The Virgin Atlantic/GTMC Fares & Ticketing Courses have been developed by some of the travel industry’s top course writers. The result is a fresh contemporary approach and a thoroughness for which Virgin is famous. The objective is to provide training programmes leading to valuable qualifications that demonstrate professional competence on the part of the holder.

These are qualifications that not only improve the promotion and employment prospects of the student, but also help build the staff skills-base that will ensure the long term continued expansion of the wider tourism and travel sectors.

Launched in 2003, the courses set the standard in manual Fares and Ticketing training for people who want to enhance their travel industry skills or join the travel industry.

Click here for a link to the qualification specification.

Programmes overview

VA-2 has been designed to give you a thorough understanding of fare construction principles, building on your VA-1 knowledge with step by step stages of new principles of fare construction, which enables you to calculate and recognise more complex fares.

Course objectives

On completion of this module, students will be able to:

• Construct fares for multi-sector journeys, applying the mileage system, higher intermediate points and minimum fare checks.
• Apply add-ons to construct unpublished fares.
• Identify differing fare types and their characteristics.
• Calculate fares for journeys with surface sectors.
• Calculate fares for journeys involving side trips.
• Assess fares for journeys involving different classes of service.
• Construct special fares for multi-sector journeys with and without surface sectors.
• Complete automated and manual fare calculation areas in detail.

Duration & Cost

Option 1: 
2 hours X 2 days per week for 6 weeks: £390.00 + £50 one-off Registration Fee

Option 2: 
Saturday, 10:15am to 12:30pm for 12 weeks: £390.00 + £50 one-off Registration Fee

English Language requirements

If English is not your first language, you will need to demonstrate the following levels of proficiency in English language:

• Cambridge IELTS (Academic Test): 6.0 or above (no less than 5.5. in any skill)
• Cambridge English (Advanced): Grade C or above (no less than 'weak' for any skill)
• Pearson Test of English (PTE Academic): 55 or above (No less than 51 in any skill)

If you do not hold an English language qualification, you can study the IELTS English course with us.

For more information or advice on English language requirements, please call our friendly Admissions Team on +44 (0) 208 947 1338 or email: This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.

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The Virgin Atlantic/GTMC Fares & Ticketing Courses have been developed by some of the travel industry’s top course writers. The result is a fresh contemporary approach and a thoroughness for which Virgin is famous. The objective is to provide training programmes leading to valuable qualifications that demonstrate professional competence on the part of the holder.

These are qualifications that not only improve the promotion and employment prospects of the student, but also help build the staff skills-base that will ensure the long term continued expansion of the wider tourism and travel sectors.

Launched in 2003, the courses set the standard in manual Fares and Ticketing training for people who want to enhance their travel industry skills or join the travel industry. Centres can run any of the flight booking courses below.

Click here for a link to the qualification specification.

Programmes overview

VA-1 introduces you to the world of the travel industry. By using extracts from selected industry publication, students will be taught how to price and document various itineraries, according to the customer’s requirements.

Course objectives

On completion of this module, students will be able to: 

• Define IATA geographical areas and Global Routing Indicators.
• Calculate fares applying the fundamental principles of the mileage system.
• Identify differing fare types and their characteristics.
• Select the lowest applicable fare for point to point itineraries with reference to fare rules.
• Interpret various airline codings.
• Construct fares using NUCs and the IATA Rates of Exchange for a range of currencies.
• Identify all automated tickets, from tickets to ATBs and OPTAT/TAT and interpret all relevant information.
• Interpret all MPDs/MCOs.

Duration & Cost

Option 1: 
2 hours X 2 days per week for 6 weeks: £390.00  + £50 one-off Registration Fee

Option 2: 
Saturday, 10:15am to 12:30pm for 12 weeks: £390.00  + £50 one-off Registration Fee

English Language requirements

If English is not your first language, you will need to demonstrate the following levels of proficiency in English language:

• Cambridge IELTS (Academic Test): 6.0 or above (no less than 5.5. in any skill)
• Cambridge English (Advanced): Grade C or above (no less than 'weak' for any skill)
• Pearson Test of English (PTE Academic): 55 or above (No less than 51 in any skill)

If you do not hold an English language qualification, you can study the IELTS English course with us.

For more information or advice on English language requirements, please call our friendly Admissions Team on +44 (0) 208 947 1338 or email: This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.

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About the qualification

This English qualification was originally developed by the Confederation of Tourism & Hospitality (CTH), a UK-based global awarding body for Tourism and Hospitality qualifications. CTH is approved and regulated by Ofqual

To work in many international Tourism and Hospitality environments it is often essential that candidates have a competent level of English. Through the completion of this qualification, learners give themselves an effective entry route into the industry or academic progression.

