New Website Helps Displaced Tourism Industry Workers

The Travel Industry Association of America (TIA), in partnership with the Travel & Tourism Coalition and the Travel Business Roundtable, created a website to help tourism industry workers displaced by hurricane Katrina find new jobs. This website will allow tourism companies to post job openings, and will allow victims to post their resumes and list their skills. The goal in creating this website was to match as many hurricane victims with as many jobs as possible. The associations that created the website represent many tourism companies, and claim that most of the tourism industry is trying to help employ displaced workers wherever possible.

Website will show Resumes with Online Tourism Degrees

Although this website probably won't help those looking for tourism jobs outside of the hurricane region, the website entitled www.katrinajobs.org is a good place to compare your resume with others looking to find tourism jobs. By looking at this site, you may be able to get a sense of what you need to accomplish in school before being able to seriously compete in the tourism job marketplace. If you want to become a travel agent, for example, you'll probably see that many ambitious people spent time in travel agent school, or at some other travel agent training program. Many other qualified tourism workers will have an online degree in travel and tourism on their resumes. Online colleges are great for those who already hold fulltime jobs but want a 2nd degree to advance their careers. Online degrees in travel and tourism are geared toward those who have to balance their work and educations. Classes can be watched anytime over the web, and homework can be emailed back and forth between instructors and students. This system allows students to have a lot more academic flexibility than they would have in a traditional college system.

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