Профессии в туризме

Professions in tourism

If you want a career that is challenging, exciting and rewarding, if you want to meet and work with people from different parts of the world you must enter any University or Institute teaching tourism.

There you can learn knowledge and skills which will help you succeed in a he tourism and hospitality industry, or in the various organizations and career in t business linked to this important industry: airlines, airlines services, casinos, clubs, local transportation services, museums, recreation, restaurants, and many others.

Usually the medium of instruction is English.

The career prospects after graduation are rather promising, because besides being prepared for a career in the industry, students may become future trainers and teachers for the service sector .

The tourism manager

Planning, organization, work with personnel, management and control are the main functions of the manager. The tourism manager who works in a tourist company usually runs some tourist business. He supervises all kinds of operations in a tourist company and company’s stuff. The tourism manager plan the tourist business, he provides tour operations, developing of new tourist product and obtaining profits. He is charge of the results.

He decides on development and promotion of new packages, advertising and sales. One of his duties is to decide on prices and discounts. The manager deals a lot of negotiating with supplies representatives of other travel companies. The tourism manager is responsible for hiring the employees and their works and how much each person earns. When the tourism manager is just the heard of some department in a large tourist company, he then reports to the general manager

The tour-guide

The tour guide is a person who accompanies a group of tourists on package tour.

He is also called a tour leader, a tour manager, a tour director, or a tour escort. Usually the job of a tour guide includes meeting and accompanying groups of tourists. He is a person who generally creates an enjoyable atmosphere among tourists and deals with all their problems.

The tour guide must possess the two main qualities above all: he must be a sociable person and have a good knowledge of many things.

The knowledge of a foreign language is becoming more and more valued.

The tour guide always knows history, geography, art and culture well. He knows well the history and the sights of his destination. He usually answers a lot of questions.

A great many very important people in the tourist industry began their careers as tour guides in their native destinations.

The animator

Many resort hotels and nearly all cruise ships employ people who are in charge of the activities and are supposed to entertain and amuse the customers. These people are known as animators.

Chief animators are often called social directors. They organize the activities of tourists during the day at the resort or on board a ship. They involve the willing and the reluctant guests in action. The animator invites guests to take part in the fun and games.

The chief animator or social director organizes and conducts parties, shows, sport or art contests, games for children and grown-ups. He communicates with guests a lot.

A good animator or social director provides entertainment for the guests in their native language. All the guests enjoy his speaking several foreign languages.

Questions

• What are the main managerial functions?
• Where does the tourism manager work?
• What is he in charge of?
• What is a tour guide?
• What are the synonyms for “the tour guide”?
• Does he do anything special for a group of tourists he accompanies?
• Why must he know languages well’?

Questions

• What kinds of professions are the hotels interested in?
• Who entertains and amuses guests at a resort hotel?
• 3. What does he organize?
• 4. Who is called the social director?
• 5. What does the animator involve guests in?
• 6. Why does he speak several foreign languages‘?
• What kind of person is the animator?

Working in Groups

• Say what you’ve learned from the text about :

• - The ways the tour guide is called,
• What his job includes,
• The importance of foreign languages for him,
• The importance of wide knowledge for him.

Thank you for your attentions