Tourism & Travel Scope

Travel & Tourism: Job Profiles & Top Recruiters
While experience is a significant factor to grow in the field of travel and tourism, there are endless job opportunities that candidates can avail themselves of in both private and public sectors after pursuing a course in the same. Holiday/ Travel Agent: A travel agent evaluates the requirements of tourists and helps them make the best possible travel arrangements. Many hotels and travel groups hire travel agents to sell their tour packages to clients. Travel Executive: A travel executive is responsible for managing different aspects of travel including transportation, flight booking, hotel accommodation, destination information, etc. Tourism Manager: A tourism manager promotes tourism in his/her region through different advertising strategies and campaigns. The manager also offers assistance to tourists of different cultures and traditions. Travel Officer/ Coordinator: A travel coordinator finds the best prices on hotels, flights, and rental cars; processes employee travel expenses, Sets up corporate discounts with travel vendors, creates itineraries, etc. Airlines/ Ground Staff: The ground staff plays a crucial role in areas such as commercial activities, running of airports, airline operations, etc. The job of ground staff is vast and includes responsibilities such as inspecting, storing, and transporting luggage; and stocking the aircraft with food and beverage items. Tourist Guide: A tourist guide helps tourists visit different tourist places and provides them information on the cultural, historical, and contemporary heritage of religious and historical sites, museums, and other places of interest. Transport Officer: A transport officer is typically appointed by a state government or local transport body to carry out activities like maintenance of the vehicle fleet, overseeing vehicle establishment programs, certifying ground transportation budget, etc. Travel Counselor/ Consultant: A travel counselor has the responsibility of providing complete guidance on travel to clients. A counselor ensures the best travel deals for the clients. Tour Operator: A tour operator is a professional who organizes tours and manages the travel and stay of tourists. Many companies operate tours for domestic as well as international clients and thus require tour operators. Travel Writer: A travel writer is responsible for writing an array of stories.

MBA in Travel and Tourism is a 2-year post graduate degree program. The program teaches the students with relevant management skills required in the travel industry. Graduates of this specialization, work in hotels, hospitality and catering industry, international and national food chains, food-craft institutes.
There are a number of good universities in India. Some of the features of a good university are good practical and industrial exposure, good placements, skill development programs, professional enhancement training and exposure to its students and along with this how much scholarship is provided by the university to the students. Lovely Professional University is one of the leading university in north India now. LPUs business school is accredited by the Accreditation Council for Business Schools and Program (ACBSP).Recently Ministry of Human Resource Government of India Ranked Lovely Professional University No. 2 in India in Management. This course will give you an exposure in management field. After completing BBA, you can go for MBA. MBA will provide highly challenging job for you. Different specializations are there in MBA. If you are looking for a career in marketing, then MBA in Marketing is a good option,Because now a days mostly companies recruited students for marketing jobs Every year Around 550+ companies visit every year for such activities and campus-recruitment of students from LPU. Companies likes Colgate Palmolive, Hindustan Unilever, Godrej Consumer, SAP Labs, Asian Paints, Bajaj Allianz, Federal Bank,Moodys Analytics, Blue Star, Zomato,Berger Paints, Marico, Havells, Apollo Munich Health Insurance, CavinCare, Hetitch, Nerolac Paints, Oyo Rooms, S& P Global Market Intelligence, HDFC Bank, Swiggy,Kotak Mahindra Bank, Luminous Power etc. Also, in my view, I think you should not worry about the placements. If you work hard in the course and learn as much as you can, any company visiting the campus would be happy to hire you. However, you must not neglect polishing your communication skills as well, because companies will check that in their interviews. LPU provides plenty of opportunities to its students to take part in events, competitions, fests in order to let them grow their personality and give them a chance to polish their skills. LPU provides different classes for placements which helps in grooming.