With more people having the leisure time and the money to travel, the tourism industry is full of career opportunities. Travel professionals must be detail orientated, articulate, service-oriented, and knowledgeable about airlines, hotels and destinations.

Which high school courses are recommended for someone interested in a career in the travel/tourism field? Well, courses in accounting, business, marketing, computer science, geography, English, and foreign language would provide a great background for someone interested in a travel/tourism career.

Report: Economic signs positive in region
After a blistering third quarter in 2003, Federal Reserve Board staffers have found more positive economic signs in their first look at the economy in 2004.

Daytona airport traffic up in 2003
Airline passenger traffic at Daytona Beach International Airport increased by 16 percent in 2003 as the airport served 565,563 passengers.

Here’s why tourists flock to us
Visitors come to Flagler County by cars, boats and private planes. Reasons for visiting the county vary, from family vacations to business trips.

Many seniors enjoy sailing off into sunset
What type of vacation are today’s seniors taking? They are choosing to go where they can have peace and quiet or an active party atmosphere, where there is plenty of food and entertainment and dress is casual or formal, whichever they want.

1. Go to your career section. Then, explore one or more of the web links related to this job. Make copies of web pages you find interesting and organize them into a reference file or notebook to share with others.

2. Search recent copies of The Daytona Beach News-Journal for evidence of this occupaion. Clip examples from display ads, classified ads, news articles, features, editorials, and the comics.

3. From the pages of The News-Journal, identify people and organizations that can be contacted for more information about this occupation. Investigate one or more and organize your findings into a scrapbook to share with your class. Please feel free to add useful ones to the Resource List for this occupation in the Job Center.

4. Clip words from The Daytona Beach News-Journal that describe, or are used in, this occupation. Define each and then, using Puzzlemaker.com, create a crossword puzzle to challenge friends or classmates.

5. Visit NewsVoyages.com and search for information about this job in online papers from other parts of the U.S. Print out pages that you find interesting and share them with your class or family.

Career Options and Opportunities: What’s in Your Future?
Just a few decades ago, after a person graduated from high school or college, he or she probably chose a job and settled into it-and stuck with it! Changing careers was not a thing most people considered. Nowadays, however, it’s not uncommon for people to change careers one or more times between graduation and retirement.

FLAUSA
Florida’s official vacation guide with Florida travel information from Visit Florida.
http://www.flausa.com/

Welcome to Daytona Beach
Daytona Beach area official visitor information website.
http://www.daytonabeach.com/

Breaking into travel and tourism
The travel industry was created out of the tourist industry. It all began in 1841, when Thomas Cook organised a rail excursion for 570 people.
http://workthing-d-aspen.workthing.com/front/channel/travel_leisure/viewpoints/breaking_inside.xml

Hospitality Travel Hotel Tourism Jobs and Employment on the Web
These hospitality, tourism, hotel, restaurant employment links will convince even the most skeptic of skeptics that the industry is full of opportunity.
http://omni.cc.purdue.edu/~alltson/career.htm

Discovery School’s Puzzlemaker
Puzzlemaker is a puzzle generation tool for teachers, students and parents. Create and print customized word search, crossword and math puzzles using your word lists.
http://www.puzzlemaker.com/

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