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Where a tourism policy director can go next

5 destinations recorded, ranked by how much of the target role a tourism policy director already meets. The closer to the top of Table 1, the less there is to learn.

Tourism policy directors develop and implement policies to improve tourism to their region. They develop marketing plans to promote the region in foreign regions, and monitor the operation of the tourism industry. They conduct research to investigate how tourism policies could be improved and implemented and investigate the benefits of the tourism industry to the government.

Also known as director of economic development, tourism policy manager, director of visitor attractions, policy director tourism, economic development director, visitor attraction director, tourism strategy director, manager of tourism policy, director tourism strategy.

Managers 30 skills on file 5 career moves 0 above 60% overlap Closest: foreign affairs officer, 37%

Fig. 2 · Career map 5 nearest · ESCO v1.2.1
foreign affairs officer 37% covered political affairs officer 37% covered ambassador 32% covered embassy counsellor 31% covered international relations offic… 30% covered tourism policy director You are here
  • 70% and above · short step
  • 50 to 70% · real move
  • Below 50% · substantial retraining
The 5 nearest destinations from tourism policy director, each one a link to that move’s record. Distance from the centre is how much retraining the move takes; the figure on each is how much of that role a tourism policy director already covers. All 5 are listed in the tables below.
Table 1

Table 1 · A bigger jump

Possible, but expect real retraining rather than a sideways step.

Table 2

Table 2 · What the job itself asks for

A tourism policy director needs 10 required skills and areas of knowledge. They say the most about the work.

Required skill Area
  • develop tourism policies management skills
  • coordinate public-private partnerships in tourism communication, collaboration and creativity
  • deliver presentations on tourism communication, collaboration and creativity
  • environmental impact of tourism services
  • assess an area as a tourism destination information skills
  • tourist resources of a destination for further development services
  • measure sustainability of tourism activities information skills
  • plan measures to safeguard cultural heritage management skills
  • plan measures to safeguard natural protected areas assisting and caring
  • tourism market services
Table 3

Table 3 · Jobs that lead here

The reverse view: occupations whose skills already cover much of what a tourism policy director does. The figure is how much of this job each one brings.

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Tourism policy director is filed under Managers, ISCO major group 1. The full index lists all ten groups.

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How these figures were compiled

Overlap is how much of the target role is already part of a tourism policy director’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.