Today the tourism business in Russia is experiencing an unprecedented rise. There are several reasons for this: this is the country's gradual recovery from the crisis with the end of stagnation of the economy and the transition to recovery, and the simplification of registration of passports with the introduction of a visa-free tourist regime with an increasing number of countries, and the growth of the well-being of the middle class, which is indirectly confirmed by an increase in the consumption of goods (and travel packages are the same product). According to the pace of expansion in this segment of the labor market, more and more new vacancies are constantly opening up, but the flow of people who need work in tourism is very large. Here, demand is clearly ahead of supply, because work in tourism seems to be a lot of one endless romantic trip, where you don’t have to do anything special - just know to collect money from customers and get salaries and commissions from them. But in harsh reality, everything is far from so rosy. On the one hand, work in tourism is really well paid in most cases and is associated with travel both within the country and abroad, and on the other hand, tourism is just that sphere of business where the degree of competition is very high. Therefore, before you find a client and earn something, you will have to work hard and run at first, in the literal sense of the word. But nothing is impossible for a motivated person, and if you are determined to pursue a career in the travel industry, it’s useful to start with a few simple tips. Work in tourism usually starts with the position of tourism manager. There are plenty of offers of such vacancies in newspapers devoted to topics on search and job offers. But, as a rule, at first, the terms of remuneration of labor without any initial salary are offered, but simply a percentage of the transaction from the found client who issued the tour. The vast majority of applicants are “cut off” already at this initial stage, because without special preparation it is a very difficult task to find a client literally “from the street” in the conditions of fierce competition. Therefore, if you really need a real job in tourism, then you need to start searching for it with paid recruitment agencies, which are mainly addressed by travel agencies if they need an employee.
Be prepared for the fact that work in a travel agency will begin for you with a free internship, usually from 1 to 3 months. During this time, try to attract experienced managers who have been working in this company for a long time. Of course, they are unlikely to share their customer base with you, but they can give one or two. It may not be the most profitable customers, but it’s at least some beginning. In addition, having figured out in practice what constitutes work in a travel agency, you yourself will be able to imagine where to get real future clients. The second important factor is your mobility, since working in a travel agency for active people, you need to be constantly " field "in search of customers, but sitting in the office you won’t work much.
In the process of mastering the profession of a tourism manager , one should strive to become practically an expert in everything regarding the conditions of tours, the quality of hotels, especially with a view to matching the declared and real level of service with a word, to delve into everything. The fact is that the work in the tourism industry is designed so that self-respecting tour operators quite often send their expert staff on test tours so that they can see for themselves in person the level of starryness of a particular hotel, the overall quality of the service, the availability of all the entertainment listed in the price list so that later the clients had no complaints. Moreover, the hotels themselves, who are interested in the flow of guests, pay for such study trips. These are the trips that the tourism manager can regularly make. Of course, that such trips are entrusted only to competent employees, among which you must be. So everything is in your hands, good luck!