- Do u like holidays? Would you like to travel in the future?
- Do you want to try something different?
- Are you unsure about your future career path?
- Do you prefer coursework to exams?
- Then try Travel and Tourism

The travel and tourism industry has become one of today’s fastest growing industries. It provides services for tourists within Northern Ireland and for those going abroad on holidays. There is also a market created by Business travel, sometimes with conferences to be organized and accommodation arrangements to be made.

It covers a wide range of jobs, including all branches of the travel industry, hospitality in hotels and restaurants. Entertainment and recreation as well as all the tourist attraction in a particular region. Areas of work include:

- Tour Operators
- Travel Agencies
- Tourist Board/Tourist Information Centers
- Transport Companies
- Tour Guides
- Tourist Attractions

Staff in all these areas of employment work together to meet the needs of travelers. Tour Operators organize hotel bookings, flights, transfer arrangements and sell the tour as a package, either direct to the public or through a travel agency.

The Travel and Tourism course will allow you to develop a wide range of skills that are important in the workplace and will help increase your employability. IT, research, time management, teamwork, communication and customer service skills are all vital components of the course.

Whether you study this unit for one or two years this course will undoubtedly broaden your horizons. You may decide to take it further and do a degree course or go straight in to employment in the world’s largest industry. Many of our former students have gone on to do Tourism Management courses or have found employment within the industry but others have chosen to use the skills developed on the course in other specialist areas such as Business Studies, Psychology, Nursing, IT and Interior Design.

For many of you this will be an entirely new subject but for some of you it will be a progression from a GCSE involving tourism. You may also be asking what other AS levels it combines with. The answer is many such as – Business Studies, Law, Psychology, and Modern languages, English, Theatre Studies, Performing Arts, Sport and Physical Education.