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Travel Experts Share Career Advice at WTM London
Jamie-Lee
Abtar, brand marketing manager for Not in the Guidebooks spoke about how a day
at WTM London when she was a tourism undergraduate led to two important
internships.
She
later used LinkedIn to target SMEs and was selected as one of travel industry
magazine TTG’s 30 Under 30 Tomorrow’s Travel leaders, which gave her a
like-minded cohort. Paying it back, she more recently worked with social
enterprise and mentorship programme Women in Travel CIC during the pandemic and
launched podcast In the Travel Know to talk about career progression.
She
advised newcomers: “Master your market, follow the travel industry magazines
and platforms… download ABTA [travel industry association] reports… so when
you’re speaking to people you can confidently talk about the area you’re
interested in.”
She
added they should find a mentor, build a “personal brand” talking about aspects
of travel that interest them online and in person and “network, network,
network”.
It
was a theme picked up by Jo Rzymowska, founder of Jovolution who said in her
multifaceted career, “pretty much all of my moves have come through
networking.”
She
added: “Customer service is the winning formula you all need to think about if
you’re going to work in the industry.”
In
a panel discussion on Bridging the Gap Between Education and Industry, easyJet
Holidays’ senior strategy manager Louie Davis advised jobseekers to build
awareness of the factors influencing travel on a global and political scale.
Speaking
about opportunities he commented: “There will be jobs that exist for tomorrow
that don’t exist today,” adding that AI and sustainability were the two big
themes “that will define the industry in the coming years.”
Image
Credit: © WTM
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