Jobs in travel and tourism

Travel services and tourist attractions and visitors

Travel services are to support the travel and tourism sector in general, and companies such as travel agencies and tour operators. Tourist services are inbound and domestic tourism support in the UK and include organizations such as tourist offices and tourist information offices, and businesses such as national operators. There are a wide variety of jobs in the service industry of travel and tourism from tourist guides and travel agencies and monitoring positions.

Among the attractions are places such as theme parks, wildlife parks / zoos and heritage sites - they are destinations for tourists, as part of their vacation time or leisure. Visitors will be a mixture of British residents and visitors to the UK. Some of the attractions visitors will be part of the package, for example, foreign visitors can take a tour that includes tourist attractions in the West Midlands, as Shakespeare's birthplace and Warwick Castle, Stratford on -Avon.

    Examples of these jobs include:

Resort representatives for the work that tourists have a safe and enjoyable time at your chosen destination, usually overseas. Resort representatives of May:

face a series of obligations to its host - the right to transfer and welcome to deal with complaints and inquiries about accommodation and facilities, monitoring the output of the output.
work in an area of specialization, such as caring for children or guests specific age group of customers, such as 18-30 or 50+ and organizing events, activities and games for the group are responsible.
Theme / Fair Park workers working in theme parks, shows and attractions for visitors. When working on the rides that are responsible for the operation and oversight of rides, to ensure that clients meet the height restrictions and old, to help people in and out of rides and perform security checks. They can also manage shows and stands, selling theme park merchandise and refreshments to the public and answer questions from customers and money and complaints.

Managers tour tours work, usually in a bus or minibus tours although some may use a variety of transport, both in the UK and abroad. They go with the group to ensure that everything runs smoothly and to provide information and commentary on the sights, the history, life and the local culture. Some circuits are specialists covering, for example, music, art or history. Most tour operators working abroad using foreign languages in their work.

Guides work primarily with groups - take around tourist attractions, museums, monuments and gardens, to comment and answer questions to help you make the most of your visit. Visitors could be British or foreign tourists and guides specialize in one or more foreign languages.

Tourist information center assistants work with visitors to the area or planning your visits, giving them information, make reservations, such as accommodation for them, advise on local attractions and facilities, ticket sales to give instructions and answer questions. This assistance may be provided in person, by telephone, letter or email. Also sorted and show a series of brochures for local attractions, lodging, recreation providers and home and sell items such as local guides and souvenirs.

Travel agents sell holidays, and all the extras such as car hire and transport improvements. They also give advice to clients to help them make decisions about the destination of the package and the right or exercise and agree on a holiday tailored to include travel arrangements and accommodation for them. Some work in supermarkets rental or travel agencies, other call centers. More and more work at home taking calls and booking and visit clients in their homes. Some travel agencies specialize in working with business customers who organize travel plans tailored to them.

This section includes only a sample of jobs in the travel services - other works include: consultant call center operators, travel, tour operators, tourism officials and managers, station managers.

Passenger transport

Millions of passengers are transported across the UK and abroad by plane, bus and coach, road, water and rail each year. The most travel or vacation related recreation is done by air and coach, but more and more people are also using ships, including ferries, canal boats and cruise ships and trains - the Channel Tunnel has direct trains to Europe from the United Kingdom. The work is based on a wide range of locations including airports, railway and bus stations and offices.

The work includes:

Air Crew are responsible for ensuring that its airline passengers have a pleasant trip, safe and comfortable. They are trained to deal with security and safety of passengers during a flight. They also prepare the aircraft for flight and meet the needs of passengers, including serving food and drinks and assist in loading and unloading. You need cabin crew air to address the problems of passengers during the flight, for example in case of illness or emergency.

The bus drivers drive safely and legally - working on regular lines, coaches or long trips away from home driving on trips and vacations. They may even be necessary to conduct abroad. Bus drivers load and unload bulky luggage, take charge or mark the names on a list of passengers and provide advice and information and, in some cases, a comment on the passengers. Bus drivers also have to deal with emergencies, such as breakdowns, accidents, illness or aggression.

Official passenger audit also known as agents for passenger service or handling agents, are responsible for the booking of airline passengers and their luggage. Accommodate passengers, review reservations for passengers and passport / identification, the distribution of seats, despite the baggage (excess charge), print labels and attach to luggage, ask security issue of boarding and passenger direct access to the security gate and boarding cards.

Train crew - can also be called train drivers railway, administrators, guards, station or ticket inspectors - to work on passenger trains, ensuring that passengers are safe and comfortable. They also offer other services such as housing first class passengers (serving food and drinks to their tables, for example), the sale of food sales and control drinks and tickets, making announcements to provide information, to solve problems passenger trains and answer questions. They are also responsible for opening the doors once the train arrived safely in a season and close them so that the train can leave on time.

This section includes only a sample of jobs in the transportation of passengers on other tasks: air traffic controller, flight, the passenger vehicle driver of the coach, services of higher hierarchical passenger port operations, pilot assistant station Train, train driver, taxi driver, tram driver and operators waterways.

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