Tourism Sector & People Skills
Soft Skills make things happen!!
Teamwork
The nature of travel& tourism jobs definetely require you to have teamwork and other people skills to engage customers and provide them a great experience.
We borrow this definition of teamwork from http://www.the-happy-manager.com/articles/define-teamwork/
"When a group of people work together cohesively, towards a common goal, creating a positive atmosphere and supporting each other to combine individual strenghts to enhance team performance"
Some advantages of team work could be
- It leads to better ideas and decisions
- Produce higher quality results
- There is involvement of everyone in the process
- Increase empowerment and commitment of members
- High probability of implementing new ideas
- Information shared means higher learning
- Increase the understanding of the perspectives of others
- Increase the ability to display individual strengths
- Ability to compensate for individual weaknesses
- Provides a sense of security
- Develop relationships