Career Overlap Occupation record
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Where a tourist information officer can go next

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

Tourist information officers provide information and advice to travellers about local attractions, events, travelling and accommodation.

Also known as tourist assistant, tourist information agent, tourist point information officer, tourist receptionist, tourist centre officer.

Clerical support workers 47 skills on file 5 career moves 1 above 60% overlap Closest: tour operator representative, 63%

Fig. 2 · Career map 5 nearest · ESCO v1.2.1
tour operator representative 63% covered ticket sales agent 56% covered tour organiser 54% covered tourist animator 54% covered travel consultant 51% covered tourist information offic… You are here
  • 70% and above · short step
  • 50 to 70% · real move
  • Below 50% · substantial retraining
The 5 nearest destinations from tourist information officer, 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 tourist information officer already covers. All 5 are listed in the tables below.
Table 1

Table 1 · Within reach

Table 2

Table 2 · A bigger jump

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

Table 3

Table 3 · What the job itself asks for

A tourist information officer needs 24 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
  • assist visitors assisting and caring
  • collect tourist information information skills
  • coordinate efforts of stakeholders for destination promotion communication, collaboration and creativity
  • produce content for tourism brochures communication, collaboration and creativity
  • develop tourist information materials communication, collaboration and creativity
  • demonstrate intercultural competences in hospitality services communication, collaboration and creativity
  • quote prices assisting and caring
  • devise special promotions management skills
  • build a network of suppliers in tourism communication, collaboration and creativity
  • provide directions to guests assisting and caring
Table 4

Table 4 · Jobs that lead here

The reverse view: occupations whose skills already cover much of what a tourist information officer does. The figure is how much of this job each one brings.

Index

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Tourist information officer is filed under Clerical support workers, ISCO major group 4. 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 tourist information officer’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.