Travel consultant: the new touristic market professional
DOI:
https://doi.org/10.5380/tes.v4i2.24769Keywords:
Travel Agency, Travel Consultancy, Travel ConsultantAbstract
The travel agencies are changing their ways of business and how they commercialize their products; that is due to the changes that the globalization and the technology evolution had brought to travel market. One of those ways is the travel consultancy, modality that offers specialized knowledge and reliable information. Seeking to provide a good contribution on the subject, the main goal of this article is make a theoretical quarrel concerning travel consultancy, emphasizing the consultant. The methodology used in this study was the bibliographical research, being used books, articles, specific journals of travel agency and related papers. The results had shown that the travel consultant is an evolution of the travel agent. So that, this professional must have different skills and competencies from those expected by the agents and then this modality needs to be more argued and spread by the managers of enterprises related to the travel market.