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Where a tourism product manager can go next

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

Tourism product managers analyse the market, research potential offers, develop products, plan and organise the distribution and marketing processes.

Also known as tourism distribution manager, tourism product developer.

Managers 48 skills on file 5 career moves 0 above 60% overlap Closest: destination manager, 53%

Fig. 2 · Career map 5 nearest · ESCO v1.2.1
destination manager 53% covered tour operator manager 44% covered tour operator representative 44% covered tour organiser 44% covered travel agency manager 43% covered tourism product manager You are here
  • 70% and above · short step
  • 50 to 70% · real move
  • Below 50% · substantial retraining
The 5 nearest destinations from tourism product manager, 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 product manager 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 product manager needs 37 required skills and areas of knowledge. These 10 are the ones fewest other jobs share, so they say the most about the work.

Required skill Area
  • develop travel charter programme management skills
  • develop tourism destinations communication, collaboration and creativity
  • develop tourism products communication, collaboration and creativity
  • produce content for tourism brochures communication, collaboration and creativity
  • assess an area as a tourism destination information skills
  • participate in tourism events communication, collaboration and creativity
  • tourist resources of a destination for further development services
  • manage production of destination promotional materials communication, collaboration and creativity
  • manage distribution of destination promotional materials communication, collaboration and creativity
  • carry out inventory planning management skills
Table 3

Table 3 · Jobs that lead here

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

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Tourism product manager 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 product 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.