Data analytics, financial acumen are keys to a great career in travel & tourism

It is understandable why many who have worked in the travel & tourism industry are looking elsewhere, or are already gainfully employed in other sectors. What then must students and trainees be thinking?

Fortunately, sayings like ‘every cloud has a silver lining’ and ‘it’s always darkest before the dawn’ have metaphorical truth. In this “Good Tourism” Insight, human resources and recruitment expert Andrew Chan points to the opportunities emerging from the COVID-19 crisis and offers advice.

While COVID-19 lingers and most countries’ borders remain restrictive to travel, overall employment prospects for travel & tourism students and trainees should be broken down into the short, medium, and long term.

The immediate future remains somewhat bleak, unfortunately, as it has been since the beginning of 2020. The sector has lost a sizeable number of travel and hospitality graduates over the past two years to other industries. Potentially we might lose another batch of graduates in 2022.

That’s three years of future talents lost which will have a huge impact once the pandemic is behind us and tourism recovers. And it is something human resource and business leaders should find most concerning, not forgetting that prior to the pandemic, the travel & hospitality industry faced a talent crunch as tourism boomed.

I have no doubt we will get back to breaking records eventually. It is inevitable. So the long-term prospects are obviously very positive for those looking to enter and/or remain in the sector.

The bright spots for talents looking to enter the travel & tourism industry now are ... For full and free access to this "GT" Insight and many others, please visit https://goodtourismblog.com/2021/09/data-analytics-financial-acumen-are-keys-to-a-great-career-in-travel-tourism/