A career in the Travel and Tourism Industry, India


Travel and tourism industries are one of the rapid growing industries in India. India hopes to create 46 million job opportunities by 2025 in which the travel and tourism industry is going to play a major role along with the IT hubs. This is becoming a high-priority sector day by day where Government is showing hopes to provide crucial employment opportunities. Government is also offering training to the local youths based on their skills to match the infrastructure with International level.



Let us know about some major job opportunities providing by travel and tourism companies:
1.      Travel blogger/vlogger
2.      Cruise staff
3.      Destination wedding photographer
4.      Flight attendant
5.      Travel agent
6.      Travel consultant
7.      Event management
8.      Field service engineer
To work with a travel and tourism sector you should have some additional skills:
1.      Good communication skills
2.      Good interpersonal skills
3.      A reasonable knowledge of world geography
4.      Service orientation
5.      Working long hours
There are various courses for students after 12th and graduation to grow their career with the travel and tourism industries. These courses offer knowledge and information required to work with travel & tourism sectors. Many universities and institutes offer Bachelor and Master degrees, diplomas, certificates and other learning courses on travel and tourism industry such as management in tourism, management in tour operation or airline, hotel operations, destination management, travel administration, airline ticketing to name a few.


Government of India has recently approved a new course over travel and tourism, known as MTA (Master of Tourism Administrator) which is offered by few of some universities only like IITM and few others. A postgraduate degree in the related field is important to get into the position of managers or administration can be helpful. Even there are some crash-courses over destination marketing and tour operation which are competitive enough to get overall knowledge about industry and land with a good career opportunity. Also, there are some vocational courses which you can apply to get a B-Voc degree which is a skill-based certificate course and it can also bring success in your career.
Here is a list of some institutes in all over India which offers career option in travel and tourism.
1.     Christ University, Bangalore
2.     Integral University, Lucknow
3.     Lovely professional university, Phagwara
4.     Chhatrapati Shahu Ji Maharaj University, Kanpur
5.     Institute of business management and research, IPS Academy, Indore
6.     College of Engineering, Guindy
7.     Pondicherry University, Puducherry
8.     Amity University, Noida
9.     University of Burdwan, Bardhaman
10. Institute of management, university of Kerala, Trivandrum
11. Bundelkhand University, Jhansi
12. Madurai Kamaraj University, Madurai
13. International Institute of professional studies, Devi Ahilya University, Indore
14. Pt Ravishankar Shukla University, Raipur
15. Indira Gandhi National Tribal University, Amarkantak
16. Alagappa University, Karaikundi
17. University of Lucknow, Lucknow
18. Jai Narain Vyas University, Jodhpur
19. Rai University, Ahmedabad
20. The Assam Kaziranga University, Jorhat
21. Adikavi Nannaya University, Rajahmundry
22. Indus University, Ahmedabad
23. Tilka Manjhi Bhagalpur University, Bhagalpur
24. Jiwaji University, Gwalior
25. Prestige Institute of Management, Gwalior
26. Avinashilingam Institute for Home Science and Higher Education for Women, Coimbatore
27. Mangalore University, Mangalore
28. Mother Teresa women’s university, Kodaikanal
29. Himachal Pradesh University, Shimla
30.  Vikrama Simhapuri University, Nellore
As to fact mentioned above, it is crystal clear that the travel and tourism sector is one of the massive growing sectors in India which offer a huge career growth options for youth. So, if you are a student and willing to build your career in the travel and tourism industry, pick any institute from the list and apply. If you are still not sure whether the tourism industry is your destination or not, consult with any counseling experts or appear on the Career Aptitude Test online.

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