The profession of a tourism manager is not just hard work, but also a way of life. Anxious tourists may bother you at any time of the day on their personal phone with a request to help find a voucher for accommodation or return a plane that departed a few minutes ago. If you love people, you are not confused by sales, and tourism itself evokes good associations, then this profession will bring you luck and success.
Instructions
Step 1
First you need to choose a prospective place of work. Use the Internet and look at the websites of various travel agencies. A good website can tell you about the age and size of the company, about its main tourist destinations. Pay attention to the type of travel agency. This could be a tour operator company that sells its own destinations and tours. The second type includes travel agents. Such enterprises are engaged in the sale of other people's tours and do not have their own directions. The third type is the most common tour operator / agent. Travel agencies sell their own tours and tours of other companies. Walking through the websites of travel agencies, you can find information about vacancies. Some companies post forms of CVs on the website, which can be filled out and sent to the specified e-mail address. When you send the questionnaire, be sure to call back and make an appointment.
Step 2
There are both large and small enterprises among the tour operators. Although work here requires more responsibility and dedication, it is much more interesting in terms of career and financial growth. Mastering the profession of a tourism manager with a tour operator company, you can soon go on a promotional tour. A promotional tour is a business trip to another country. You will have little rest, but you will learn a lot of interesting things. Without experience as a manager, you will not be hired right away, but there is a high probability that you will be offered a vacancy for an assistant manager. Eh, this is not easy work. We'll have to lay out all sorts of pieces of paper, call where you don't want to, bring and carry heavy folders. But at the same time, you will always be in business and will begin to understand what is what and make good money.
Step 3
If you are new to tourism, then try to get a job with a travel agency - a company that sells tours to tour operators. As a rule, these are small enterprises employing 5 people. Getting a job as a manager is not difficult here if there are vacancies, especially if you have your own travel experience. But even if you have not traveled anywhere, you can still interest the director of the company. The main thing is that you make the impression of a polite, competent and confident person, capable of interesting storytelling. Earnings will be small, but learn to sell well and gain valuable experience in tourism, which will be useful for your further career development.
Step 4
Mixed travel agencies - tour operator / tour agent are a great way to start small and reach the heights. Here it is possible to get a job as an assistant manager and as a sales manager for agency tours, that is, tours of other travel agencies. By selling tours of other companies, you are less responsible to tourists and your company. And this is only a plus at the initial stage of a career. When you begin to navigate well in each component of the travel package - the main directions, transfers, flights, hotels, and of course, documents for traveling abroad, you will be offered a more difficult, but interesting, in every sense, occupation and decent wages.
