Mar 24, 2015

This is My Advice, Touristologists!!!



Sometimes, Touristologists improving their studies abroad ask me advice about what to do next.
My Advice? Look for a travel agency willing to send tourists to your native country OR for a chain of hotels willing to open/manage a hotel in your native country OR  for an airline company willing to open a route to your native country OR a tourism consultancy company OR a rent a car OR a revenue management software company OR… I could go on for a month but I think I have made my point!
Don’t look for a big salary (nothing wrong if they offer it!), look for the opportunity to show your skills, your attitude, your contacts… gain their trust and become the obvious choice to be the manager of their branch in your native country!
We are Touristologists! The world is our office! And… YES! We are, definitely, the best minds working in the best sector ever!
Is it seems difficult? Do you have doubts? Do you think that you don’t have what it takes? Don’t listen to me… Listen to your guts! Listen to the old master!
Yes, there were times, I'm sure you knew
When I bit off more than I could chew.
But through it all, when there was doubt,
I ate it up and spit it out.
I faced it all and I stood tall;
And did it my way.
……
For what is a man, what has he got?
If not himself, then he has naught.
To say the things he truly feels;
And not the words of one who kneels.
The record shows I took the blows -
And did it my way! 

Mar 17, 2015

Stand up Touristologists!

The other day I saw this video. They want to convey the idea that to become a Touristologist is a bad choice… You know that I have retired for blogging for a while BUT… Enough is enough!
Stand up Touristologists! Show to the world who has a doubtful / questionable / uncertain / chancy future!
A girl appears in the video bemoaning the fact “nowadays on-line travel agencies are the strongest” Didn’t you learn how to create and manage an on-line Travel Agency? Change of University NOT change the best sector ever!!!
Another one complain “Anyone can work in Tourism” Yes! BUT, only Touristologists are able to change the way we enjoy, manage and define Tourism!
You are Touristologists! The world is your office! You can work anywhere! You can bring Tourists from anywhere to anyplace!
You know the main tendencies in travel motivation around the world. You know languages, you know how to apply new technologies to improve the tourism sector… you are the best minds working in the best sector ever!
If you want to know about the big opportunities that Tourism can bring to you…
Don’t listen to copyologists! They always do the same. They have an old fashion vision about our sector.
Don’t listen to journalists with a lack of knowledge about Tourism (just remember, they still believe that the success of a Tourism destination or a lodging can be assessed by the number of tourists)
Don’t listen to people with interest that you study another science.
If you REALLY want to be a Touristologists…
If you really want to know the opportunities of Tourism… ask REAL Touristologists!!! Miguel Angel, Roman, Sara, Roger, Nicole, Miriam, Sergi, Pau, Esther, … The kind of Touristologists
that have a kind of Master and Commander Attitude! I can see them creating the new killer start-up, changing the way we enjoy, manage and define Tourism….Making me as proud as can be!
To the simple-minded...
To the excuse searchers…
To the I-don't- know- and- I'm- proud- of-it…
To the I-don’t-know-about-Tourism-but-I-dare-to-give-my-opinion
…..
This is OUR message!