TikTok Being Deployed in the Mix to Recruit Younger Corp Travel Agents
Photo Credit: Agencies are looking for more consultants to help cope with more complex travel bookings and flight disruptions. Unsplash / Mimi Thian
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Whatever it takes is the message today, with social media emerging a key battleground for talent.
Travel companies are getting creative in their search for new talent. It may be one thing to increase salaries and benefits, but two travel management companies want to bring new blood into the industry by any means necessary.
Spain’s TravelPerk has turned to TikTok to recruit the next generation of travel consultants. Like many agencies it needs to staff up to help clients book business trips in these complicated times, with airline cancellations and airport chaos transforming even the simplest journeys into herculean tasks.
"It’s tough," said Jean-Christophe Taunay-Bucalo, chief revenue officer. "You need to get people back that left the travel industry during Covid."
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