TRAVEL & TOURISM DIPLOMA

Greater Brighton Metropolitan College

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    Course

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    Online

If you have ambitions to expand your horizons by pursuing a career in the travel industry, then this excellent-value online diploma is the perfect way to set the wheels in motion. There are many different career routes you can take in the booming tra...

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Subjects

  • Travel Tourism
  • Tourism
  • Travel and Tourism

Course programme

  • What we actually mean by 'travel and tourism'
  • The scope and scale of the industry
  • The different facets of the industry
  • The potential for your career
  • The basics of customer service
  • Understanding the needs and wants of the customers
  • Dealing with issues
  • How to improve your own skills for dealing with customers
  • Getting started in the industry
  • The potential directions your career can go
  • The skills you need in order to make progress
  • Options for travelling or broadening your horizons
  • The most popular sectors within the industry
  • How to get started in them
  • The potential and long term picture of the sectors
  • Issues or problems you may have to contend with
  • What we mean by the term 'tourism management'
  • The key characteristics you will need to succeed
  • The key parts of the job that you need to excel at
  • What is expected of you within this role?
  • The reasons for the industry
  • What people are looking for when they travel or are tourists
  • How to take those reasons and give them what they want
  • How to handle problems when products or services cannot be supplied
  • The basics of promotion and marketing within the industry
  • The size and scale of marketing
  • How it impacts on your own career
  • Key methods used in the promotion of the industry
  • The link between social media and tourism
  • How to handle both sides at the same time
  • Key things to look out for with social media and how it impacts your job
  • How to take advantage of social media
  • What we mean by tourism policy and strategy
  • Implementing those policies
  • The role you play in the policy or strategy
  • Understanding the aims and recording progress
  • The basics of tourism planning and development
  • Your role in the process
  • Dealing with issues and identifying problems within the market
  • Turning things around to your advantage
  • What we mean by ecotourism
  • The reasons why people get involved in this type of specialist tour
  • How to deal with these special requests
  • The future of specialised tourism
  • The basics of long haul destinations
  • The basics of short haul destinations
  • How to handle the requests to provide what the customer wants
  • Key points to look out for when dealing with these destinations
  • The importance of domestic tourism
  • The UK market
  • Dealing with UK travel destinations
  • Selling the UK market abroad
  • How to identify a trend
  • Examples of trends
  • How to take advantage of a trend
  • The future of travel
  • The main issues that will arise during your career
  • Staying ahead of the game
  • How to contend with those issues
  • Boosting your career at the end of the day

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