Aims of the qualification

The aims are to provide a qualification that:

• provides students with a range of communication and study skills that can be used both in academia and in a vocational context;
• provides for an effective academic progression route;
• provides for an entry route into the tourism and hospitality industry.

Entry requirements

The entry requirements below are intended for guidance only as applicants may apply with a wide variety of backgrounds and qualifications.

Centres will assess all applicants to ensure they are able to meet the demands of the course.

Recommended entry requirements

Completed full time secondary or high school education up to age 16.

This course is ideal for learners who have completed full time secondary or high school education up to age 16; however, applicants may register with a wide variety of backgrounds and qualifications.

Candidates must achieve 

• All 3 mandatory units, providing 39 credits i.e. a total of 39 credits

Mandatory units

• English for working in a restaurant (EWR)
• English for working in hotels and tourism (EWHT)
• Travel English (Travel English)

Duration

12 weeks

 
Course Fee

£1,800.00

Registration fee: £50 

This is a substantive management programme, typically delivered over a nine month period in the case of full-time students. CTH Level 4 courses combine practical career-based elements with a number of essential underpinning management disciplines that will be invaluable as the individual’s career progresses. The course is therefore an ideal preparation for immediate employment in the sector.

Alternatively students may use it as a pathway to advanced study, typically progressing on to the CTH Level 5 Advanced Diploma. Since the Level 4 Diploma is designed to be broadly equivalent to that of the first year of a bachelor’s degree, students may use the qualification to apply for credit entry to a number of bachelor degree programmes at selected universities worldwide.

This management programme comprises 7 mandatory units totalling 145 credits. Minimum guided learning hours are 835 and assessment is by a combination of closed book written 2.5 hour examination or assignment/work assessment.

Students can achieve the guided learning hours in combination of face to face classroom interactions, attending seminars, visits to hotels, self-study and group study as well as research work.

Click here for a link to the qualification specification.

Admission requirements

Students must have completed secondary education at AS level with a minimum age of 17 years and have the following English proficiency: Minimum English IELTS 5.5 or an approved equivalent. Students who do not satisfy the English language requirement may choose to combine this programme with CTH’s Certificate in English for Hospitality & Tourism (Levels 1 & 2).

Candidates must achieve 

• All 7 Mandatory units, providing 145 credits i.e. a total of 145 credits, of which 55 credits are at level 3 and 90 credits are at level 4

Mandatory units

• Rooms Division Operations (RDO)
• Rooms Division Supervision (RDS)
• Food and Beverage Operations (FBO)
• Food and Beverage Supervision (FBS)
• Finance in Tourism and Hospitality (FTH)
• Customer Service Management in Tourism and Hospitality (CSMTH)
• Global Tourism and Hospitality (GTH)

Rooms Division Operations:

This unit covers understanding rooms division operations (front office and housekeeping departments), front office processes and housekeeping operations.
Assessment: Examination

Rooms Division Supervision:

This unit covers evaluating the effectiveness of rooms division operations (front office and housekeeping departments), supervising housekeeping operations, supervising housekeeping operations and managing the performance of staff.
Assessment: Work-based or Assignment

Food and Beverage Operations:

This unit covers understanding the principles of food production operations, food production operations and food and beverage service.
Assessment: Examination

Food and Beverage Supervision:

This unit covers evaluating the effectiveness of food and beverage operations, developing food and beverage operations, understanding how to arrange banquets and functions, understanding how to supervise the purchasing and storage of food and beverages and the management of staff performance.
Assessment: Work-based or Assignment

Finance in Tourism and Hospitality: 

This unit enables students to gain an understanding of main sources of finance, to understand the relationships between cost volume and profit, to carry out specific costing practices and make recommendations on prices and interpret business performance using recognised tools. It is not an in-depth accounting unit, and this should be borne in mind when planning and executing the delivery.
Assessment: Examination

Customer Service Management in Tourism and Hospitality:

This unit covers the management of customer service operations, managing the resolution customers’ queries and complaints, analysing the effectiveness of customer service in hospitality or tourism and understanding the use of quality systems in the tourism and hospitality industry.
Assessment: Work-based or Assignment

Global Tourism and Hospitality:

This unit covers understanding the size and scope of the global tourism and hospitality industry, the food and accommodation sub-sectors it, the issues and influences affecting it and the growth of global tourism and hospitality brands.
Assessment: Assignment

University Pathways

Students who successfully complete the CTH Level 4 Diploma are eligible to gain progression to a number of universities worldwide.

Duration: 

Part 1: 24 Weeks (15 hours per week, 3 hours per day - Flexible Daytime, Evenings or Weekends)
Part 2: 24 Weeks (15 hours per week, 3 hours per day - Flexible Daytime, Evenings or Weekends)

Fees:

Part 1: £3000

Part 2: £3000

Amity College Registration fee: £50 

CTH Registration fee: £15 

Examination fee per unit: £25