TravelCampus by Education Systems LLC
Travel courses online
Fort Lewis College has partnered with TravelCampus by Education Systems LLC to offer a Home Study program designed to allow you to learn about the travel and tourism industry in the convenience of your own home and on your own time schedule. It is also a good option for travel professionals wanting to expand their training. The textbooks serve as a wonderful on-the-job resource. We recommend all courses but a certificate of completion can be issued upon successful completion of each course.
The subject content is dictated by the industry. Each course is designed by experts to provide you the knowledge and/or skill necessary to succeed in the exciting world of travel. The price includes textbooks, home study guides and computer software.
The courses currently offered are:
Destination Geography - Western Hemisphere
Destination Geography - Eastern Hemisphere
Travel Reservations
Leisure Travel
Fares and Tickets
Computer Reservations System (Sabre, Apollo or Worldspan)
Complete Home Study Program
Getting That Job!
Destination Geography - Western Hemisphere
Day and Time: Must be completed within one year of start date.
Location: Print Correspondence, Self-paced
Cost: $195
Course Description: This course presents the travel and tourism destinations of the Western Hemisphere studied from a travel industry perspective. Maps are studied with an orientation to location of each country and its major city(s). The course treats physical, locational, and cultural geography as a travel sales product.
Destination Geography - Eastern Hemisphere
Day and Time: Must be completed within one year of start date.
Location: Print Correspondence, Self-paced
Cost: $195
Course Description: This course presents the travel and tourism destinations of the Eastern Hemisphere studied from a travel industry perspective. Maps are studied with an orientation to location of each country and its major city(s). The course treats physical, locational, and cultural geography as a travel sales product.
Travel Reservations
Day and Time: Must be completed within one year of start date.
Location: Print Correspondence, Self-paced
Cost: $195
Course Description: Travel Counseling skills, including sales and customer service are brought up to date for today's travel professional. Product knowledge of air travel, hotel accommodations, car rental, rail travel, tours and cruises is presented in great detail. Application exercises provide practice using the major industry reference materials for all reservations procedures. Sales techniques are included with booking procedures. This course is a prerequisite/co-requisite to Computer Reservation System.
Leisure Travel
Day and Time: Must be completed within one year of start date.
Location: Print Correspondence, Self-paced
Cost: $195
Course Description: Current trends and tourism research in the leisure travel market take this text beyond the basics of travel reservations. The components include the leisure traveler, top leisure destinations, current cruise trends, the present and future trends in tours, including adventure tours and ecotourism. Leisure services such as groups, incentives and travel insurance are discussed.
Fares and Tickets
Day and Time: Must be completed within one year of start date.
Location: Print Correspondence, Self-paced
Cost: $195
Course Description: This course includes both international and domestic airfares and tickets. The faring portion includes terms, rules, fare calculation and transportation taxes. Ticketing includes ticket preparation, interpretation, conjunction tickets, MCOs, Tour Orders, PTAs, forms of payment, charges, refunds, and exchanges. This course is a prerequisite/co-requisite to Computer Reservations Systems.
Computer Reservations System: Sabre? Apollo? Worldspan?
Day and Time: Must be completed within one year of start date.
Location: Print Correspondence, Self-paced
Cost: $365
Course Description: Computer Reservations System - The course covers all the terms, codes, commands, and functionality required to create passenger name records (PNRs), quote airfares, and price and ticket domestic itineraries. These functions include: availability, domestic fare quote, sell, price domestic itineraries, and cancellation and modification of air segments, car rental segments, and hotel room segments.
Complete Home Study Program
Day and Time: Must be completed within one year of start date.
Location: Print Correspondence, Self-paced
Cost: $1200
Course Description: Includes Geography 1 and 2, Travel Reservations, Leisure Travel, Fares and Tickets and choice of either Computer Reservations System Sabre or Apollo.
Getting That Job!
Day and Time: Must be completed within one year of start date.
Location: Print Correspondence, Self-paced
Cost: $52
Course Description: Includes guides and practices to help write an effective resume and sharpen interview skills.
