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Travel and Tourism Personal Statement Examples
What is a travel and tourism personal statement?
Your travel and tourism personal statement should tell the universities you are applying to all about your strengths, abilities, achievements and career plans.
It should give admissions tutors a good picture of who you are and why you would be a valuable asset to their department.
How do I write a travel and tourism personal statement?
We always recommend starting your travel and tourism personal statement by brainstorming ideas. Your notes should include the following:
- achievements
- coursework you have enjoyed
- research projects you have completed
- academic results
- part-time or Saturday jobs
- volunteering
- wider reading
- extracurricular activities
as well as anything else you can think of that is relevant to your travel and tourism course.
Take a look through our travel and tourism personal statement examples above to give yourself an idea of what a successful statement looks like.
Once you have put together an initial draft, it's a good idea to ask for feedback from family, friends and tutors. They will be able to look at your statement objectively and suggest ways it could be improved.
Incorporate their comments, and ask for further feedback. Don't worry if you have to do this three or four times - it's important you get your statement as perfect as possible before sending it off on your UCAS form.
What shoud I include in my travel and tourism personal statement?
- Look at the content of the course and make sure your statement addresses the specific aspects that you enjoy most.
- Demonstrate important skillls that are required for a travel and tourism degree, e.g. analysis, research and communication. Talk about how you have developed these, either at school/college, at your job or during hobbies or other activities.
- Most applicants spend the opening of their statement talking about why they want to study travel and tourism at degree level. Think carefully about whether there was one particular incident that sparked your interest in this subject, e.g. an exotic holiday abroad as a child, visiting an iconic landmark or flying on an aeroplane for the first time.
- Don’t include any over-used phrases or quotes in your statement that university admissions tutors will have seen and heard before.
- Now is also not the time for jokes or humour - it often doesn't work well and admissions tutors might not be impressed!
- Make sure you've covered everything from hobbies and extracurricular activities to motivations and personal achievements (as long as it's all relevant).
- If you get stuck, read our personal statement writing guide and check out our personal statement editing services.
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Sample statement.
I have always been a keen traveller and from an early age I knew that I wanted a career that enabled me to be involved in the travel industry. At secondary school I enjoyed learning French and German and taught myself Spanish after a particularly exciting holiday to Barcelona.
The majority of my travels have been in Europe although I am planning a six week tour of America next summer. I also hope to explore Asia in the future, possibly by teaching English as a foreign language.
To help me achieve my career goals I studied Travel and Tourism at college by taking the AVCE Travel and Tourism course. This gave me the chance to put my love of travel into an industry context and develop my knowledge of the business aspects of travel and tourism.
I have always been business minded and my course taught me the valuable leadership and organisational skills I will need to succeed in this highly competitive industry.
As well as completing written work for the course I also had to take part in practical exercises, such as organising a competition with school children based around a local tourist attractive.
Another aspect of the course was taking part in a two week work placement and for this I was lucky enough to secure a place at the Tower of London. During this time I acted as a tour guide, showed the Events Department, and got to work with the Marketing Department on a future exhibition.
When I am not fulfilling my academic responsibilities I like to keep fit, particularly by running. I am a Committee Member for my local running club and regularly organise both competitive and fun running events.
I am also a keen cook and enjoy trying recipes from other parts of the world.
I hope that my strong organisational and team work skills will make me a valuable and useful member of my course. After graduation I hope to spend some more time abroad and then take up a role within the travel and tourism industry.
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