Remote Destination Specialist – Customized Travel Planning

Newport Associates
  • Nashville, Tennessee
  • Remote
    30+ days ago

    Job Description

    About the Role

    We’re looking for a Destination Specialist to help clients plan personalized travel experiences across hotels, resorts, tours, and destination-based itineraries. This role is ideal for someone who enjoys consultative travel planning, destination research, and coordinating details that turn a good trip into a memorable one. Strong organization, responsiveness, and client communication are key.​

    Depending on the client mix, this role may support vacation planning, destination research, hotel and resort recommendations, group travel coordination, itinerary management, and travel-related hospitality services.

    What You’ll Do

    • Consult with clients to understand travel preferences, budgets, timing, and destination goals
    • Research destinations, hotels, resorts, tours, transportation, and travel experiences
    • Build customized itineraries and travel recommendations based on client needs
    • Coordinate reservations, booking details, confirmations, and pre-travel communications
    • Manage booking changes, travel issues, and follow-up support with professionalism and speed
    • Maintain accurate client notes, booking details, and supplier communications in internal systems
    • Work with hotel, tour, transportation, and destination partners to support client travel needs
    • Deliver a polished, responsive, service-oriented experience throughout the booking process

    Qualifications

    • Ability to learn travel advising, itinerary planning, hospitality coordination, reservations, tourism, or client-facing service roles
    • Strong written and verbal communication skills
    • Highly organized with strong attention to detail
    • Comfortable managing multiple client requests and deadlines at once
    • Ability to research destinations, compare options, and make thoughtful recommendations
    • Learn how to use supplier platforms, or hospitality/travel systems 

    Preferred Background

    • Travel agency, hospitality, hotel, tourism, cruise, resort, event, or client services experience is a plus but not required
    • Familiarity with leisure travel, luxury travel, destination planning, group travel, or hospitality operations
    • Confidence working in a fast-paced environment with changing client needs

    Why Join Us

    • Opportunity to support a growing travel and hospitality-focused business
    • Client-facing role with variety across destinations, itineraries, and travel styles
    • Collaborative environment with room to grow your travel and hospitality career
    • Exposure to destination planning, hospitality coordination, and travel operations


    Numbers & Facts

    LocationNashville, Tennessee (
    Remote
    )
    Websitehttps://www.newport.associates

    Skills

    • Budgetingunmatched
    • Change Managementunmatched
    • Communication Skillsunmatched
    • Consultingunmatched
    • Customer Relationsunmatched
    • Customer Support/Serviceunmatched
    • Detail Orientedunmatched
    • Develop and Maintain Customersunmatched
    • Organizational Skillsunmatched
    • Presentation/Verbal Skillsunmatched
    • Research Skillsunmatched
    • Sales Managementunmatched
    • Team Playerunmatched
    • Time Managementunmatched
    • Travel Industryunmatched
    • Travel Planningunmatched
    • Willing to Travelunmatched
    • Writing Skillsunmatched

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