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Hotel and Tourism Careers

From a first shadow shift to running a hotel: entry qualifications, front office, food and beverage and housekeeping skills, guiding licences, the first job and shift life, specialising and moving into management.

Free · Mac (Apple silicon) and Windows · v1.0.0 · Other platforms

Then open the Marketplace in the app, search for Hotel and Tourism Careers, and click Install. It goes into your own files, and works offline from then on.

What it installs.

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Starter tasks

🧰 Professions & Trades

Hotel and Tourism Careers

Building a career in hotels and tourism: front office, food and beverage, housekeeping, guest relations, hospitality qualifications and moving into management.

  1. Shadow shifts in two hotel departments
  2. Map of hotel departments and tourism roles
  3. Entry qualifications for hospitality study
  4. Hospitality training routes compared
  5. Paying for hotel school with scholarships and sponsorship
  6. Food handler permit and food safety certificate
  7. First aid and CPR certificate for guest-facing work
  8. Police certificate, medical and work documents
  9. Hospitality CV with a guest service profile
  10. Front desk check-in and check-out drills
  11. Property management system basics
  12. Reservations by phone, email and online channels
  13. Night audit and end-of-day balancing
  14. Restaurant table service and order taking
  15. Bar service and responsible alcohol service
  16. Room attendant cleaning standard and timing
  17. Guest complaint recovery and difficult conversations
  18. Second language for guest contact
  19. Destination knowledge file for guest questions
  20. Tour guide training and licence
  21. Hotel internship or industrial attachment
  22. Applying for a first hotel job before high season
  23. Hotel interview with a guest scenario role-play
  24. Comparing hotel offers, service charge and tips
  25. First ninety days in a hotel department
  26. Shift rota, rest days and sleep around split shifts
  27. Tips and service charge income record
  28. Guest compliments and review mentions file
  29. Chemical, lifting and fire safety at work
  30. Hurricane season duties and staff readiness
  31. Monthly one-to-one with your supervisor
  32. Low season hours and income plan
  33. Hospitality association membership and network
  34. Annual appraisal and pay review preparation
  35. Choosing rooms division or food and beverage
  36. Cross-training in a second department
  37. Industry certification for your hotel role
  38. Guest relations and VIP arrival programme
  39. Preparing your department for a brand audit
  40. Joining a hotel pre-opening team
  41. Studying while working hotel shifts
  42. Career changer moving into hotels and tourism
  43. Parent managing childcare around hotel shifts
  44. Hotel work abroad through legitimate recruiters
  45. First supervisor role on a hotel shift
  46. Revenue management and room pricing fundamentals
  47. Hotel sales, groups and destination weddings
  48. Preparing for a department head role
  49. Starting a licensed tour or excursion business
  50. Route to hotel general manager

Where it starts.

Each project arrives with its purpose, milestones and first tasks written out. Here is how the first three read.

Shadow shifts in two hotel departments

Hotel work looks glamorous from the lobby and very different at 6 a.m. in the laundry or at 11 p.m. on the front desk. Shadowing two departments for a full shift each, ideally one front of house and one back of house, shows you the pace, the hours on your feet, the guest pressure and the teamwork before you spend money on a course or turn down another offer.

First tasks

  • List three hotels or guest houses within travelling distance you could ask
  • Call or email each human resources office asking to shadow a shift
  • Write notes on the evening after each shift while they are fresh
  • Record your decision and three reasons in a short note

Map of hotel departments and tourism roles

Hospitality is far wider than the front desk: rooms division, food and beverage service, guest relations, sales and events, revenue, finance and engineering, and beyond the hotel, tour guiding, attractions, travel agencies, tour operators and destination marketing.

First tasks

  • Ask the agent to draft a list of hotel departments and the entry role in each
  • Read current job listings from three hotels and attractions near you
  • Score each role against your strengths and the hours you can work
  • Circle three target roles and note what each one requires

Entry qualifications for hospitality study

Entry requirements differ between hotel schools and hospitality programmes, and the usual gap is English or mathematics. In the Caribbean that means checking your CSEC passes, with CAPE Tourism or a foreign language helping for degree routes; in the UK it means GCSEs plus a vocational hospitality qualification, and in the US or Canada a high school diploma. Checking now leaves time to resit before applications close.

First tasks

  • Find the entry requirements for three hospitality programmes you would consider
  • List your CSEC, GCSE or high school grades beside each requirement
  • Book a resit for any missing English or mathematics pass
  • Ask a school counsellor whether CAPE Tourism or a language would strengthen your application

Make it yours.

Install Hotel and Tourism Careers, then tell Aurum the date you're aiming for. It checks whether the plan fits the weeks you actually have.

Free · Mac (Apple silicon) and Windows · v1.0.0 · Other platforms

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