Certification > TESOL Specialization Courses
Teaching Tourism English
Millions of
Professionals in the Global Tourism Industry Require Specialized English
Skills. Enter This Exciting Field By Becoming Certified to Teach Tourism
English!
The fastest
growing industry in the world is in desperate need of Specialized English
teachers.
Course Overview:
Do you enjoy
traveling or do you have experience in the tourism industry? This
specialization offers the best of both worlds…getting paid to work in a fun
and exciting
TESOL field, almost everywhere.
Tourism is an
industry that continues to grow annually. Millions of non-native English
speakers worldwide are planning to or already work in this industry, but
lack the skills
to effectively communicate with English speaking tourists. Student's range
from store
clerks to hotel staff to tour guides…anyone involved in the tourism
industry. As a result,
numerous job possibilities are available to graduates of this TESOL
specialization
course. Job opportunities are divided into different groups: hotel agents,
planners and
travel suppliers, spas and resorts staff, B&B's, airlines, cruise lines,
entertainment…
Advanced job opportunities are open to people with tourism, sales/marketing,
managerial, PR and/or related backgrounds.
In order for
foreign students to achieve their professional goals, they must acquire the
proper education, and be fluent in English.
This industry offers hospitality and tourism
programs at the college level. Programs,
such as accommodation management, event and meeting management, bartending,
culinary training, restaurant and catering studies, tourism and travel,
cooking classes
and workshops, etc. offer certificates in the "tourism" category. Advanced
training
programs include certified travel agent and counselor programs. They need to
learn
how to work in these fields, as well as to communicate in English as they
work with
the tourism industry.
Course Content
- History of the tourism industry.
- Tourism English subject matter and knowledge.
- Specific vocabulary units
- Related idioms
- Methods that are tailored to this subject
- Classroom teaching
- Grammatical structures to be incorporated into course materials
- Tools and practical examples
- A touch of humor
- Case studies
Course Requirements:
- Relevant tasks
- Marketing assignment
- History task
- Geography task
- Customs and traditions assignment
- Jobs in tourism assignment
- Job search task
- Write your resume task
- City tour task
- Where to stay task
- Dining out assignment
- Tourism Changes Culture
-
Unpredictable Situations
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