Michael Montasser Kolta, Travel Counselor

Michael Montasser Kolta

Travel Counselor

Thomas Cook

Location
Egypt - Cairo
Education
Bachelor's degree, Hotel management
Experience
15 years, 10 Months

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Work Experience

Total years of experience :15 years, 10 Months

Travel Counselor at Thomas Cook
  • Egypt - Cairo
  • My current job since September 2011

- Conversed with customers to determine destinations, mode of transportation, travel date, finances and accommodations.
- Booked tours, hotels, transportation, airline tickets and handling all visa arrangement from booking systems (Online systems, Rainbow Financial Oracle system, and Amadeus).
- Planned, described, arranged and sold itinerary tour packages and promotional travel incentives offered by the company.
- Handled all customer inquiries and technical problems.
- Adhered to all operating, quality, and security procedure.
- Followed up with customers for any changes or new products, and waiting list reservations.

Helpdesk and Training Specialist at Amadeus
  • Egypt - Cairo
  • December 2014 to July 2020

- Providing quality customer support by answering customer calls, e-mails.
- Overachieving on a yearly basis on logged calls and abandoned calls target.
- Over 90% percent yearly customer satisfaction rate.
- Regularly updating CRM with customer records and actions taken.
- Assisting team in problem solving on various customer cases.
- Communicating effectively with head office in Madrid, Nice and Bangkok to troubleshoot customer cases.
- Coaching and training newcomers to our department and acting as their supervisor.
- Became a certified Amadeus GDS B2B trainer since 2015, averaging two courses per quarter yearly.
- Travelled across market to provide on-site trainings on Amadeus products.

Call Center Agent at Al Ahram Beverages
  • Egypt - Cairo
  • February 2010 to September 2011

Telesales and Confirm sales on system (CRM
Telemarketing: Informing our customers by our new promotions and updating them by our new offers and products.
Handling all complains from the customers.

Call Center Representative at Mobinil
  • Egypt - Cairo
  • June 2008 to January 2010

- Handling all customer inquiries about products and services using some applications (Siebel - BSCS - IN Tool).
- Handling all technical problems, sell all company products and services.

Education

Bachelor's degree, Hotel management
  • at Faculty of Hotel management & Tourism. Helwan University
  • July 2007

Specialties & Skills

Hotel Reservations
Tourism
Ticketing
Customer Service

Languages

English
Expert
Arabic
Native Speaker

Training and Certifications

Word - Power Point - Access – Excel -Outlook – Internet - IT (Training)
Training Institute:
ICTC
Date Attended:
January 2008
Amadeus System (Training)
Training Institute:
Amadeus
Date Attended:
November 2011
English Conversation (Training)
Training Institute:
AUC Egypt
Date Attended:
May 2008