Recruitment and Selection Strategies for the Tourism Industry

This report provides an overview of the recruitment and selection process within the tourism sector. It focuses on a hypothetical company, exploring job descriptions and adverts for a tour operator position. The report analyzes the role's responsibilities, required skills, and qualifications. It also considers a medium-scale enterprise with a focus on the location, number of employees, and the product or service offered. The report also provides an overview of the importance of the recruitment and selection process in the tourism sector. The report highlights the significance of a well-defined job description and advert, including the required qualifications, skills, and experience of an individual.

Individual Recruitment and Selection Presentation
Student Name-

Description of Business
• Verdant Leisure is one of the bespoke holiday park company in which provide the
self-catering lodges and caravan holiday service to their potential consumers
(Bhosle, 2020). Verdant Leisure offer a wide range of holiday options which are
completely suit all budgets, whether individual people want to buy or rent a holiday
home.
• The location of company across Scotland and Northern England. The company
location is not only provide the better opportunities to spend a time together in
some UK based location with families, friends and so on. Verdant Leisure is
medium scale enterprise so that it only 50- 150 employees (Carrillo, Barbieri and
Edwards, 2020).

Company Structure

Job Vacancy
Company Name – Verdant Leisure
Job title: Tour operator
Main purpose and scope of the job
The purpose and scope of tour operator job is that identify the most suitable candidate who are easily handle responsibilities
while organizing and preparing a better holiday tours of travelers (HAREEBIN, 2020). Usually, they follow a latest trend in
popularity of destination, adjust the plans accordingly.
Job location- London, UK
Position in the company- junior tour operator
Reports To- Tour operator manager
Responsible for- Operational and managerial activities

Person Specification
Name of Company- Verdant Leisure Job title- Verdant Leisure
Job Requirements Essential/ Desirable
1 Qualifications Minimum education qualification for becoming tour operator is graduation in
hospitality sector (Nguyen, 2020).
2 Knowledge knowledge of the culture and history of an area
ability to handle client and fulfill their requirements

Cont.
3 Skills Bookings and communication
IT related skills to operate system.
4 Experience Having experience of 2-3 years in hospitality industry as tour operator.
5 Personal Qualities
Good communication skill
Inter-personal skill

Job Advert for Tour operator
• Full time tour operator
• Verdant Leisure
• £8.72 per hour
• Live in Accommodation available
• Verdant Leisure Company is looking for experienced tour operator which plays important role in delivering a great
experience (Parveen, Rahman and Khaled, 2020). It keep eye for detail, organized a better holiday package of guest
(Hareebin, 2020). Sometimes, it willingness to exceed the guest expectation.
• Tour operator are working individual way to identify specific need or requirement for guests (Wekhuyi, 2020).
• Significant role of tour operate is looking for medium scale enterprise.

Conclusion
From above discussion, it has been summarised the job description of tour operator and advertise the
vacancy by Verdant Leisure. Analysis all person specification, job advert for tour operator job position.
Moreover, discussion on the medium scale company such as Verdant Leisure, identify location, number of
employee and product or services.

References
• Bhosle, N.S., 2020. IMPACT OF RECRUITMENT AND SELECTION STRATEGY ON
EMPLOYEES’PERFORMANCE. Advance and Innovative Research, p.248.
• Carrillo, B., Barbieri, C., Knollenberg, W. and Edwards, M.B., 2020. Tour leading in South America: Job
inputs and outcomes. Journal of Travel Research, 59(7), pp.1316-1330.
• HAREEBIN, Y., 2020. Factors affecting human capital and innovative entrepreneurial capabilities of tour
operators: Evidence from Andaman Coast, Thailand. The Journal of Asian Finance, Economics, and
Business, 7(10), pp.359-368.

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