Tourism and Travel Management – cooperative (BA)

In the travel planning department, you will put together package holidays, coordinating with hotels, airlines and other local partners. You will negotiate terms, calculate prices and ensure that the end result is a well-rounded travel package. In doing so, you will keep an eye on key performance indicators and ensure that the package is commercially viable. In travel sales, you then ensure that the packages reach the right customers, whether in a travel agency, online or via other sales channels.

You’ll be well suited to this role if you enjoy negotiating, keeping an eye on the market and take pleasure in putting together attractive offers.

Whether it’s a trade fair, a conference or a corporate trip: you plan and organise events from start to finish. This involves booking venues, artists, staff and service providers, obtaining permits and keeping an eye on the budget. During the event, you coordinate all processes and ensure that everything runs smoothly. You work closely with clients.

For this role, you’ll need organisational skills, a passion for teamwork and the ability to keep a cool head, even in stressful situations.

Tourist destinations need people who know their strengths and promote them to the wider world. They market regions, towns and countries both at home and abroad, develop offers for visitors and support local businesses. Their aim is to make a holiday destination attractive to travellers whilst safeguarding the interests of all those involved. To this end, you maintain relationships with public authorities, local councils, the retail sector, the hotel industry and the hospitality sector. Interaction with other tourism service providers is also part of your day-to-day work.

Diplomatic skills and strong communication skills are essential in this profession. An interest in political contexts is an advantage.

Within organisations, clear structures ensure that business travel runs smoothly. In business travel management, you organise trips for companies and ensure that staff travel safely, efficiently and within budget. In this role, you plan processes, develop travel policies and liaise with service providers. You may work either for specialist business travel agencies or directly within a company’s travel management department. 

As well as organisational skills and a structured approach to work, negotiation skills when dealing with airlines, rail operators and hotels, as well as a keen awareness of costs, will also be of great help to you.