Career Viewpoint: Opportunities and Skills in the Travel and Tourism Industry

Career Viewpoint

TABLE OF CONTENTS
INTRODUCTION...........................................................................................................................4
ANALYSIS AND APPLICATION.................................................................................................4
Industry overview........................................................................................................................4
Changing trends in Travel and Tourism industry........................................................................4
Essential skills.............................................................................................................................5
EVALUATION...............................................................................................................................7
CONCLUSION................................................................................................................................7
REFERENCES................................................................................................................................8
APPENDIX-1..................................................................................................................................9

INTRODUCTION
Thinking about starting a career is a very big thing. One is required to be sure about the
domain where they want to build their career. This report is prepared in order to demonstrate the
key knowledge and skills required by a recent college graduate for getting employment. This
report presents job opportunity available to fresh graduates. I have taken travel and tourism
industry where I want to make my career.
ANALYSIS AND APPLICATION
Industry overview
The tourism industry in UK is one of the largest and most valuable industry which has
shown the ability to attract more and more visitors. As per the research, the overall flight
bookings in UK is expected to grow up to 5% as compared to the previous year. The tourism in
UK is worth £127 billion which is boosting its economic growth (Rita, Brochado and Dimova,
2019). This industry is also the major job creator and provider. In 2018, the number of visitors in
UK were 37.9 million. It is expected that inbound tourism is expected to grow at the from £21
billion in the year 2013 to £57 billion in 2025. The travel and tourism industry accounts for 7.2%
of UK GDP.
The travel and tourism graduate have a varied career path depending upon the area of
interest. Bar, restaurant, hotel chains can recruit them for formal training programmes of
minimum 6 months which can help gaining experience in varied areas of business. Even large
tour companies also provide jobs to fresh graduates but competition is very tough to get in there.
On the other hand, small companies can hire and provide training on the job and can also offer to
take certificate of Association of British travel Agents (Prebensen, Chen and Uysal, 2018). The
starting salary that is being offered for the fresh graduates with no prior work experience is
within the range of £15000 to £20000 which increases with experience. In terms of working
hours, people are required to work off hours as well and even on the weekends.
Changing trends in Travel and Tourism industry
The key trends that can be expected that can affect the travel and tourism industry in UK
are stated below.
Holiday taking intent: Despite the political uncertainty in UK because of Brexit, the
holiday takers in UK doesn’t seem to be affected. It is estimated that 70% planning for oversea