With travel branches across Lincolnshire and the surrounding counties, our travel colleagues proudly serve their local communities and ensure excellent customer care for holidaymakers. We have been trading for more than 150 years and we're 100% independent, using a wide choice of operators so we can provide a truly personal approach to finding the perfect holiday for our customers. We're a local name that our customers can trust.
As a travel consultant, you’ll be meeting with our customers to help them book their dream holiday. You must have good communication skills and have good attention to detail to ensure you pick up every detail for your customer. You’ll be responsible for staying up to date with the latest travel news to make sure customers have the best deals.
As an assistant manager, you’ll support the branch manager in the day-to-day running of our travel branches. With your extensive knowledge, you’ll offer the best guidance to our customers and the other members of the team.
As a branch manager you’ll lead the team being an expert in your field with drive and commercial awareness. You need to motivate your team to ensure they achieve their best. You’ll be able to monitor your branch performance and work innovatively to support increased sales.
Click the video to hear what Hannah has to say about her experience working in our travel business.
Click below to scroll through Paul’s career and read how he has progressed to branch manager from completing his modern language's degree and working abroad.
1992 – 1996Completed Modern Languages degree at the University of Wolverhampton including a year studying in France and Germany.
1997– 2001Worked for a bank in Leeds but felt I was moving away from my degree subject.
2001-2005Saw an advert in the paper for Resort Representatives with Simply Travel – and got the job! Worked for Simply Travel on the island of Ithaca in Greece every summer and in their UK office in the winters.
2006-2008I decided to return to the UK full time but wanted to stay in the travel industry. So, I joined The Villa Collection in Windsor as a reservations consultant. After this, I moved on to work for several specialist tour operators in London.
2008-2015Joined Sail Croatia Adventures in Windsor as reservations consultant before becoming reservations manager.
2015Joined Lincolnshire Co-op as travel consultant working at Sleaford and Carlton Centre branches.
2016Applied for and got the assistant manager role at Horncastle Travel Branch.
2021Became branch manager at Horncastle Travel Branch.
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