How about doing tourism sales with a major in tourism management?

Actually, I think you can try it. I just graduated. If you want to develop in a tourism company in the future, you can start with sales. The employment directions of graduates majoring in tourism management are tourism companies, hotels, etc. Many jobs in travel companies are related to sales.

If you want to develop in the direction of a travel company, it is possible to do travel sales for about a year. But this should be combined with your own personality and your plans for the future. If you want to develop in the direction of travel peer sales, direct customer sales, or account manager in the future, then sales is the foundation, you must pass it, and you must learn to deal with customers or peers.

If you want to do business or product research and development in the future, such as planning and adjustment, product assistant, travel e-commerce, etc. You don’t need to do sales, so whether you want to do sales or not depends on your own planning and future design. If you want to be a market manager or contact customers, sales is the foundation. If you want to do business, product development and design, you don't need to contact sales.

Personally, I think tourism management majors can do sales. Tourism managers generally do more front-line tour guides or planners, and almost no sales. What they learn is management and group tours, and they are basically not used for sales. Although they are all related to tourism, the main development directions of tourism are different. It's like asking an emergency doctor to go to the dentist. He knows something but is not professional.

I took an ordinary tourism management major. Every time someone hears my major, they almost always say: Tour guide. It feels very disdainful. Is this really so unbearable?

Hello, in fact, tourism is not just a tour guide. Tourism is also a sunrise industry. There’s nothing intolerable, Don Idon’t find it unbearable. Maybe because they don’t understand the tourism industry, they usually only know tour guides when they travel.

In fact, the tourism industry is quite complex. I mainly talk about its positioning from offline traditional travel agencies and online platforms.

Angkor Wat in Cambodia

Traditional offline travel agency

Is the general manager of a top travel agency,

Downward sales team: below Some sales are mainly offline sales, that is, product promotion, customer collection, and customer maintenance.

Planning and adjustment team: Planning and adjustment is the brain of the travel agency, mainly controlling costs and team quality control. There are some planning and adjustment personnel below who are responsible for connecting front-end sales personnel and operations personnel of offline suppliers.

Yangshuo

Art team: Mainly responsible for product drawings and copywriting design for the company, and is an important auxiliary department of the travel agency. Traditional agencies generally rely on WeChat Moments to receive customers, so art drawings are very important.

Ticketing team: Mainly responsible for the company's air ticket business, mainly dealing with major airlines in order to provide the company with advantageous price tickets for each airline.

Royal Palace in Phnom Penh, Cambodia

Procurement team: Mainly responsible for the company’s procurement of non-self-operated lines, connecting with excellent line wholesalers, and negotiating cooperation agreements.

Finance team: Mainly responsible for the company's costs and profits, as well as paying wages, issuing invoices and handling all financial matters.

Tour guides: They are the most direct personnel of travel agencies serving tourists. They are mainly responsible for the safety and care of tourists on the way, and provide professional local explanations for tourists. A good tour guide is a very important soft power for a travel agency.

The red sand dunes of Mina, Vietnam

Traditional offline travel agencies generally include the above departments. Each department cooperates sincerely, and everyone below the department has detailed work responsibilities. Perfect Cooperation is a complete travel agency.

Sabah Brunei Hotel, Malaysia

Online OTA

I haven’t done it on OTA yet, but I can probably guess that, in addition to the above tradition The club has everything, and it will have:

Online travel advisory team: mainly refers to the consultation of front-line tourists, and answers the itinerary for tourists.

Platform online team: Because OTA purchases some lines and sells them on its own platform, online personnel are needed.

Lijiang Blue Moon Valley

Operation team: Mainly doing some advertising promotion, discussing cooperation with other traffic companies, and promoting this together.

It is probably different from the above, but there are probably other locations.

Huadu Lake in Guangzhou

So, you graduated from a tourism management book. The tourism industry may be stagnant now due to the epidemic, but once it recovers, it will still be full of life and vitality. You have many choices. Don't feel uncomfortable. It is the tertiary industry, decent work.

It is true, just believe it.