Travel and Tourism - Orange Coast College

Travel and Tourism from Orange Coast College is a Campus Associate Tourism Management degree that prepares you for a Hospitality career. Travel and Tourism is the largest industry in the world! It encompasses airline, bus, rail, and ship travel; hospitality enterprises (hotels, motels, resorts); tour packaging; retail and wholesale travel agencies; car rental; etc. Each of these areas has employment needs on several levels: sales, market research and development, packaging and advertising, customer service, operations, and general management . Graduates will find full-time, part-time, and seasonal work in offices, as well as working out of home. Positions are available with corporate and leisure travel agencies, host travel agencies for independent contractors, tour operators, wholesalers, airline consolidators, car rental companies and hotels/motels/resorts. The associate degree program in Travel and Tourism introduces students to the principles and procedures of domestic and international travel . Emphasis is placed on tourism geography, automated travel systems, and management skills needed to succeed in the travel industry. Students participate in a term-long internship rotating through various sites, including an international tour operation, the State Tourism Information Booth at a local airport, convention and visitor???s bureaus, and tour guiding at a local attraction. The culmination of the internship experience is a tour to a selected destination for which student???s research, negotiate, and develop a highly focused itinerary for their eagerly anticipated journey. Upon completion of the program, students have the opportunity to enter the travel and tourism industry or may choose to continue their studies in the bachelor???s degree program of Travel-Tourism Management , Hospitality Management, and International Hotel & Tourism Management . Program Outcome The outcome of the Associate in Science Degree level is to prepare students for employment as a supervisor or manager within the travel and tourism industry. In addition, the outcome of this level is for students to transfer. View more details on Orange Coast College . Ask your questions and apply online for this program or find other related Tourism Management courses.