Travel & Tourism Retail
Travel & Tourism Retail jobs are part of a major industry in this country, at the top of the chart of foreign currency earners. As an industry, travel & tourism retail jobs involve a tour operator buying in, providing, and packaging a range of components to produce turnkey holidays marketed to customers through travel agencies, or via web sites, advertising and call centres. Retail travel agents offer travel & tourism retail jobs selling these holiday packages, whilst tour operators provide the consumer's after-sales service. Large tour operators with travel & tourism retail jobs often own the companies that produce the components - some operators own an airline service, or hotel chain - so travel & tourism retail jobs can also involve selling rail, air, theatre and venue tickets, or hotel rooms and coach trips as separate components.
Several major players in travel & tourism retail jobs dominate the outbound sector by providing air and rail travel, tour operator, call centre, and travel agency services. Large operators may have thousands of travel & tourism retail jobs in marketing, operations, sales, administration, IT, product development and legal departments as well as travel & tourism retail jobs for local resort representatives to support holidaymakers. Several of the large companies run graduate recruitment schemes for travel & tourism retail jobs and operate in-house training programmes for employees.
Travel & tourism retail jobs in high street retail travel agents involve acting as intermediaries between holiday providers and the customer. People in travel & tourism retail jobs need to have an excellent knowledge of the products offered by tour operators and travel companies. Incoming tour operator's travel & tourism retail jobs (or ground handlers) arrange accommodation, transport and tourist activities for visitors to Britain, and travel & tourism retail jobs working closely with overseas travel agencies. These travel & tourism retail jobs may specialise in group packages for business travellers, study tours or conference attendees. Many people seeking employment in travel & tourism retail jobs become holiday centre workers or managers, tour managers, holiday representatives, travel agents, or travel & tourism retail jobs as tourist guides or tourist information centre assistants.
Another aspect of travel & tourism retail jobs are the tourist authorities, VisitBritain (formerly the English Tourism Council and the British Tourist Authority), VisitScotland (formerly the Scottish Tourist Board), Northern Ireland Tourist Board and VisitWales and travel & tourism retail jobs with boards promoting the counties and regions of the UK. Travel & tourism retail jobs are important for thousands of smaller enterprises which provide food, accommodation, attractions and tourist travel services. Locally, travel & tourism retail jobs in tourism offices in the UK's local and unitary authority areas, especially where traditional industries have declined, work to promote the region as part of an economic development strategy.
There are many travel & tourism retail jobs in the almost 800 tourist information centres in England, Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland.
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