Tourism - Travel Fanshawe College

Overview

Throughout this Tourism - Travel Graduate Diploma offered at Fanshawe College you will focus on travel advising, customer sales and service, flights and fares, group tour management, travel business operations, package holidays and hotel operations. Our tourism courses will also teach you world geography and the latest computer technology used in the industry, as well as skills in marketing, customer relations, promotion and social media. 

Gain valuable experience with a co-op work term consisting of 420 hours of paid employment. Enjoy an (optional) international field study trip on a seven-night Caribbean cruise as well as local field trips and regular guest lecturers from the industry. In your final semester, you’ll complete an international group tour capstone project where you’ll create a business plan, marketing plan and presentation to launch the tour to classmates and peers and industry partners. Students also have the opportunity to participate in student mentoring through the Baxter Student Ambassador Program.

Career opportunities:

The Tourism – Travel program offers a cooperative education component, which provides students the opportunity to gain invaluable first-hand experience in their chosen field. Here are some co-op jobs that have kick-started the careers of some Tourism – Travel students before even graduating! 

• Ticket Sales Agent

Be the go-to person for informing customers about boarding procedures; printing, sorting and distributing boarding passes, explaining products and services and answering questions from customers.

• Front Desk Representative

Provide professional and personalized interactions with guests throughout their check-in/check-out process. You will also serve as a main contact responding to inquiries and providing information.to resort guests and staff.

• Campground Administration

Learn the entire process of running a campground, including scheduling reservations, informing customers of local attractions, retail experience in the camp store and balancing end-of-day reports.