"Working as a travel agent is a lot of sales work. My clients are always looking for great deals and to plan trips for their families. I am constantly selling different destinations and walking them through features and benefits as related to the trip they are looking for."

Being a travel agent you are technically a sales person as you are selling a customer's desire for a dream holiday. You make the magic happen by selling them the best travel packages and beating the competition. A previous job in sales will show you are confident and persuasive in closing the best deals. If you have previous sales and marketing experience either face to face or over the phone cold calling or following up leads this will hold you in good stead because if you have done telemarketing then you will have no hang-ups about first point of call contacts and you will have knowledge of how the sales and marketing processes work in general so you can transfer those skills to travel related issues.