Avis Asia Creates Training Platform for Travel Agents
The platform will feature training modules, booking tools, and destination and driving guides from both Avis Car Rental and Budget Car Rental.
The Avis platform includes products from its 5,500 locations in about 170 countries, while the Budget platform will have about 3,500 locations in more than 120 countries.
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Avis Budget Group in Asia has launched a new travel agent training platform, Beep, to make it easier for agents to offer services and products from the company’s two brands, TTG Asia reports.
Beep will feature training modules, booking tools, and destination and driving guides from both Avis Car Rental and Budget Car Rental.
Agents will receive commission for all bookings made through the platform, and Avis Budget Group will launch incentives and competitions for agents as the platform expands to different countries across Asia.
Beep is currently only available in English, but will later feature other languages including simplified Chinese, traditional Chinese, Japanese, Korean, and Thai.
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