What you can do with your tourism skills

Tourism workers have great customer service skills, cultural awareness and high levels of professionalism. If you've been working as a travel agent, tour guide, hotel worker or customer service representative, find out how you can transfer those skills to other career options. 

Tourism workers often operate in fast-paced environments where they provide quality service to both domestic and international customers. The wide range of skills gained in the tourism industry include:

• a strong work ethic
• being able to relate to people from different cultures and backgrounds
• high attention to detail
• planning, organisation and time management
• public speaking
• sales and customer service experience
• the ability to maintain professionalism at all times.

The skills listed above are called transferable skills – the skills and abilities you have developed throughout different life experiences that can be transferred from one job to another. The transferable skills gained by working in tourism can be applied to a range of other jobs, including:

• Administration officer
• Contact centre worker
• Courier/delivery agent
• Mail and parcel sorter
• Personal assistant
• Real estate agent
• Sales representative
• Support worker
• Storeperson.

Find job vacancies here:

• Job vacancies and recruitment agency websites

This might be a time to consider other career options.

• Start to plan or change your career

• Go with Tourism website - help and support for tourism workers
• Your transferable skills can take you anywhere
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• Use our skill matcher tool
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