Travel and Tourism
Description:... Travel and tourism is a wide-ranging sector, involving both personal and business travel and large, medium and small-sized companies. This book describes ways to find work in travel and tourism, together with lists of the most important aspects of jobs int he field. It offers guidance for matching the reader's personality, skills and interests to possible future employment in the industry. It gives details of specific jobs such as marketing and promotions officer, travel agent, holiday representative, tour manager and travel consultant,and describes long-term career paths and wider opportunities. This series gives young people an inside view of how their studies relate to the working world. The text gives an overview of a range of key jobs within the industry and highlights typical training, qualities and skills demanded by employers. It also includes personal diaries from real people, with firsthand accounts of the pluses and minuses of various roles in the workplace.
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