Report on Academic and Employability Skills Module Learning Experience

This report offers a comprehensive reflection on a module focused on academic and employability skills, specifically within the context of tourism management. The student details the concepts learned, including tourism's impact, planning, destination management, and hospitality services. The report highlights the acquisition of specific skills such as empathy, teamwork, time management, and problem-solving. It also addresses difficulties encountered, such as taxation complexities, marketing challenges, and the impact of globalization. The student outlines strategies employed to overcome these difficulties, including team leadership, competency development, and commercial acumen, demonstrating a proactive approach to professional growth and development within the tourism industry. The report concludes by emphasizing the importance of these skills for future career success.

Academic and
employability skills

Table of Contents
INTRODUCTION...........................................................................................................................1
TASK:..............................................................................................................................................1
What you have learned in the module.........................................................................................1
The specific skills that is acquired..............................................................................................2
What difficulties encountered in study of module......................................................................3
How to overcome difficulties and strategies that found helpful.................................................4
CONCLUSION ...............................................................................................................................6
REFERENCES................................................................................................................................7

INTRODUCTION
Academic and professional skills are those that is required for an individual as to gain
higher heights in future period of time and with this ability to gain better job place and position
is developed in systematic manner. The professional skills assist to maintain career competencies
that is more often include various skills as project management, mentoring, conflict resolution,
value added abilities and skills, leadership that is required for a sustained growth in future
(Beagon, 2018). On the other hand academic skills reflect adequate strength as with this
individual talent, knowledge, strength, experience, character, traits and talent is developed that
thrive into a learning surround. It also be subjected to the better level of possibilities as with this
suitable talent and skills are developed that furthermore assist to gain stability in future period of
time. The report below provide relative concern about tourism management along with its
undertaking of different activities and skills.
TASK:
What you have learned in the module
As from the concern of module, suitable study about tourism management is processed as
in this I have learned about the concept of tourism and its impact over the life of many people.
The tourism management basically involved the various multi directional as with this different
activities is induced as of planning, destination, travel arrangement that provide various
hospitality and accommodation services. It include various aspect of management and business
administration that is developed under travel and tourism. It oversight several activities that is
dependent on hospitality and tourism sector as with this multidisciplinary task is involved that is
processed as by preparing certain level of interest, training and experience about management
positions as it is reflected on the basis of tourism, accommodation and food industry (French and
et. al., 2020). It furthermore consist of an enterprise, public authority and association through
which potential travellers are attracted as with this certain level of economy also get developed.
It is an industry that consist of various functions of administration functions and operations as
marketing, human resource and finance. I have learned that tourism is based on the idea and
thought of travelling to certain destinations that is away from the home and provide a positive
feeling of pleasure and comfort. It is the most growing field of tourism that offer better
opportunities as in terms of several opportunities and facilities to tourist to get stay and offer
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employment to a lot of employee and that is also be based on certain level of educational
qualification, experience and skills set. It is a industry in which growth and development are the
phase that is always be required and embark for differ reasons as relaxation, family visit,
promotion and advancing of new culture that is a fundamental right of professional outline. It is
an essential prospect under which growth, economic potential and development is most required
in which accessibility, attraction and accommodation is basic component that is related to
tourism management. In terms of accessibility transportation and travelling as by reflecting
better arrangement as line public transport, cars, trains, air planes and cruise ships. In relation to
accommodation hotel, motel, camping spaces, cabins, resorts and many other components as
well and in relation to attraction entertainment and activities is processed in historical sites,
theme parks and natural resources (Meissner and Shmatko, 2019). It is an industry that reflect
sustained and rapid growth that assist to preconditioning of in-depth knowledge and practical
implication of preferences that is varied as per concern of viewers point of view. It comprise of
different principles as with this fiercely competition is increases as with this working capabilities
and higher position is attained as by gaining continuous experience. There are different kinds of
job that is associated with tourism and its management as monitoring of accounts and managing
of budgets, staff management, ensuring customer's satisfaction and engagement, dealing with
complaints and queries of customers, promoting tourism, overseeing of daily functions,
marketing in terms of tourist attraction and to seek better level of improvements.
The specific skills that is acquired
In the tourism management it is required that an individual must have empathetic ability
of problem solving that has huge and strong impact over development of time management skills
by which resilience from under pressure is developed on constrained mode. In order to achieve
better heights in future career within tourism and hospitality it is essential to recognise about the
value and importance of soft skills. It is more often provide clear acknowledgement about to
make certain level of investment in order to provide and possess adequate personality that is
processed as by discovery of essential prospect in timely frame (Tan and Laswad, 2018). In this
it is necessary to implement various skills that is acquired by me and it is as explained below as: Empathy and emotional intelligence: In this digital transformation is analysed that is
usually get carried about to maintain sustainability in future. In relation to tourism and
hospitality as with this adequate investment within human capital is advanced by which
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balanced level innovation and creation that changes overall scenario of measuring
