To wonder if they still have English travel reps?

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Do young people from England, Scotland and Wales still do repping as a job abroad.
I remember you'd be met by a rep at the destination airport probably an English young person and taken on a coach to your hotel
The rep would stay on the coach and chat to you as the bus went along.
Now I notice alot of Spanish people etc are working for companies in Spain and Canaries.

They don't stay on the coach either, they send you all of with the driver, they stay at the airport.
Not saying it's wrong but just wondered what happened to being a travel rep. Do young people from England etc, still do this as a job?

I've got a friend who is an overseas rep. She's British.

On both our Jet2 holidays (to 2 different parts of Greece) last year the reps doing the airport welcome, despatch, etc were all British, as was the rep in each resort.

Must be a mixture then, did they travel on the coach with you?

In one resort yes, not in the other, smaller one.

We've been skiing with Crystal a few times. Tons of English reps - some come on the coaches some stay at airport

Yes, we’ve had British reps on our coaches, but also some Spanish. Reps in hotels are usually British too. Quite a few of them are older so I’m guessing have been doing it for years.

I used to work for TUI (was Thomson) and heard through the grapevine that after brexit TUI wanted only EU passport holders.

Also since TUI took over British Thomson, they use reps from their other European countries in lots of hotels rather than always British because TUI covers travellers from different countries.

I have noticed a lot more local reps or other European reps when going on holiday now.

You may see older reps because they are local expats and live in the country.

I'm wondering how they're managing since Brexit? 🤔

I used to do a similar job, and I toy with the idea of returning to it part time when the kids are grown. But I don't know if the companies are recruiting British people, or how it would work. It was an American company, and I'd get paid into my British bank account (it was tours, typically London- Paris.)

I teach travel and tourism in an FE college and the job opportunities for our students in this area are so much more limited since Brexit. Some countries will provide visas for these kind of seasonal roles but it is much more common for reps to be local residents now (who may be British expats, which I guess is why there is an older demographic now), local residents in these jobs also benefits the companies as they don’t have to provide accommodation. People who have an E.U. passport can still do it quite easily, so to meet them you may assume that they are British but could have a passport of another country.

Yes, hadn't thought about that, if they live locally, they don't need accommodation.
Presumably they would earn more money though?