Also called: Travel Market Analyst
Studies travel data to learn who visits, how much they spend, and how to attract more visitors.
You analyze cellphone location data, hotel stats, and surveys to measure the economic impact of a music festival. Your reports guide city leaders and tourism boards. It is a numbers job inside the travel world.
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 economics, statistics, or tourism; master's helpful.
Ways in: 4-year college, Graduate school. Training cost: $15k – $60k.
Majors to look at: Economics, Statistics, Tourism Management.
Growing faster than average (about 7% over 10 years). Grouped with market research analysts.
Medium risk in 5 years, high in 10. AI pulls and analyzes visitor data and writes reports, so fewer junior analysts are needed.
Classes: AP Statistics, Economics, Geography.
Official data: O*NET occupation 13-1161.
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