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Travel Agent

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

Entry requirements :

a secondary school education and the successful completion of a secretarial- or business course.

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 months (September to June), 6.5 hours per week (205 hours of courses).

Program: 

  • Air Transportation and Passenger Tariffs
  • Galileo (electronic reservations)
  • Agency Management - Marketing - Sales Techniques
  • Travel Industry : Ground- and Sea Transportation - Hotels
  • Touristic Geography

Fees:

  • Registration : SFr. 250.-
  • Tuition : SFr. 475.- per month = Fr. 4'750.- for the school year
  • Books : SFr. 100.- (approx.)
  • IATA/UFTAA inscription: SFr. 595.- (approx.)
  • TOTAL : Fr. 5'695.-

Business- and Language Studies:

In the absence of prior secretarial- and/or business training, candidates are asked to complete the above tourism programme by adding :

  • Typewriting on PC / Office Automation
  • Computer Studies (Windows/Word level 1 and 2 - Excel level 1 or 2)
  • English Commercial Correspondence

For this additional programme of 8hrs/week the monthly fee amounts to SFr. 400.-, or SFr. 4'000.- for the school year + books SFr. 150.-

Entry date :

September 5, 2012

Member of the Geneva Association of Private Schools

Member of the Fédération suisse des écoles privées