Hospitality & Travel

Air Ticketing- this is the actual purchase/issuing of a ticket for a mode of travel. A lot of airlines have their offshore ticketing offices, where immediate purchases can be made by passengers.
These counters are also available at the airport and such jobs are offered directly through the respective airlines as ground staff. Ticketing would also require knowledge of certain software for the process.
So, both have similar career prospects depending on the path you choose.
Airline ticketing agents located at the airports are not responsible for the ticketing only, but ticket agents work directly with passengers, airlines like to see a customer service and/or sales background along with excellent verbal and written communication skills, basic typing and computer skills, and ability to perform basic mathematics. Ticket agents must have the ability to work without close supervision, and have a general knowledge of geography. Cash handling and credit card transaction experience is helpful. Foreign language skills may be required.
General ticketing could include the simple job of booking tickets for other modes of transport including rail, bus, cruise etc.
Air ticketing will definitely be more preferred as it has added responsibilities to the profile and better pay packages.

Travelling is a wonderful experience. It offers great scope for learning and seeing new places, meeting new people and experiencing new cultures. It is these very things that also open a plethora of job opportunities in the field of travel.
There are many many job options in this field that allows one to earn good money and enjoy their job as well. The jobs are related to various profiles ranging from hospitality, to people dealing actual traveling, etc.
Some common profiles that are opted for are:
Tour company/agent: many people open their very own tour agency to help people plan their travel to new locations. This offers good money as they have a lot of commission and packages through which they earn. It is the contacts and the manual efforts that they earn for and the investment is limited.
Tour guide: Having great knowledge of your homeland does pay off at one point if you decide to use it as a tour guide. Heritage sites and local markets these are all very preferred places of visit for tourist and they are willing to pay well for trustworthy professional who can guide them to a better experience
Travel writer: You have the chance to record every moment that you experience in your travel and share it with the world through travel blogs, journal, etc.Travel writers are highly paid as they have set goals to explore the Unexplored areas of the world and promote such locations.
So the jobs could be endless and the profiles very interesting, it also comes down to how you want to enjoy and earn from your travel experiences.

In the tourism department, there are jobs at the reservation & counter staff, sales and marketing staff, tour planners and tour guides. Officers in the Directorate and Departments of Tourism are recruited from among the candidates who have done civil service, drawn from the civil/administrative services of the State and Central governments. They are involved in the planning and promotion of tourism activities. A degree in travel and tourism is required for operational jobs in government organisations. Information assistants at the office of the tourism departments are selected through competitive examinations held by the Staff Selection Commission. The eligibility is graduation with knowledge of Indian history, art and architecture, besides proficiency in English. These vacancies are advertised through employment news.

AIHMCT Exam syllabus & exam pattern
The exam will be written exam of AIHMCT and this will be conducted in the first week of March 2018. The paper will consist of 200 multiple choice questions. Mode of the exam will be pen-paper based. The exam conducting the authority Army Institute of Hotel Management and Catering Technology, Bangalore, India conducts the exam once in a year to offer admission for undergraduate courses at colleges participating in the AIHMCT.
Exam pattern
Pen-paper based exam.
There is no negative marking for the wrong attempt, so students can freely attempt all the questions.
For every correct answer, 1 mark will be given.
The exam will be conducted only in the English language.
The questions will be asked from the subject like Reasoning and Aptitude, Data Analysis and Interpretation, Mathematical Ability, English Language and General Awareness.