Careers In Travel And Tourism

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Careers
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Travel And Tourism
Introduction
Eligibility
Job Prospects
Remuneration
Institutes
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Introduction
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Travel and Tourism one of the world's largest
foreign exchange earner among industries,
provides employment directly to millions of
people worldwide and indirectly through many
associated service industries. A very wide
industry, it includes Government tourism
departments, Immigration and customs services,
travel agencies, airlines, tour operators, hotels
etc and many associated service industries such
as airline catering or laundry services, Guides,
Interpreters, Tourism promotion and sales etc. 
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Eligibility
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Eligibility for certification courses is 102.
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Job Prospects
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Being a very wide field, the scope of employment
in tourism sector is very bright and the
potential is still largely untapped. Career
opportunities exist both in the public and
private sector. In the public sector, there are
opportunities in the Directorates and Departments
of Tourism of the center and the state as
Officers, information assistants, Tourist guides
etc. Another good prospectus for qualified
tourism professionals are in the private sector
with travel agencies, tour operators, airlines,
hotels, transport and cargo companies etc. The
opening up of the skies to private airlines and
their emerging tie-ups with foreign airlines has
removed bottlenecks in the transport and
communication network resulting in easy flow of
domestic and foreign tourists in the country.
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Remuneration
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A Travel Agent earns an average salary of Rs
220,909 per year.
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Institutes
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Amity Institute of Travel and Tourism, Amity
university,Noida , Delhi NCR. Suryadatta College
of Hospitality Management Travel
Tourism(SCHMTT),Pune , Maharashtra. Kerala
Institute Tourism and Travel Studies
(KITTS),Thiruvananthapuram , Kerala. Indian
Institute of Tourism Travel Management,
Gwalior,Madhya Pradesh.