Cover Letter for Admissions to the Master Program in Hospitality and Tourism Management

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[...] I also discovered, while working in Nigeria, the whole potential of Africa regarding tourism development. This experience has shown that I do not simply want to work as a tourism operator, but also as a manager and to be part of decision processes in order to be able to create new tourism businesses and programs for some unexplored places of the world. I also had the opportunity to be a cashier in London, which helped me to understand how important it is to manage the accounts in the tourism field. [...]

[...] Therefore, I truly believe that I could fully develop the skills I started to learn through my professional experiences and my attitude thanks to the Master Program proposed by your school. Indeed, the courses provided such as the Marketing, Strategy and Human Ressources Management, as well as the study of the tourism distribution tools would helpfully deepen the knowledge I discovered in practice while being in internship. Such new competences proposed by your program would be of a great help in order to pursue my professional and personal goals, which are mostly related in the development of the family business established by my father and the reinforcement of tourism opportunities in the most unexplored regions of Africa, such as in Lagos. [...]

[...] Finally, an internship at an overseas consular mission for the Consulate of the Kingdom of Denmark in Benin was a great way to get a larger view of the tourism sector, ensuring that appropriate information and assistance was provided to those in need. Decision making process, while working in a Consulate, seems even more important since we are dealing with people that are not only seeking for basic touristic information, but also sometimes a true and dedicated assistance. My hospitality, my dedication to my studies and my jobs as well as my seriousness has been fully demonstrated in those various successful experiences. [...]

[...] As for now, I am a student in the Bachelor Program of Social Sciences at the Royal Holloway University of London. For the forthcoming years, I really would like to specialize myself in the tourism and the hospitality field, which is to me very relevant regarding my skills and experiences as well as my professional desires. My desire to specialize myself in the tourism field is firstly due to strong familial connections to this very particular universe. Indeed, as an hotel owner, my father transmitted to me the very basic skills of any profession related to tourism: efficiency, smile, proactivity and dedication to the customer. [...]