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Operate a Computerised Reservations System (Galileo/Sabre)
SOA THTSOP08B
Travel & Tourism

This module has been developed to meet the requirements of the industry and the standards needed for travel agent licensing. It is packed with practical real-life activities and you will have real industry projects to undertake.

Your course is made up of tutorial workbooks (lessons), assignment projects and printed/online supplements.

You should allow 50 hours to undertake this unit but you do have up to 5 years to complete the unit and graduate (as with all our courses).

When you successfully complete your course you will be awarded:

Statement of Attainment from the Certificate III in Tourism (International Retail Travel Sales) THT30302 for the unit of competency

THTSOP08B Operate a computerised reservations system

From the THT02 Tourism Training Package

This course is accredited by the ATTRP (Australian Tourism Training Review Panel)
The course covers IATA Fares & Ticketing I & II
The course meets the travel agency licence training requirements in all states and territories of Australia

Tutorial 1. Operate a Computerised Reservations System THTSOP08B
(This module is conducted online through Galileo or Sabre)

Section 1: Introduction to Galileo/Sabre

Topic 1: Introduction to Galileo/Sabre Part I
Lesson 1 - Signing On/Off, Encoding and Decoding
Lesson 2 - BF Retrieval, Similar Name Lists, Display BF Fields
Lesson 3 - Flight Availability and Link Indicators
Lesson 4 - Return Availability, Flight Details, Follow-up Availability

Topic 2: Introduction to Galileo/Sabre Part II
Lesson 5 - The Mandatory BF Fields
Lesson 6 - Practice Building Complete BFs
Lesson 7 - Optional BF Fields
Lesson 8 - OSI and SSR Messages
Lesson 9 - BF Management

Topic 3: Introduction to Galileo/Sabre Part III
Lesson 10 - Seat Assignment by Area, Changing and Cancelling Seat Assignments
Lesson 11 - Seat Maps, Assigning Seats by Specific Number
Lesson 12 - Booking a Car
Lesson 13 - Rental car rules and policy displays
Lesson 14 - Hotel Reservations
Lesson 15 - Additional Hotel Entries and Description Displays

Topic 4: Introduction to Galileo/Sabre Part IV
Lesson 16 - Fare Displays
Lesson 17 - Itinerary Pricing and Ticketing
Lesson 18 - Queues
Lesson 19 - Changing Segment Status and Flight Time Changes
Lesson 20 - Currency Conversion and Other Miscellaneous Functions
Lesson 21 - Help and Reference Systems

Topic 5: Galileo/Sabre Final Exam

Section 2: Automated Fares and Ticketing in Galileo/Sabre

Topic 1: Fare Quotes
Lesson 1 - Basic fare quotes
Lesson 2 - Fare quotes with segment and passenger selection
Lesson 3 - No stopover, FOP and country specified fare quotes
Lesson 4 - Working with filed fares

Topic 2: Ticketing
Lesson 5 - Ticketing modifiers
Lesson 6 - Printing tickets
Lesson 7 - Printing tickets from queue

Topic 3: Fare Displays
Lesson 8 - Basic fare displays
Lesson 9 - Additional fare displays
Lesson 10 - North American fare displays

Topic 4: Fare Notes
Lesson 11 - Fare notes

Topic 5: Automated Fares and ticketing Final Exam

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