Career Overlap Occupation record
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Where a travel consultant can go next

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

Travel consultants provide customised information and consultation on travel offers, make reservations and sell travel services together with other related services.

Also known as tourism promotion agent, business travel consultant, business travel advisor, leisure travel consultant, travel advisor.

Clerical support workers 48 skills on file 5 career moves 0 above 60% overlap Closest: travel agent, 59%

Fig. 2 · Career map 5 nearest · ESCO v1.2.1
travel agent 59% covered tourist animator 58% covered tour operator representative 57% covered tour organiser 54% covered tourist information officer 48% covered travel consultant You are here
  • 70% and above · short step
  • 50 to 70% · real move
  • Below 50% · substantial retraining
The 5 nearest destinations from travel consultant, 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 travel consultant 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 travel consultant needs 26 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
  • customise travel package communication, collaboration and creativity
  • advertise travel insurance communication, collaboration and creativity
  • devise tailor-made tourism itineraries communication, collaboration and creativity
  • sell tourist packages communication, collaboration and creativity
  • oversee all travel arrangements management skills
  • use global distribution system working with computers
  • build a network of suppliers in tourism communication, collaboration and creativity
  • measure sustainability of tourism activities information skills
  • plan measures to safeguard cultural heritage management skills
  • apply foreign languages in tourism communication, collaboration and creativity
Table 4

Table 4 · Jobs that lead here

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

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Travel consultant 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 travel consultant’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.