♡ BTS TOURISM ♡

ℋℯ𝓎! 𝐼 𝒽ℴ𝓅ℯ 𝓎ℴ𝓊’𝓇ℯ 𝒹ℴ𝒾𝓃𝑔 𝓌ℯ𝓁𝓁.

It’s now been a month since classes started again, and I have so much to tell you...

I’m currently in my first year of a Tourism BTS (a French two-year higher education diploma), and it’s really tough. People might think it’s an “easy tourism” program, but that’s not the case at all — you really have to hang in there.

We do a lot of presentations and oral exams in Spanish, English, and French (just to clarify, French is my native language and I’m studying in France, in Le Puy-en-Velay, in the Haute-Loire region).

Now, the question you’re probably asking is: “What exactly is a Tourism BTS?”

Well, let me explain.

First of all, I should mention that I’m in a semi-private school.
That means I get the benefits of private education without the downsides.
My program is actually split across three different institutions.

That’s for the side note, now let’s get to the explanation:

The Tourism BTS is a two-year degree that trains people to work in all areas related to tourism: travel agencies, hotels, tourist offices, events, transportation, and more.
In the first year, you learn a little bit of everything to build a solid foundation.

You study general culture and communication, basically learning how to write and speak properly so you can be professional with clients and partners.
You also study two foreign languages, often English plus another one (Spanish, German, Italian…), because in tourism you always need to communicate internationally.
There’s a big subject called Tourism and Territories, which is basically tourism geography: you learn how a place becomes a destination, why people go there, and how it’s organized.
Then there’s tourist customer relations, which is all about learning to welcome, advise, handle situations with clients, solve their problems, and keep them coming back.
You also have tourism product design, which means creating offers: building trips, calculating costs, choosing providers, organizing transport and activities.
Another subject is tourism information management, where you learn how to find, sort, and use relevant information: databases, digital tools, documents, the internet, and social media.
Finally, there are professional workshops, which are very practical: projects, role-playing, case studies, sometimes organizing tourism events — basically putting you in real-life situations.

All of this in the first year is meant to give you strong skills: speaking, writing, understanding the industry, designing offers, and above all being confident with clients.

I should also mention that I actually want to become a forest ranger, and I don’t enjoy the Tourism BTS at all. That’s why I’m planning to change my path in the second year.

𝐼 𝒽ℴ𝓅ℯ 𝓎ℴ𝓊 𝓁𝒾𝓀ℯ𝒹 𝓉𝒽𝒾𝓈 𝓁𝒾𝓉𝓉𝓁ℯ 𝓊𝓅𝒹𝒶𝓉ℯ, 𝒶𝓃𝒹 𝐼’𝓁𝓁 𝒿𝓊𝓈𝓉 𝓈𝒶𝓎: 𝓉𝒶𝓀ℯ 𝒸𝒶𝓇ℯ ℴ𝒻 𝓎ℴ𝓊𝓇𝓈ℯ𝓁𝓋ℯ𝓈 𝒶𝓃𝒹 𝓂ℴ𝓈𝓉 𝒾𝓂𝓅ℴ𝓇𝓉𝒶𝓃𝓉𝓁𝓎, 𝒹ℴ 𝓌𝒽𝒶𝓉 𝓂𝒶𝓀ℯ𝓈 𝓎ℴ𝓊 𝒽𝒶𝓅𝓅𝓎 <3

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