Heart Travel: Travel Agency With A Heart

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Heart Travel might look like a regular travel agency, with its colourful posters of holiday destinations and racks of vacation brochures.

But, operating from a space in a community club in Ang Mo Kio, it does not just sell holiday packages: It also trains needy Singaporeans to be travel consultants, though they may have neither prior experience in the field nor the expected educational qualifications for the job.

Heart Travel, the first ‘social enterprise’ in this field, hopes these individuals can find work in other travel agencies after about six months on the job.

Having faced problems landing jobs, Heart’s employees were referred to it by the community club. They are spending six months working at Heart, selling and promoting holiday packages to customers.

— Read more at The Straits Times

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2 Responses to Heart Travel: Travel Agency With A Heart

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    well, we always choose very reputable travel agencies when we are travelling abroad ..

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    always choose your travel agency very well, you would not really want to deal with those rip-off travel agents `*;

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