The highest professionalism of the specialist is considered
to decrypt the client's dream. After all, many people often do not know what
they want. Can be long talk about the sights of Greece, and a person may want
to go somewhere far away and be alone. It is important to truthfully tell about
the pros and cons of the tour, the country, to take into account the financial
possibilities of the client and to provide independent choice.
The specifics of the profession
Functional responsibilities Tourism management depend on
where he works: in the tour operator or a travel agency. The tour operator
managers engaged in the development and formation of tourist routes and travel
agencies, tend to sell tours to customers.
Tourism manager duties, working in the tour operator:
development of
routes;
preparation of
excursions and entertainment;
Hotel Reservation;
redemption tickets
for scheduled flights;
Organization of
charter flights;
negotiations with the
host country;
registration of
insurance and visas;
forming a package of
stages;
contracts with travel
agencies;
conducting
advertising campaigns;
conflict resolution
with the host.
The travel agents working in Tourism management is as
follows:
receiving calls;
advising potential
clients (in person or by phone);
providing guidebooks,
catalogs, cards;
learning offerings in
the market and optimal selection round on request;
interaction with the
managers of the summer;
execution of the
contract with the client.
There are travel companies that combine the functions of travel
agencies and tour operators.
Pros and cons of the profession
Benefits in Tourism management:
the tourism industry
is one of the most profitable and promising;
the opportunity to
visit many countries;
good earnings. Although income and depends on the season;
excitement, usually
in the field working real fans who not exchange the tourist industry for
anything else.
Shortcomings in Tourism management:
visited numerous
countries, often none of them can not look closely;
a great
responsibility;
very stressful job, constantly need to be in the know
tourists: Do not forget to meet their host country, whether meals are
satisfied, there is no any problems with the staff or the local population.
Often anxious tourists can call in the middle of the night and ask to dispel
their doubts;
a large staff
turnover.
Place of work
The travel agencies or tour operators.
job in tourism travel agency differs from tour operators. In
the first case in the main manager prepares vouchers and leads travelers by the
hand. The tour operator company staff great. Some people book their tickets, a
place in hotels and other visas, others are preparing leaflets and sell ready
to travel agencies routes.
Personal qualities
70% of the time in the travel agency takes customer communications.
Closed complexed, taciturn man is not able to sell any tickets. You have to be
cheerful, attentive and charming. Professional paints the beauty of the resort
and overseas can listen to the customer.
It is important for the manager to be able to quickly
resolve a negative situation, without losing the working rhythm. After all, the
problem of a tourist should not affect the other.
Often traveling on advertising tours in just a week you need
to explore a lot of hotels, their room stock, infrastructure, assess the
excursion program to explore the country's attractions. Here we must not only
have a retentive memory, but still record and structured observation. This will
come in handy later when dusting meticulous customer questions.
Education
An experienced manager of Tourism freely guided in large
amounts of information at lightning speed and combines a variety of leisure
options. Suffering from multiple sclerosis the way in this area is closed. To
sell overseas tour, you need to know everything about the country. The manager
keeps a lot of information in my head. The high degree of personal
organization, gab, plus fluency in foreign languages needed him every day.
When the labor market there was a demand for tourism
managers, universities have reacted to it instantly. Now, almost every
university the specialty, which gives the opportunity to work in the tourism
sector. However, even training in non-specialized public high schools usually
pay.
Career and Salary
Manager career of Tourism starts with the assistant manager.
First, work on your phone, then with customers. Then you can become an expert
in one of these directions. You can take the place of deputy director or
director of a travel agency. The tour operators of career opportunities some
more.