Introducing Travel Alumni Spotlight: Where the Industry Went to School
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Getting to a front desk or to the top of a tourism board isn't always a straight path. We'll show you how people made it there.
Like most industries, travel is made up of a diverse network of professionals from all walks of life, career paths and educational experiences.
Some employees pursued degrees intent on becoming hoteliers or leaders of destination marketing organization (DMO), while others took a more unpredictable path on their journeys through the different sectors.
The Travel Alumni Spotlight is the latest installment of our State of Travel Education series, which is focused on showing how universities are preparing the industry's future talent to be thought leaders and innovators.
This spotlight highlights individual stories to offer lessons for how different people reached their current positions. It will also show the many directions professionals entered the industry to evidence how success can be achieved along multiple paths.
Professionals from the digital, aviation, hospitality, and tourism sectors of travel will appear in this spotlight. Here are the first three storie
