Online Travel Training Courses

International Academy of Travel:
The International Academy of Travel (IAOT), based at Waterford Regional Airport in Co. Waterford offers internationally recognised online travel industry training courses. Through the IAOT, you can choose a career in any aspect of the Travel Industry including Cabin Crew, Ground Operations, Reservation Sales, Travel Consultant, Tour Operators and Overseas Representatives. Our distance learning courses can be studied from anywhere in the world.

We offer the following distance learning travel industry courses:

Certificate in International Travel Industry Studies (Distance Learning):
Course Content:

Unit One - General:
Travel Industry Careers, Travel Industry Organisations, Airline Terminology, Airline Abbreviations, Phonetic Alphabet, Airline Two Letter Codes, IATA Airport & City Codes, Twenty Four Hour Clock, Special Handling.

Unit Two - Cabin Crew Member:
Cabin Crew Duties and Responsibilities, Passenger Handling Procedures and In Flight Medical Care, Aviation Authorities.

Unit Three - Passenger Service Agent:
Check-In and Boarding Procedures, Passport & Visa Checks, Passenger Handling, Security Regulations, European Regulations on denied boarding and cancellation or long delays.

Unit Four - Basic IATA Ticketing:
IATA Ticketing, IATA World Geography.

Unit Five - Travel Agent:
The role of a Travel Agent, Selling Package Holidays, Resort/Country Knowledge, Cruising, Selling Insurance, Travel Agency Guides and Gazetteers, Utilising Travel Trade Tools and Consolidator Fares & Systems.

Unit Six - Reservation Sales Agent:
Creating booking files

Unit Seven - Interview Preparation:
Guideline to completing Application Forms, Curriculum Vitae Preparation, Letter of Application, Communication Skills, Individual Interview, Group Interview, Foreign Currency Conversion Exercises, Mock Examination Papers, Team Building Activities.

- Online Amadeus Training - 50 hours:
Subjects Covered: AIS, access type indicators, additional hotel entries, addresses, basic flight availability, booking a car at a passenger's destination, booking a hotel at a passenger's destination, building a complete PNR and ending transaction, cancelling seating elements, car terms, changing and deleting PNR data, changing segment status, displaying the sub-fields of a PNR, encoding and decoding cities, airports and airlines, entering fare elements, fare displays, fare notes, flight sell, follow-up availability entries, frequent-flyer element, general remarks, HELP system, hotel segment modification, introduction to classes of service and basic restrictions, introduction to the PNR, itinerary pricing, miscellaneous Amadeus functions, name element, OSI elements, PNR management, PNR queues, practice building complete PNR's, rebooking itinerary segments, received-from element, retrieving a PNR from a similar name list, retrieving a PNR from the Amadeus database, return availability, SSR elements, seat maps, seat requests and wishes, signing in and out, specific seat request and seat wish, telephone element, ticketing, ticketing element, timetables, waitlist assurance, working through a PNR queue.

- Online Galileo Training - 60 Hours:
Subjects Covered: Galileo HELP, Best Buy, PNR data change and delete, PNR mandatory fields, PNR optional fields, building a complete PNR, car booking (CarMaster), changing segment status, classes of service, encode/decode cities, airports and airlines, fare quote, fares, flight availability, flight service information, hotel booking (RoomMaster), introduction to reducing/dividing PNRs, itinerary pricing, queues, rules, seat assignments, seat maps, sign-off, sign-on, storing a fare, tariff displays, ticketing.

- Online Worldspan Training - 50 Hours

- Online KLM CODECO Airport Computerised Check-In Programme:
This course covers the basics of CODECO for check-in, for passenger retrieval and for flight information. It simulates a live system.

It consists of 4 sections:

1. Before Check-in: How to sign-in and use the CODECO system along with retrieving flight information.

2. The Check-in: Check-in basics.

3. Check-in Variations: Check-in irregularities.

4. Gate Handling: Boarding passengers in CODECO by Automated Boarding Control or Manual Boarding Control.

Practice Cases: Once you have completed the above 4 sections, there are four practice cases to be carried out.

Diploma in International Travel Industry Studies Level 1:
This course is divided into 2 sections - Certificate in International Travel Industry Studies and either Galileo, Amadeus or Worldspan GDS Reservations.