Continuing Education

Continuing Education

Travel Online Classes

Travel Agent
This nationally recognized Travel Agent online certification training program will prepare students for the Institute of Certified Travel Agents TAP Certification.  Students learn the basic skills needed to operate a computer reservation system.  This program consists of two modules including your choice of SABRE, WORLDSPAN, APOLLO OR AMADEUS GDS systems.  All materials included.  This online program is only offered in partnership with major colleges and universities.

Get Paid To Travel
Do you love to travel and enjoy working with individuals? A career as a professional tour director, tour guide, and cruise host may be the job for you! Tour directors are hired to escort local, domestic, and international tours and cruises, earning as much as $1900 per week. Learn everything you need to start your new and exciting career in travel. We will cover group tour procedures, documentation, and handling emergencies. Gain information on full and part-time career opportunities, as well as prospective employers and much, much more. Don't wait any longer - start today!

Travel Writing
Dream of traveling the world, writing about the places and people you meet? For fiction writers who want to capture the landscape and feelings that are translated into novels or for the magazine writer who longs to write on travel, this class will help you translate what is seen, heard, tasted, touched, smelled and felt (intuitively and physically) into publishable articles and books ands novels. You'll understand the writing styles and methods needed to sell material in today's competitive market (including the how-to's of technical aspects of lead paragraphs, descriptive passages and the uses of interviews, quotes and facts). By the end of the course, you'll have the ability to write for the travel market. So pack your sense adventure, organize your determination and put your keyboard in a comfortable position. If you have a desire to write and a yen to travel, you're a perfect candidate to become a travel writer. Let's get going. Topics include popular styles and types of travel writing that are the friendliest to new writers. Other topics of the workshop include how to write query letters, how to produce articles, essays and books, trends in types of articles and books, grammar and writing skills refreshers, and marketing information.