Career in Travel and Tourism

Travel Agencies: These agencies facilitate travel and other services for vacations or business purposes such as information about the destinations, hotel ratings, the cheapest and the fastest mode of transport, visas, foreign exchange etc.

Tourism Department: This department facilitates reservation and, sales and marketing and tour planning. They have dedicated travel guides and information assistants to assist tourists. Information assistants who are selected through a competitive exam which is held by the Staff Selection Commission provide information concerning destinations and plan tour.

There are guides too which are divided into three categories namely regional, state and local. For becoming a guide, one must have knowledge about history, art, architecture and language of the various destinations.

Hotels: Hotels are meant to provide food and accommodation services. This hospitality industry requires professional individuals for jobs related to front office, operations, house keeping, food and beverages, accounting, management and public relations. Here a course in hotel management is always handy for aspirants wishing to enter into this field.

Transport: it’s divided into the following basic categories:

Road Transport: Coaches and tourist cars engaged in tourism industry also provide scope for self employment. Drivers with good conversation skills and knowledge of different languages can fetch quite handsomely.

Airlines: This hot sector of the travel and tourism industry needs ground staff and the airlines staff who must be equipped with a degree in hotel management or travel and tourism. There are numerous career roles as traffic assistants, reservation and counter staff, air hostess & flight pursuers, sales and marketing staff.

Tour Operators: As the name suggests, they are responsible for organizing tours and managing travel and stay of their clients. They carry out tours to well-known tourist attractions and some of them also facilitate the tourists indulge in adventure sports like river rafting and rock climbing.

Holiday Consultants: This is a somewhat new career option in the travel and tourism industry. They not only supply all the information but also trade in the holiday packages. The other tasks they perform are making travel plans, booking the tickets and providing other related details to concerned parties.

Banks: As financial institutions act as backbone for this industry, they need people to assist tourists and travelers on matters concerning foreign exchange. Usually professionals with MBA degrees are preferred for this job. Banks also play an important role in hotel and ticket bookings for travelers.