Where a tour operator manager can go next
12 destinations recorded, ranked by how much of the target role a tour operator manager already meets. The closer to the top of Table 1, the less there is to learn.
Tour operator managers are in charge of managing employees and of activities within tour operators related to the organisation of package tours and other tourism services.
Also known as tour operators manager, package tour operators manager, package tour operator manager, package tour services manager, package tour manager.
Managers 51 skills on file 12 career moves 0 above 60% overlap Closest: destination manager, 56%
- 70% and above · short step
- 50 to 70% · real move
- Below 50% · substantial retraining
Table 1 · A bigger jump
Possible, but expect real retraining rather than a sideways step.
- destination manager 56% covered · difficulty 56.7
- tourism product manager 55% covered · difficulty 57.1
- travel agency manager 52% covered · difficulty 58.6
- tour operator representative 45% covered · difficulty 61.2
- tourist information centre manager 44% covered · difficulty 64.6
- tour organiser 42% covered · difficulty 64.7
- tourist animator 39% covered · difficulty 61.9
- customer experience manager 34% covered · difficulty 68.8
- accommodation manager 31% covered · difficulty 68.9
- travel agent 31% covered · difficulty 77
- hospitality revenue manager 31% covered · difficulty 67.3
- travel consultant 30% covered · difficulty 74.5
Table 2 · What the job itself asks for
A tour operator manager needs 30 required skills and areas of knowledge. These 10 are the ones fewest other jobs share, so they say the most about the work.
- negotiate tourism rates communication, collaboration and creativity
- translate strategy into operation management skills
- develop tourism products communication, collaboration and creativity
- prepare travel packages management skills
- provide customised products communication, collaboration and creativity
- select optimal distribution channel management skills
- oversee the design of touristic publications management skills
- oversee the printing of touristic publications management skills
- develop strategies for accessibility management skills
- build a network of suppliers in tourism communication, collaboration and creativity
Table 3 · Jobs that lead here
The reverse view: occupations whose skills already cover much of what a tour operator manager does. The figure is how much of this job each one brings.
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Tour operator manager is filed under Managers, ISCO major group 1. The full index lists all ten groups.
How these figures were compiled
Overlap is how much of the target role is already part of a tour operator manager’s work. It is directional: the figure for the reverse move differs. Every entry above opens the full comparison for that move: what carries over, what is missing, and where to start. The full method.