Andrew Tedman Email & Phone Number

Brighton, United Kingdom

• Tailor made Travel specialist.
• Japanese Speaker.
• Expert seller managing the whole process of initial consultation through to itinerary, quotation.
• Responsible for Japan as a destination and point of escalation.
• GDS (Galileo) and expert in holding and securing low fares. Love complicated routings.
• Part of a small team that reacted to the pandemic (repatriation, mitigation). and now grows out of it.

Haywards Heath

• Set up from home with a focus on trips to Japan arranged through own ATOL licence.
• Created effective website and launched social media campaign with PPC advertising on Google Ads and Facebook.
• Other countries in addition to Japan arranged for subsequent Japan clients. America, Caribbean, Dubai.
• Restaurants and other services in addition to travel arrangements booked for Japan bound travellers.

Haywards Heath

October 2014 - March 2016 We left Japan considerably later than intended due to my daughters medical condition. Time spent caring for her and setting up again. Moved to Sussex from Bucks to pursue educational opportunities for her disability. Lived on savings.

Suzuka, Japan

I have been asked to do other work in Japan aside from teaching. These include looking after and arranging for a large group of motor racing tourists from the UK when they visited Suzuka for the Formula 1 race. This was arranged with a well-known specialist British tour operator. Also a side line in exporting back European rare and sports cars from Japan.

Suzuka, Japan

As a business owner my responsibilities were all encompassing. My purest task each day was teaching the large number of students that we built up. Students ranged in age from 3 years to over 70. We imposed excellent standards and as a result maintained and grew a very loyal group of long term customers. I made ultimate decisions on curriculum, advertising.

Egham

This was a pure sales role and specialised in direct sell, long haul luxury travel. Top selling destinations were the Caribbean, Dubai, Thailand and the USA. Among a large group of people I was the consistently the top sales person or if not the leader then second or third. We tried very hard to out sell each other every day. We used an in-house system.

Chesham

Although my role was sales as we were a small business, naturally I had the opportunity to take a part in all aspects of the business. It was my responsibility to create and look after sales from beginning to departure and any needed customer service thereafter. Our focus was on high value bookings to exclusive destinations combined with delivering.

Australia

This was a working holiday. I worked various jobs to include bank staff, advertising for exhibitions, salesman and fruit picker. It is of course the nature of a working holiday visa to take on many different kinds of jobs. more interesting than the job I did is that I managed to see Australia extensively and also met my future wife here.