Tourism 600 Hours Diploma

Core Modules: These modules provide foundation knowledge for the Certificate in Tourism.

1. Financial (Money) Management BBS104
2. Food & Beverage Management BTR102
3. Tourism I BTR103
4. Event Management BRE209

Elective Modules: In addition to the core modules, students study any 2 of the following 8 modules.

1. Ecotour Management BTR101
2. Personnel Management VBS107
3. Entrepreneurship BBS204
4. Hotel Management BTR202
5. Leisure Facility Management I BRE205
6. Tourism II Special Interest Tourism BTR204
7. Adventure Tourism BTR302
8. Ecotourism Tour Guide Course BTR301

CAREER OPTIONS WORKING AS A TOUR MANAGER OR OPERATOR

Tour managers take the difficulty out of holidays. They coordinate and arrange tour, travel, and holiday packages that coordinate a range of different services, including flights, transportation, accommodation, sight seeing, food, and any other necessary services. This can make travelling more appealing for people who are either time poor, or overwhelmed by the notion of having to organise all this themselves. Tours will also offer the added bonus of being able to offer clients authentic experiences due to local knowledge that the customers may not be able to access otherwise. Tour operators are responsible for planning, creating, organizing, and marketing the tour, as well as booking clients in, operating the tour, giving advice, and solving any problems that arise.

Opportunities
Tour operators may work for themselves, or they may work for larger companies. Job opportunities include:

• Working for yourself
• Working in a small, specialised company
• Working on cruise ships
• Working for a hotel or resort
• Working for a major international tour operator

Depending on the company, the role can vary to include all tasks involved in delivering tour packages, or the tour operator may be required to do just one or more task that they specialise in, for example leading the tour, taking bookings, negotiating deals with service providers, etc.

There are many different sectors of the market that tours can service. For example, tours for older people, tours for young travellers on their first overseas trip, adventure or eco tourism, holidays for families, etc. One of the latest areas in tours is voluntourism, where people will spend part of their trip touring around a country, and the other part participating in some form of volunteer work.

Although people are looking to the internet to book their tours, there is still a need for tourism operators to create the tours (as well as the website content). To be a successful tourism operator, you will need to have a good online presence, and be creative, innovative, and up to date with trends.