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6. Teaching Tourism English

Millions of Professionals in the Global Tourism Industry Require Specialized English Skills. Enter This Exciting Field By Becoming Certified to Teach Tourism English!

The fastest growing industry in the world is in desperate need of Specialized English teachers.

Course Overview:

Do you enjoy traveling or do you have experience in the tourism industry? This specialization offers the best of both worlds…getting paid to work in a fun and exciting TESOL field, almost everywhere.

Tourism is an industry that continues to grow annually. Millions of non-native English speakers worldwide are planning to or already work in this industry, but lack the skills to effectively communicate with English speaking tourists. Student's range from store clerks to hotel staff to tour guides…anyone involved in the tourism industry. As a result, numerous job possibilities are available to graduates of this TESOL specialization course. Job opportunities are divided into different groups: hotel agents, planners and travel suppliers, spas and resorts staff, B&B's, airlines, cruise lines, entertainment… Advanced job opportunities are open to people with tourism, sales/marketing, managerial, PR and/or related backgrounds.

In order for foreign students to achieve their professional goals, they must acquire the proper education, and be fluent in English.

This industry offers hospitality and tourism programs at the college level. Programs, such as accommodation management, event and meeting management, bartending, culinary training, restaurant and catering studies, tourism and travel, cooking classes and workshops, etc. offer certificates in the "tourism" category. Advanced training programs include certified travel agent and counselor programs. They need to learn how to work in these fields, as well as to communicate in English as they work with the tourism industry.

Course Content:

  • History of the tourism industry.
  • Tourism English subject matter and knowledge.
  • Specific vocabulary units
  • Related idioms
  • Methods that are tailored to this subject
  • Classroom teaching
  • Grammatical structures to be incorporated into course materials
  • Tools and practical examples
  • A touch of humor
  • Case studies

    Course Requirements:

  • Relevant tasks
  • Marketing assignment
  • History task
  • Geography task
  • Customs and traditions assignment
  • Jobs in tourism assignment
  • Job search task
  • Write your resume task
  • City tour task
  • Where to stay task
  • Dining out assignment
  • Tourism Changes Culture
  • Unpredictable Situations

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