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Thinking about a career in travel? Or perhaps you're already a travel professional, but would like to polish your sales and service skills. Maybe you're a student in a travel training program who wants a preview of how to do your job right. No matter your goals, Connecting with Customers: How to Sell, Service, and Market the Travel Product will help you get there. Connecting with Customers features several unique elements: · It compares sales and service excellence practices in the travel and hospitality industry with more familiar examples from other fields. · Because it was written as a…mehr

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Thinking about a career in travel? Or perhaps you're already a travel professional, but would like to polish your sales and service skills. Maybe you're a student in a travel training program who wants a preview of how to do your job right. No matter your goals, Connecting with Customers: How to Sell, Service, and Market the Travel Product will help you get there. Connecting with Customers features several unique elements: · It compares sales and service excellence practices in the travel and hospitality industry with more familiar examples from other fields. · Because it was written as a textbook-workbook, it features all sorts of thought-provoking application activities, diagnostic self-assessments and other dozens of other elements that turn it an interactive experience. · It's written in a style that's casual, accessible and a pleasure to read. Through interactive exercises, vivid examples and engaging prose, author Marc Mancini provides you with practical and powerful strategies to satisfy the travel needs of today's consumers. You'll learn how to: · Adapt the six fundamental steps of sales to the travel environment · Reveal the seven secrets of great customer counseling · Implement 15 best practices used by the world's most acclaimed service providers and that can be applied to the travel and hospitality industry · Apply the six major phases of the marketing cycle · Create a results-driven marketing plan · Decide which types and aspects of e-commerce will help you sell better · Serve the needs of niche markets, corporate travels, group departures and more Connecting with Customers will help you achieve a deeper understanding of not only what sales, service and marketing practices the travel and hospitality business shares with other industries, but also how it differs from them in fundamental ways.
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Dr. Marc Mancini brings to Access a combination of academic analysis and a wealth of real-world industry experience. He began his career as a tour manager at 17 and became one of the industry's most successful and in-demand consultants and curriculum designers. His client list includes Marriott, CLIA, Holland America Line, AAA, Norwegian Cruise Line and the Hawaii Visitors and Convention Bureau. It's estimated that his training programs have reached over 300,000 travel professionals. The former Chairman of the Travel and Hospitality Department at West Los Angeles College, Dr. Mancini was named "Educator of the Year" by the International Society of Travel and Tourism Educators and received ASTA's Diamond Award as one of the seven most distinguished travel professionals in the history of Southern California. Dr. Mancini has authored eight books, produced and hosted 32 videos, created dozens of online training programs and published over 300 articles. His works have been syndicated by the Los Angeles Times and he has appeared on CNN, ABC's Good Morning America and Showtime. He holds a BA degree from Providence College and an MA, MS, and Ph.D. from University of Southern California.