Master in Tourist Management
The manager of tourism for new generation
Technical Director of Travel Agency
The role of technical director belongs to the category of "Travel Agents". His/Her particular expertise, combined with the requirement to obtain one rating with specific characteristics, making it one of the most coveted in the industry and, as confirmed by the polls, with more job opportunites.
Tasks
The tasks of the Technical Director of travel agency might vary depending on the size of the structure. In large agencies, for example, the Technical Director 
performs only the functions of a manager: planning, design, decide, details. In many cases, however, especially when the Director is not the owner of the agency, but an employee may also perform duties as executive and deal directly with the promotion and sale of services. In smaller agencies, then, the Technical Director, in addition to fulfill its role of manager, carries out practical tasks and front office. A versatile figure, then, around which rotates the entire agency and from which depend the success and development of the structure and can enjoy a high degree of autonomy. Hence the need for knowledge and skill to 360 degrees, to be acquired with a high-level training.
Particularly, the technical director of travel agency will:
- Develop business strategies and financial policies, management and marketing
- defines the business objectives and plan the services offered by the structure
- manages and promotes the sale of services
Competences
The technical director of travel agency must have, along with a solid training both basic and specific qualities, which emphasises his position and make it essential - not only for legal purposes - for any structure: it must have initiative, decision power. He will be constantly in touch with his staff, motivate them, manage them. Managers need to know to perfection the work organization.
Professional qualification
The technical director of travel agency in order to practice his role, must have a high school diploma and, after Up level Master in Tourist Management, he will achieve certification through an examination organized by region or province. The exam consists of a written test and an oral test, to determine the skills in administration and organization of travel agents, technolog knowledge, law and geography of tourism and the knowledge of two foreign languages. In addition to training at the highest levels, we will provide the information and technical and bureaucratic for the this test. The Up Level Master in Tourist Management can be attended also by those who will not intend to attend the qualification test. Some of our students, in fact, wish to acquire the skills of a Technical Director to improve their skills and grow on the job, without necessarily obtaining the legal qualification.
The career
As for career opportunities, keep in mind that the Technical Director in fact enter the top staffing agency. Can not therefore have a career, but simply because it is impossible to go over the top! However, his income can vary widely, depending on the agency for which he works. Good training, along with solid experience in the field, enabling him to aspire to the direction of increasingly large and prestigious structures, or to go it alone and open her own agency.