| Never before have people travelled or needed to | | | | Today the Travel, Tourism & Hospitality industries |
| travel as much as they do today. Whether it is | | | | are some of the biggest and fastest growing in |
| for business or pleasure, for education or visiting | | | | the World. With the decline of the package |
| friends and relatives: hopping on a plane is as | | | | holiday, we have witnessed the increase in |
| common as hopping on a bus, and staying in a | | | | independent travel. We are no longer satisfied |
| hotel is as usual as staying at home. | | | | with a fortnight in Benidorm, but are travelling |
| In light of this, and the realisation of how small our | | | | further and further a field. So, no matter which |
| world has become, the necessity of speaking | | | | small corner of the Globe you work in, you are |
| English has never been more relevant. English has | | | | sure to come across a tourist or traveller, and no |
| become the lingua franca of the modern world of | | | | doubt the easiest way to communicate will be in |
| travel. | | | | English. |
| People have always had a desire to travel. In the | | | | Working in tourism today could mean a job in any |
| past there were the great explorers and pioneers | | | | number of different sectors. Air travel is now |
| who forged a path for us to follow - not least of | | | | dominated by no-frills airlines, package holidays |
| all Thomas Cook, who remains a household name | | | | venture to increasingly exotic destinations, luxury |
| today. | | | | cruises with a different port of call visited every |
| In those days though, the trend was more | | | | day is no longer restricted to the very wealthy, |
| towards the holiday camps, weekends by the | | | | and hotels, both large chains and independents, |
| English seaside, and donkey rides on the beach in | | | | are like a home from home. |
| Blackpool and Brighton. Then, with the advent of | | | | The ability to communicate in English is essential to |
| commercial jets, the trend changed to packages | | | | work in all of these fields and a career in Travel, |
| on the Spanish Costas. | | | | Tourism or Hospitality Management is as |
| Nowadays, we have even gone that step further | | | | enjoyable and fulfilling today as it always has been. |
| and the trend is more towards Barbados than | | | | Certainly, the needs of today's travellers have |
| Bognor. With this growth in international travel has | | | | changed and their expectations have grown, but |
| come the need for an international language, and | | | | this only serves to make the job even more |
| English has become exactly that: the ubiquitous | | | | challenging and satisfying. |
| international language. | | | | |