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Travel Business
Management—Career
Opportunities
 Many
jobs opportunities for travel professionals are available as the baby boomers
retire and travel over the next 20 years. Research using
www.salary.com reflects the median expected
annual salaries in Chicago area for the following job categories:
Reservation
agents $29,789
Customer service representatives $32,093
Counter & rental agents $31,241
Corporate travel supervisors $47,156
Flight attendants $56,752
Experience,
sales ability, and the location and size of the company are factors affecting
salary. The average compensation for travel coordinator is March 2009 ranges
between $37,280 and $50,265.
Additionally employees of the travel industry usually get reduced rates on
products sold in the travel industry including, cruises, car rental,
accommodations, tour packages an transportation. These benefits for themselves
and their families attract many people to this occupation.
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Our Grads are Going Places
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Where can a Moraine Valley Travel Business Management or Meeting
Planner certificate or degree take you?
Anywhere you want to go!
“This industry is not just working for the airlines and travel
agencies,” said Mary Beth Walsh, professor and program coordinator of
Travel Business Management, Meeting Planning and Special Events at
Moraine Valley.
“It’s also about helping corporations negotiate prices and monitor
employees’ travel expenses. The travel industry is not dying, but
morphing. Sites such as Travelocity and Orbitz are really travel
agencies. The Internet has just changed how and where we do business.”
Roz Stuttley was looking to reinvent herself in the special events
industry so she enrolled in a Meeting Management class through the
Meeting Planning Program. Through networking in class, she landed her
dream job as an account manager for Corporate Meetings and Events at
Chicago’s Field Museum.
“Going to Moraine Valley was one of the best things that happened to me
because I wanted to get into planning events, but I wasn’t sure how to
go in that direction,” said Stuttley. “A guest speaker in class
suggested I look at cultural institutions, and that’s exactly what I did
the next day. Four interviews later, I got the job at the Field Museum.
I would not be there if I hadn’t taken that class at Moraine Valley. It
was definitely the step I needed.”
Adam
Prendergast says Moraine Valley was the gateway to his exciting
career. “I wouldn’t be where I am today if it weren’t for Moraine
Valley,” he said. Adam, a Travel-Tourism Program graduate, works with a
leading global travel management company. “The courses, the teaching and
the overall classroom experiences were invaluable to my career, and now
I have incredible opportunities to advance and diversify my professional
development with our offices all over the world.”
Other graduates of the Travel Business Management and Meeting Planning
programs at Moraine Valley have found work in businesses like Arlington Park
race track, Chicago’s Shoreline Cruises, Apple Vacations, the Chicago
Convention and Visitors Bureau, major airlines, on large cruise ships,
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More information about the Travel Business Program |
