From tourist information officer to tourist information centre manager
12 of the 32 essential skills of a tourist information centre manager are already essential for a tourist information officer — about 38% of the job, before you learn anything new. It is the closest move from tourist information officer in the whole taxonomy.
These numbers compare two occupations, not you and a job. What you personally already cover depends on what you have actually done.
- 12
- skills carry over
- 20
- would be new
- 38%
- of the target job covered
- 32
- essential skills of a tourist information centre manager
What a tourist information centre manager does
Tourist information centre managers are in charge of managing employees and activities of a centre which provides information and advice to travellers and visitors about local attractions, events, travelling and accommodation.
What carries over
12 skillsEssential in both jobs. This is the part of the move you have already made.
- apply foreign languages in tourism
- build a network of suppliers in tourism
- comply with food safety and hygiene
- develop tourist information materials
- distribute local information materials
- geographical areas relevant to tourism
- handle personal identifiable information
- local area tourism industry
- maintain customer records
- maintain customer service
- provide tourism related information
- respond to customers' inquiries
What would be new
20 skillsEssential for a tourist information centre manager and not for a tourist information officer. Note that the taxonomy describes activities rather than tools, so some of these may be things you already do under a different name.
- analyse data about clients
- assess an area as a tourism destination
- build business relationships
- create solutions to problems
- design materials for multimedia campaigns
- design press kit for media
- develop financial statistics reports
- develop strategies for accessibility
- ensure infrastructure accessibility
- handle touristic quantitative data
- have computer literacy
- keep up to date on local events
- manage budgets
- manage medium term objectives
- manage staff
- oversee the design of touristic publications
- oversee the printing of touristic publications
- present reports
- recruit employees
- tourism market
Other moves from tourist information officer
1 roles- travel agent11 skills in common
← tourist information officertourist information centre manager →The other way round
No account needed to start
How far are you from being a tourist information centre manager?
MyNodes reads your CV once, maps it to this same taxonomy, and shows you which roles you are already closest to and the few skills that would open the most doors. The file is deleted as soon as it has been read.