Travel Agency Manager (ANZSCO 142116)

On the Regional Occupation List and Core Skills Occupation List

From the official Home Affairs skilled occupation lists, as at 2026-08-12. Lists change at each government update — always confirm on the official page before acting.

Which lists is Travel Agency Manager on?

ROL — Regional Occupation List. Occupations on the ROL are limited to the regional provisional visas — mainly the Skilled Work Regional 491 and Skilled Employer Sponsored Regional 494.

CSOL — Core Skills Occupation List. The employer-sponsorship list — occupations on the CSOL can be nominated for the Skills in Demand visa (subclass 482) and the Employer Nomination Scheme 186.

Visas this occupation can access

Being on a list makes the occupation nominatable for these visas — each visa still has its own requirements (points, age, English, a positive skills assessment, and for sponsored visas a willing employer or state).

Processing priority

Travel Agency Manager isn't in any of the ANZSCO groups that Directions 121 and 122 list for the priority sectors. Some of the first group is defined by the job rather than the code: a nominated position directly involved in agriculture, aquaculture or fishing, one that directly supports mining, oil and gas or coal production, or one related to defence. Otherwise the application is processed after the priority sectors. For the permanent and provisional skilled visas, applicants who were in Australia when they applied come next, then those who applied from outside Australia. For the 482, Specialist Skills stream applications come before both.

Priority changes the order in which lodged applications are looked at, not whether they are granted. Who is invited to apply through SkillSelect is decided separately. See all 202 occupations in the priority sectors.

Skills assessment

A positive skills assessment for Travel Agency Manager comes from:

What the assessment actually involves

Travel Agency Manager is Group C, AQF Diploma or higher, on ROL and CSOL — reaching Employer Nomination and the Skills in Demand main stream, unlike most of the other named retail specialisms in this family which sit on the Regional Occupation List only. VETASSESS's own suitable list names only Travel Agency Branch Manager as belonging here, while excluding Travel Counsellor, Travel Agent, Sales Agent and Tour Guide outright — this code is for the person managing a branch, not the person selling holidays across the counter.

Where these applications come unstuck

The exclusion of Travel Agent and Travel Counsellor from this code's own page is the central trap: a senior travel consultant who has effectively been running a branch day-to-day but whose formal title and duties are still framed as sales rather than management risks a mismatch between the nominated managerial code and what the employment evidence actually shows. VETASSESS assesses against the duties, not the ambition behind the nomination.

An honest read on this pathway

This code's employer-sponsored access puts it among the better-reaching titles in this family's retail specialisms, on the same footing as Retail Manager (General) and Fleet Manager rather than the narrower 494-only titles like Antique Dealer or Betting Agency Manager. A genuine branch manager has a real employer-sponsored pathway here; a travel consultant without management duties does not, regardless of seniority or years in the industry.

VETASSESS assesses qualifications and employment separately. Both need documentation that agrees with itself. The Employment History Builder and Document Vault organise each trail before you lodge.

Talk it through with a registered agent

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