The Job with Joe Amaral
Age: 49Role: Leisure Travel Specialist, C-TravelWhat is your job? Booking leisure trips, corporate trips, groups, hotels,rail, cars, tours, cruises, securing visas, passport renewals, ESTA approvals.What is your favourite part? Receiving gratitude calls/emails/gifts from clients thanking me for a job well done, having had a great cruise/tour/vacation and coming back refreshed, revived and revitalised. Enjoying the perks the travel industry has offer.What is your least favourite part? Being in an office all day, the stress of visa denials, delayed passports in express mail, airline strikes flight cancellations due weather natural disasters. Crazy way the airlines chop/change fares with fuel surcharges and seat sales.What is your most interesting experience at work? Sitting at my desk recently and being totally caught off guard when presented with a ballon and camera crew and being told I was a finalist in the Belco VIP awards airline/travel agent category.What would you be doing otherwise? Sitting under a coconut tree mixing drinks, I just received my bartender certification - gold status from the Bermuda College.If you know someone who uyou would like to see featured in The JOb, contact Alex Wright at awright[AT]royalgazette.bm