Also called: Hotel Sales Manager
Sells blocks of hotel rooms and meeting space to conferences, weddings, and sports teams.
A group sales manager tours a meeting planner through ballrooms, writes a contract for 300 room nights, and keeps in touch with repeat clients.
Estimate; bonuses are common.
Approximate: anchored on Bureau of Labor Statistics data for a broader job group.
Bachelor's degree (4-year), about 4 years after high school. Bachelor's in hospitality, business, or marketing.
Ways in: 4-year college. Training cost: $15k – $60k.
Majors to look at: Hospitality Management, Marketing.
Growing about average. Steady with business travel.
Medium risk for 10 years. AI answers meeting requests and builds proposals fast, so fewer sellers; relationships with planners stay human.
Classes: Marketing, Business, Speech.
Official data: O*NET occupation 41-3091.
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