Pet Travel Service Provider Career Profile
- Career Name - Pet Travel Service Provider
- Category - Business
- Skills Required - Life skills 40% - Career skills 60%
- Basic School Subjects - Business Studies, Language, Biology
- Minimum Required Education - High School
- Species Worked With - Cats, Dogs, Critters, Birds, Fish, Reptiles, Amphibians, Arachnids
- Level of Interaction with the Animals - Direct
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UPDATED:
23 June 2023
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What is a pet travel service provider?
A pet travel service provider is a person who uses knowledge of global transport methods and regulations to help pet owners transport their pets across borders.
Alternative Names
The career can also be known as:
- Pet relocation specialist
- Pet Travel Agent
- Pet Travel Consultant
- Pet Mover
Career Categories
The Pet Travel Service Provider career can be found within the following OZT career categories:
- Business
Increasing Travel?
More than two million pets fly each year on American air carriers alone
Mountain of Paperwork?
Just like you need a passport, your pet needs travel documents, too.
What does a Pet Travel Service Provider do?
Groups of animals a Pet Travel Service Provider works with
What is the level of Interaction with the Animals?
- Directly - A person works directly with the animals with some form of physical contact at least once every few days
- Indirectly - The career doesn't require direct or physical contact at all.
What does a Pet Travel Service Provider focus on?
The primary focus of pet travel service providers is to assist a client in the arrangement of safe and legal transport and relocation pets.
With who does a Pet Travel Service Provider work?
Besides working with all of the animals, Pet Travel Service Providers will need to interact with other people while doing their daily tasks. The people might include fellow staff members or the public.
Fellow staff might include:
- Supervisors/Managers
- Operational staff, such as Human Resources, Finance and Maintenance
Sales Staff
What are the daily tasks of a Pet Travel Service Provider?
- Discuss brief with clients
- Do research on destination country and legal requirements
- Arrange for veterinary checks, vaccines and paperwork
- Arrange for possible quarantine facilities on arrival at country of destination
- Contact and arrange for the best kind of transport (flight or road transport)
- Discuss final arrangements with clients and collect pets to start the transport
- Administration and filing
Work conditions of a Pet Travel Service Provider
Where does a Pet Travel Service Provider work?
Environment –
Travel service providers mostly work indoors in an office setup. They may also work via their cars/vans in collecting the pets.
Places of Employment –
Most travel service providers work for existing pet travel consultancies (whether small or large). In this case, the tasks or functions of each person may differ according to their contracts. In very few cases an individual might start his/her own consultancy.
What is the average annual salary of a Pet Travel Service Provider?
On average the income per year is around $65,000. This will differ from country to country, and the seniority of the person within an established consultancy.
Can a Pet Travel Service Provider be promoted?
Business owners don’t have promotion opportunities.
But if you work for a large travel agency as an employee, then advancement in the field typically depends on work experience. The levels of each promotion might differ from organization to organization, but generally are the following:
Intern > Junior Consultant/Agent > Senior Consultant/Agent > Supervisor
What kind of difficulties can a Pet Travel Service Provider face?
The most difficult part is always to get your services noticed by future clients. They may also work long hours and over weekends and holidays to finish work within tight deadlines.
Future growth and Possibilities
With the constant positive growth in the number of pets and new pet owners, there will always be a growth in the number of businesses associated with pets.
Which Skills are required by a Pet Travel Service Provider?
The skills required for a career as a pet travel service provider can be divided into two very important groups. The first is the group containing life skills, which are the core skills that are necessary or desirable for full participation in everyday life. The second group is career skills, or the specific skills required to allow a person to enter and operate effectively within a specific career. Some or maybe even all of the life skills can assist in strengthening the career skills, and they might even be the same for specific careers.
Life Skills
- Self-awareness
- Empathy
- Critical thinking
- Creative thinking
- Decision making
- Problem Solving
- Effective communication
- Interpersonal relationship
Career Skills
- Good business knowledge
- Excellent customer service skills
- Good health and physical fitness
- Excellent computer literacy
Which Subjects must I have at School to help prepare for this career?
Business studies will be a very important subject to have as you finish High School. It will help you to understand the important factors in running a business.
Language is important to give you a good understanding and command of the way you can and must communicate with clients and foreign government agencies.
Biology will be an important subject to help you understand more about the animals you will be working with.
The subjects you choose at school are important as they lay the foundation for further studies at college or university. While still at school, it’s also important to learn more about the animals you will work with, as well as gain some experience.
OZT has a list of various tertiary institutions where you can study further, after school. Each of these institutions also have their own Group page on OZT where you will find the exact subjects they require of you to have passed in school. Keep these requirements in mind, and discuss it with your school, guidance counselor and parents to ensure that you are prepared!
What will I need to Study to become a Pet Travel Service Provider?
Minimum Requirements
To become a pet travel service providers requires a High School certificate as a minimum qualification. This is mainly due to the fact that most of the training and skills required, will be gained in-house while working. Some consultancies might require a College Diploma as a minimum, and especially for more senior positions.
Study Focus
Major –
If you do want to study further, then a focus on import/export, transport management or logistics will be beneficial.
Short Courses –
There are several good courses to help strengthen knowledge and skills, such as pet first aid, communication, protocol etc.
Study Duration
The duration of a College Diploma can be up to 3 years. Short Courses are usually between a few weeks and a year.
Possible Career Preparation Paths
If this is your dream career that you want to pursue, then it’s important to plan the way forward.
Why is planning important?
To ensure that you understand the requirements for your career, and that you are always prepared for the next step on the road towards your dream. A Preparation Path is like your road map to where you want to be.
Possible Paths:
Possible Combined Career Paths
It is possible to sometimes combine two or more related careers. This normally happens when you study and practice a specific main career, but the knowledge and experience gained also help you to have a paying hobby or secondary income career.
Possible Alternatives (there are a lot more):
Stepping Stone Career
Being a pet travel service provider can also be used as a stepping stone career. A stepping stone career is one which is used to help you get to another career, normally because the other career is too difficult to reach (sometimes due to things like high fees etc).
You can begin as an intern after basic short courses and expert guidance (maybe working under a mentor). The money made can then be used to pay for studies towards a promotion or another career, and the experience helps in gaining knowledge. One paying to help get to the other.
Some of the possible paths:
Training and apprenticeship
Even though it is important to study to get into some of the animal careers, most of the skills you will need as a Pet Travel Service Provider will be acquired through practice. This means that you will learn how to perform some of the daily tasks by actually doing it a few times and learning the steps.
In some cases entry level positions require training sessions even before you are allowed to actually perform your job duties. These sessions are offered by the place of employment, after you have successfully applied.
Apprenticeship is also possible where you need to learn skills from a more senior cartoonist or expert.
Join the Pet Travel Service Providers Group in the OZT Community to learn more and even interact with the educational institutions that will help you secure your dream career!
Average level of education of all the people who enter the career
Licenses, Certificate, Registration and Professional Associations
Certain animal careers require some form of legal certification to prove that you can indeed do the work, and work with the necessary equipment.
Although not required by law, certifications may help workers establish their credentials and enhance their skills.
Learn more about requirements by joining OZT Community.
Professional Associations
Where can I study further?
All of the above information will help you understand more about the Career, including the fact that there are different paths to take to reach it. But if you are almost done with High School (Grades 11 or 12), you also need to start thinking about further studies, and WHERE you will study.
See the List of Universities, Colleges and Online Training Academies who offer courses towards international travel.
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