondary education. Good knowledge of English and French and/or Spanish is required in order to retain the bilingual or trilingual programme.
The school is accredited as an IATA/UFTAA authorised Training Centre (ID: CH-ALC-2-97-001), preparing students for the International Travel and Tourism Foundation Diploma.
Duration :
10 or 20 months depending on educational background (September to June), full-time course.
Program:
- Air Transportation and Passenger Tariffs
- Galileo (electronic reservations)
- Management - Marketing - Sales Techniques
- Travel Industry : Ground- and Sea Transportation
- Touristic Geography
- English
- Commercial correspondence
- French (all levels)
- Typewriting on PC / Office Automation
- Accounting
- Office Techniques / Internet / E-mail
- Computer Studies (Windows - Winword - Excel)
- General Principles of Law Options Spanish language
- French commercial correspondence
- Spanish commercial correspondence
Fees:
- Registration : SFr. 375.-
- Tuition : SFr. 1'045.- to SFr. 1'295.- per month
- Books : SFr. 450.- (approx.)
- IATA/UFTAA inscription: SFr. 625.- (approx.)
Entry date :
September 9, 2009
P.S. Students having already completed the requirements for a Secretarial- or Business Diploma may enrol for tourism subjects only (see the Travel Agent section).
