VGM Professional Careers Series Offers high-level information about the many job choices within various professional career fields. Each book provides complete information about a given specialty, including responsibilities, opportunities for advancement, and salaries. An excellent choice for career planning courses offered by professional schools and departments.

Whether you want to spend your days outside leading tours or in the kitchen preparing delicious meals for customers, the travel and hospitality industries offer a diverse array of career opportunities.

This new career-focused title explores career paths in the growing fields of hospitality and tourism. Written for high school and undergraduate students, this series will help students explore their futures, and set goals in these exciting and growing fields. This title examines 20 occupations in hospitality and tourism which encompasses the management, marketing and operations of restaurants, lodging, attractions, recreation events and other travel related services. Careers covered in the text include Chef, Cosmetologist, Fitness Trainer, Florist, Gardener, Hotel Manager, Interior Designer, Pilot, Sailor, Travel Agent, and many more. Chapters provide an inside-look at the career options within a particular profession, including: Overview: Sphere of Work; A Day in the Life; Work Environment: Physical, Human, Technological; Education & Training: Schooling, Licensing, Adult Job Seekers; Earnings & Advancement; Areas with the Highest Employment Levels; Employment Outlook; Associations & Business Contacts to Jumpstart Networking; Plus Famous Firsts, Occupation Specialties, Skills & Abilities, Fun Facts; Conversations with Real Professionals, including "What I Wish I Had Known". - Publisher.

Even in challenging economic times, the hospitality industry is one career field that has consistently proven itself to hold out against difficult financial circumstances. Hundreds of thousands of new job posts are added each year to the already over twelve million people working in the events, food, lodging, and tourism industries. In these pages, exciting work opportunities in these four subcategories of the hospitality field are served up with a smile, giving readers practical steps to finding and excelling in their dream job as a chef, an event coordinator, a museum guide, or in one of the many other exciting jobs explored here.

Hospitality Career Opportunities: Learn Secrets to Get Jobs in Hotel, Restaurant and Cruise Industry is undoubtedly the BEST Job training manual in the market written only for hospitality management students & workers. This book provides solid information about a variety of careers within the hospitality industry and includes training and education requirements, salary statistics, and professional and Internet resources. You may wonder why I am claiming this manual as the BEST HOTEL and RESTAURANT MANAGEMENT JOB TRAINING GUIDE. Simply because of these following unique features that this book provides: Exclusive List of questions that are asked in Hotel & Restaurant Job Interviews. Most complete & updated list of Hotel, Restaurant & Cruise Industry related web sites, Official career pages, and relevant social networking links for getting Jobs. Detail instructions on how to prepare hospitality industry standard resume, cover letter, thank you letter and many more. Detail descriptions on all proven job hunting strategies. Complete guideline on how to manage both advertised and non-advertised jobs. Detail instructions on how to manage jobs through online resources. Expert Career advice for career advancement. Updated industry Information like latest hiring trends and current salary etc. Covers various carrier options available in hotel, restaurant, cruise ships, airlines etc.

This important new book gives the first comprehensive overview of key concepts, theories and knowledge relating to youth employment in the Tourism sector.

An organization’s workforce is arguably the greatest asset of any organization, and tourism and hospitality is an extremely labor-intensive industry. This volume takes an in-depth look at workforce issues in the tourism and hospitality industry, focusing on labor skills, ethics, rights, and more. It examines manpower planning beyond forecasting estimates to include investigative techniques in a way that offers insight for economic planning in both tourism and tourism education. The authors use economic, sociological, and psychological analysis and take a pragmatic stance on the challenges of the workforce. The authors look at the specifics of the labor market of the tourism and hospitality industry, discussing the current status of the industry’s organizations and how they are suffering labor shortages (qualitative or quantitative) and constant turnover—resulting in significant costs to organizations. Topics such as low wages and overdependence on tipping, workforce diversity, technological change resistance, and seasonality issues, and more are examined. The volume also provides a section on labor rights in the tourism and hospitality industry, which looks at labor trafficking and issues in social justice and human rights. Key features: • Provides an in-depth understanding of tourism employment • Presents a critical analysis of labor supply and demand in the tourism and hospitality industries • Considers the need for specific labor skills and training • Examines the reasons for labor shortages and turnover in the tourism and hospitality industry • Discusses labor ethics and social responsibility in hospitality/tourism organizations