[Hiring] Group Travel Planner @Elite Escapes

Role Description

Join Elite Escapes and turn your passion for travel into your next career. As a Remote Group Travel Planner (Sales-Focused), you'll help groups turn "we should all go somewhere together" into a confirmed trip that everyone is excited about. You'll combine destination knowledge, group logistics, and a consultative sales approach to match teams, companies, families, and friend groups with the right destination, accommodations, activities, and travel experience—whether it's a sports team tournament, corporate retreat, incentive trip, family reunion, milestone celebration, or friends' getaway.

• Connect with group leaders to understand trip goals, group size, budget, preferred dates, destination ideas, and must-have experiences.
• Recommend destinations, hotels or resorts, room blocks, transportation options, meeting spaces, team-building activities, and group excursions that fit the group's purpose and budget.
• Turn group inquiries into confirmed trips through email, chat, and phone with energy, accuracy, and a client-first approach.
• Explain group travel details clearly, including deposit structures, payment schedules, cancellation policies, rooming lists, name changes, and travel requirements.
• Coordinate group logistics: room allocations, special requests, group rates, contracts, deposits, final payments, and pre-trip communication.
• Handle changes, questions, and concerns quickly and professionally so group leaders and participants feel supported from first quote through return home.
• Share valuable insights on destinations, group-friendly resorts, team activities, corporate meeting facilities, family experiences, and seasonal opportunities.
• Build post-booking relationships that encourage repeat group trips, referrals, testimonials, and long-term partnerships.

Qualifications

• Interest in group travel, sports travel, corporate meetings and incentives, family reunions, or destination celebrations.
• Travel-industry, sales, hospitality, event planning, customer-service, or booking experience is preferred—but not required. Zero experience is welcome.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills, with the confidence to guide group leaders toward decisions.
• Strong organization skills and comfort managing multiple group quotes, rooming lists, contracts, follow-ups, and client details.
• Comfort with technology, online booking platforms, CRM systems, and AI tools—we will train you on the rest.
• A genuine passion for bringing people together through travel and creating memorable shared experiences.

Benefits

• Fully remote work with the flexibility to build your schedule around your life.
• Comprehensive onboarding and training on group travel, supplier platforms, negotiation and sales conversations, and travel planning.
• A collaborative, supportive team atmosphere with colleagues who want to see you succeed.
• The opportunity to grow into specialties such as sports team travel, corporate meetings and incentives, family reunions, milestone celebrations, or luxury group getaways.
• Clear paths toward leadership and higher earning potential.