Travel & Tourism Professional Overview
If geography was your favourite subject in school and you know the entire globe like the back of your hand, then we have some exciting news for you. As a travel guide you could fulfill your dreams of seeing the world and meeting different people on the way.
Just imagine you'll be travelling in the luxury of Palace On Wheels, soaking in the sun on a beach in Goa or even dancing with some Irish belles and collecting a thick pay packet for all this! Interesting? Here's more…
In a travel agency, you could work as a Travel Counsellor. Here, you'll provide information and guidance on tourist locations and also handle ticketing and reservation. You'll guide tourists on regulations in foreign countries like custom duty, foreign currency, exchange rates, etc.
In a travel agency you will book tickets for a regular clientele and also co-ordinate with big companies like SOTC or tour operators that need rail, bus and air tickets booked for their clients.
As a travel agent you could be working with travel companies like TCI, Cox & Kings or UVI Holidays Ltd. Planning the entire tour right from ticketing to booking the hotels, selecting places for sight seeing, hiring private vehicles, etc can be a daunting task.
You'll begin as a tour executive in the ticketing department. Your job will involve taking down the routes that your client wants to travel through and arranging for them. If a client needs to fly between Addis Ababa, Ethiopia and Madras, it is your job as a tour executive to tell him or her the best way to get there. This means giving them different options like the choice between flights, best discounts, etc.
The next step includes calling up the airline and confirming the ticket. To avoid goof-ups, every letter is represented by a word like, A for alpha. So, if you want to tell Indian Airlines (formerly known as Air India) you need to book on a flight from Mumbai to Delhi, you book the ticket saying D for Delta, E for Egypt and so on.
You can also work as a travel guide. Accompanying tourists, looking after their comforts and guiding them through the locations, explaining its history and culture can hardly be described as a job.
In the airline business you will function as the ground staff, assisting passengers in ticketing, answering passengers queries, issuing flight/boarding pass, checking luggage, etc. You could also work in the marketing department, promoting various tour packages to tourists as well as corporate clients.
Every state has its own tourism department, and so does the central government. You could start off as an Information Assistant in these tourism departments and gradually move up the ladder. If you need more information on this profile please feel free to contact us Now.
