Travel Consultant
Also known as: Travel Advisor · Holiday Consultant · Travel Sales Executive
Plans trips and sells travel packages, matching customers to destinations, budgets, flights and hotels.
What you’d do
A travel consultant helps customers decide where to go and puts the trip together — flights, hotels, transfers, sightseeing, visas and insurance — then sells it as a package. Employers are travel agencies, tour operators and online travel companies. The job is part planning, part sales, and many roles carry monthly sales targets.
- Understand customer needs and budgets
- Build and price itineraries
- Sell packages and close bookings
- Coordinate visas, insurance and documents
How you get in
Freshers join travel agencies, tour operators or online travel companies as sales or reservation trainees. Internships with travel firms during the degree and a short ticketing course help with a first offer.
Salary in India
Fresher salary over the years
middle of the 0–1 yr range, ₹ lakh a year
Fewer than two years of fresher data so far — the trend shows once there are two.
Skills you’ll use
From our guide · a curated list is coming
- Destination and product knowledge
- Itinerary building and costing
- Sales and follow-up
- Visa and travel-document basics
About this field · for freshers
Job openings by year
Is demand growing?
Not added yet.
Competition4
How many graduates enter each year?
BBA graduates in 2023-24 at institutions that reported to AISHE — everyone finishing that degree, not only those entering this role.
Who hires
IT firms, banks, government, startups?
Not added yet.
Where the jobs are
Which cities?
Not added yet.
Women in the field4
Is it diverse?
Share of women among BBA graduates in 2023-24 — the entry degree, not people already working in this role.
At a glance
- Common next roles: senior consultant, product or destination specialist, branch manager.
- Peak holiday seasons mean long hours and weekend work.
- Income can depend on sales incentives, so it varies month to month.
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