If you have always thought you would enjoy working in tourism, this is the place to start. It is a short taste of the industry: how to sell a trip, and where to find what you need to know.
Twelve hours and a weekly plan is a small way to test an industry before you commit to a long course. If you love it, you have a head start. If not, you found out early.
Selling products and services is one of the two topics. It is the skill behind a tour desk, a travel counter and every booking that gets made.
Sourcing and using industry information is the other half. In travel, the person who can find the answer fast is the one people keep asking.
Tourism runs on people who can talk to a stranger and sell them a good time. The work is easy to picture. Meeting a group off a bus, answering the question nobody else could, and sending someone home telling everyone about it.
Out with the group. Knowing where to source your information is what makes a guide worth following.
Behind the desk or the phone, matching a trip to a person. Selling products and services is a topic here.
Front-of-house across hotels, attractions and transport, where the industry knowledge is what people come to you for.
Tours, accommodation or transport. Selling and knowing the industry are the first two things you need.
Roles where these skills are useful, not promised outcomes. Every role is different, and some need more study or experience.
Two topics: selling to a customer, and finding the industry information behind the sale.
Here is what stands out in this course.
Selling, and sourcing industry information. Short enough to finish in a fortnight of evenings, and both topics are things you use on day one.
This is the sampler in the college's travel range, so it costs a fraction of the full course and still comes with the weekly plan.
You finish with a completion acknowledgement, 5.5 CPD points and a Credly digital badge. Small course, real evidence.
Course Completion Acknowledgement · Online Courses Australia
Finish and you receive the college's completion acknowledgement, plus a short form credential for this course.
The course is CPD endorsed and carries 5.5 CPD points. They appear on your acknowledgement as proof you keep learning.
Issued by Credly when you finish, and yours to share on LinkedIn or straight to your phone.
Send an enquiry and a course advisor gets back to you with the course guide, current pricing and straight answers on whether it fits.
Start anytime with instant access. Choose the interest-free weekly plan with no credit check, pay in four instalments, or pay upfront in one payment.
Work through the video modules on demand. Marking comes back within 1 business day, and you can retake assessments as often as you need.
Complete the course and receive your completion acknowledgement, your CPD points and a Credly digital badge.
None needed. It is built as a first step for people with a passion for travel who think they would enjoy the work.
Around 12 study hours, at your own pace. Access is lifetime, so there is no deadline.
The weekly plan is $15 a week, interest-free with no credit check. Enquire for the full payment options, including pay-in-four and upfront.
It is if you are not sure yet. You get two useful topics, a credential and a clear answer on whether the industry is for you, for a fraction of what a full course costs. If it is a yes, the college runs a much larger travel course to move on to.
Short answer and multiple choice, with no timed exams. Retake them as many times as you need, and marking comes back within 1 business day.
It is CPD endorsed, which is accreditation for professional development: you finish with 5.5 CPD points employers recognise and a Credly digital badge. It is not a nationally recognised qualification. That is a different thing. As a first look at the industry, it does what it is meant to.
Yes. There is a 7-day cooling-off period. You can switch to another course or get your money back.
This course is delivered by Online Courses Australia, an online training provider.
Its courses are designed with institutions, employers and industry experts. Lessons run as step by step video modules rather than dense text books, and assessments are built to help you understand rather than to test recall against the clock.
The college is CPD endorsed and issues Credly digital badges with its completion acknowledgements. Support runs through one on one mentoring, tutor help by email and phone on weekdays, and live chat 7 days a week.
Picture the first group you take out, and the moment you realise you would do this on a day off.