Travel Uni has produced a new training programme for its 49 courses, including a new specialist course on Abu Dhabi, to encourage more agents to use the lockdown to improve their product knowledge.
Train and Gain offers updated training levels and, for the first time, downloadable badges and certificates for agents to use to promote their qualifications.
New product includes the Abu Dhabi Specialist programme, live on abudhabispecialist.com and on Travel Uni, which includes training modules, agent selling tools and competitions. Equator Learning, which owns online training website Travel Uni, created the dedicated site for the Abu Dhabi programme.
Travel Uni has emailed its database of 60,000 users in the UK with details of Train and Gain.
The launch follows a 35% spike in users in the last three weeks compared with the same time last year.
Train and Gain offers five renamed study levels: member, undergraduate, graduate, postgraduate and master. The qualifying process has also been updated so members can graduate slightly quicker than in the past.
Ian Dockreay, managing director of Equator Learning, said Train and Gain was designed to make training more straightforward and to help travel professionals make the best use of their spare time.
He said: “We have streamlined it so you can get to graduate level quicker. While people are at home, even if they have been furloughed, they can train. When the good times return, they will have a better knowledge.”
After achieving each level, users receive a badge and certificate to download. In the past, agents received certificates from suppliers, tourist boards or hotels providing courses, rather than from Travel Uni.