Tourico reveals 91 percent retention rate for Travel Academy
After a successful first year, travel wholesale brokerage Tourico Holidays’ travel academy will continue indefinitely.
The Tourico Holidays Travel Academy, which launched in January 2014, offers college graduates valuable travel industry training, business negotiation and travel technology skills.
Students accepted on the program receive full benefits, including pay of $500 per week during the 10-week course, housing, meals, laptops, cell phones, transportation and entertainment in the Orlando area.
The company revealed it had a 91% retention rate from last year’s intake with 75 of the 82 qualified travel professionals hired by Tourico.
"The goal of the Academy is to create a comprehensive training program for talented young minds to break into the travel industry with Tourico Holidays, said founder and CEO Uri Argov.
"With this phenomenal in-house program, the high caliber of talent we’re recruiting will be the driving force this company needs to maintain its 30% year-over-year growth for another 20 years."
The Travel Academy will continue four times a year with the first session of 2015 beginning January 19.
This session will focus on technology while the following two sessions will concentrate on sales and product development skills.
"The Academy provides an exceptional opportunity for college graduates looking to get a leg up in a fun, well-paying industry," Argov said.
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