Career options after Post Graduate Diploma in Travel and Tourism

Tourism and Travel Management being a huge field, there are bright career prospects in the tourism and travel industry. After learning tourism and travel management, you can find a job in both private sector in airlines, transport, hotels, cargos and travel agencies, and in public sector in directorates and tourism departments. After completing a Graduate or Postgraduate course in Tourism and Travel Management, you can choose any one of the following as your career option:

There are many options to venture into to be a part of the tourism sector; public and private. The following are some of the profiles one can look into:

Tourism Department: There are jobs as Reservation and counter staff, Sales and marketing staff, Tour Planners and Tour guides. There is also the requirement of Information assistants at the office of the Tourism departments who are selected through competitive examinations held by the Staff Selection Commission. The option of working as a Guide is also listed under the tourism department as the Ministry of Tourism recognizes three types of guides; regional, state and local.

Airlines: One can opt between being the ground staff or in flight staff. Apart from working as Airhostess/ Stewards, you can look into the option of Traffic Assistance, Reservation and Counter Staff, etc.

Hotels: The Hotel Industry being a service industry, serves the basic requirement of food and accommodation. One can choose from Operations, Front office, House keeping, Food and Beverages, Accounting, Engineering/ Maintenance, Sales, Public relations and Security, etc as one of the many departments to work with.

Tour operators: They are the ones who help organize conducted tours to the various tourist spots and manage the travel and stay of the tourists.

Travel Agents: Travel agents evaluate the requirements of tourists and businessmen and help them make the best possible travel arrangements from the many available. Many resorts, travel groups use travel agents to promote their tour packages to travelers.

Transport: Apart from airlines, travelers require rail services, coach operators, car hire companies to go from one place to another - by air, road, railway, sea etc. All this is take care by the ones handling transport.