different conditions that is used to determine better development and success over a
regular period of instance. It hold true access of varied measurements under which better
control over working credibility is developed with repetitiveness. Teamwork: I have a specified qualification that is related to travel and tourism as with
this wider range of services is processed through which integrated outcome is developed
in systematic manner. It developed sustained level of ability in which essentials changes
is implemented as per requirement and demand of suitable condition. I have this skills
and have learned to satisfy and fulfil demand of individual under which need is satisfied
with better suitability (Velosa and et. al., 2018). It assist me to offer adequate preparation
and support that furthermore, improvise interpersonal skills and capabilities that is
required to achieve professional success and development in constrained mode. Time and stress management: In order to work in tourism industry it is required that I
have worked over to manage and control different working at similar period of instance.
In this I have worked with support of emotions and feelings as with this I am able to deal
with unexpected consequences under which certain level of preparation to attain
multitasking is involved by which long term success is achieved as by developing
suitable efficiency and customer's satisfaction as well.
 Problem solving: It is used to maintain adequate level of dealing with different situations
by which ability to think and connect with feasible and reliable consequences is induced
with perfection. In this I have make usage of career advancement that develop higher
level of certainty by which level of determination and success both get advanced with
adequateness (Baan, Gaikhorst and Volman, 2020). I have learned to measure and
manage different level of crisis by which effectual level of understanding in terms of
identification of problem and its solution both get advanced in improvised manner.
What difficulties encountered in study of module
The general and basic quality within tourism industry is to make better level of
contingent as with this effectual training and opportunities is developed in constrained mode. In
prospect tourism management volatility is maintained as with this rate of control and its
beginning both get developed with easiness. I have few challenges that I have faced as per
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processing of knowledge and skills by which quick change is implemented as per requirement
and as per accordance to varied situations and it is as briefly explained below as: Taxation: It is harder for me to recognised and understand the range of heavy duty taxes
of governance as it offer a glance as per tax that is paid for hotel rooms and tickets of
airline that somehow have negative impact over tourism. In addition tourism industry
faces a lot of competition and with this offered products and services also get promoted
as in order to manage various services is promoted as per consideration of local economy
promotion and advancement (Beagon, Niall and Ní Fhloinn, 2019). Travel marketing: It is dependent over the rate of travellers that deem ups the level of
marketing and its placement by which inadequate and exaggerated services are
progressed. It is difficult to understand the level of marketing that is required to be
followed by the business as it assist to develop adequate perception and awareness
through which innovative and creative outcome is generated and developed that
advances the ability to attract travellers.
 Globalisation: It is a stage in which it is required that balanced level of modification and
advancement in terms of distinct relation is developed as with this indistinguishable
outcome is achieved within assigned period of instance. As it is to generous that if any
individual get travelling that develop various opportunities in order to exploration and
uniqueness in which better clarity about promotion and working standards both get
advanced. It create difficulty for a tourism industry to get explored its working standards
and in this I have also faced certain difficulties that is related to multilingual websites
and its translation that create higher level of miscommunication by which rate of
transparency get affected on direct basis.
How to overcome difficulties and strategies that found helpful
There is a lot of difficulties that I have found while managing the boom and economic
recession that is faced by a tourism industry has direct impact over the growth and development
of an industry. The thrive and alteration in industry create higher level of problems as it also
offer unique selling proposition in order to overarching of brand strategy (Retnanto, Parsaei and
Parsaei, 2018). For this I have worked on different strategies under which certain help is
developed through which ability of mine to get over from different situation is advanced in
ordinate mode and it is as illustrate below as:
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 Team leadership: It basically reflect an ability that is used to build and rapport a team
work and with this I have easily analyse the different undertaking by which ability to gain
adequate trust and believe both get advanced. For this I have worked on to develop
positive surround under which ultimate change is addressed in timely basis. In this I have
foster the level of cooperation and collaboration by which ability to meet standardised
objectives is achieve in systematic mode. Competency in different areas: In this I have make sure to gain higher level of
improvisation as with this long term success is attained with perfection as with this ability
to monitor and measure success and development is induced with perfection (Jefferies
and et. al., 2018). As I have higher academic qualification that furthermore help me to
advance working experience of mine through which rate and probability to gain clarity in
terms of hospitality is policy and strategies.
 Commercial acumen: It is a strategy that help me to advanced and enhance better level
of understanding by which effective utilisation of resources and its control is induced as
perfection. In this I have developed a suitable level of knowledge and understanding
about leadership quality as with support of budgeting, handling and staffing is managed.
For this I am able to develop marketing strategies as per concern of various initiative
through which rate of revenue generation and margin capabilities also get matched that
helped me to gain long term success and development in timely frame (Uğur and Hamit
Turan, 2019).
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CONCLUSION
It has been concluded from the above report that tourism management is a basic prospect
that consider tour and travel as with this more of the potential viewers get attracted through
which culture and its practices also get promoted. In this I have learned about to basic of tourism
management and its importance that assist me to know it with deeper sense by which I am able to
address aspect related to tourism. In this different skills are required as it acquire better leaning
ability that intensify the learning prospect in ordinate mode. Furthermore, there is few difficulties
as well that I have faced and in order to get overcome from these situations I have developed
accurate strategies that assist to gain long term success and development.
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