1. The 8 Deadly Career Mistakes You Didn’t Know You Were Making and How to Stop: There are eight career mistakes you should avoid at all costs. Mistakes so harmful I like to call them the “Travel, Tourism and Hospitality Career Destroyers.”

Unfortunately, these eight mistakes aren’t common knowledge but rather commonly made. This article shows you how to identify and stop doing them, and how to stop sabotaging your own job search efforts and start focusing on how to really fast-track your travel, tourism and hospitality career.

2. How to Get a Travel, Tourism and Hospitality Job Without Experience: Many would-be travel, tourism and hospitality professionals don’t have the time, money, or even the desire to go back to school and get an advanced certificate or degree specifically in travel, tourism and hospitality, just in order to enter the industry and have a successful career at any level.

So how do you get a travel, tourism and hospitality job without experience or any specialized education? Learn the tips that will help you navigate your career into the travel, tourism and hospitality industry.

3. Best Places to Connect with Travel, Tourism and Hospitality Professionals: Your job to find your dream job in travel, tourism and hospitality is to expose yourself to the industry in a valuable way so that potential mentors, sponsors, thought leaders and professionals at all levels in the industry, can connect with you and serve as referrals or influencers on your behalf.

In this second part of the three-part series of the ultimate guide on how to break into the travel, tourism and hospitality industry, I cover the 4 places that you need to be that offer the best opportunities to meet successful people in the industry.

4. 5 Reasons Why You Should Work in Travel, Tourism and Hospitality: Twelve years ago I didn’t see travel and tourism as a career, as I had no experience or knowledge of it. However, I’ve come to realize that it’s a dynamic industry where individuals of all backgrounds can find their niche and work anywhere in the world.

In this article, I talk about the five main reasons why I was interested in the travel, tourism and hospitality industry all those years ago that continue to be good reasons why you should work in travel, tourism and hospitality today.

5. 14 Tourism Trends That Will Change The Way You Think About Your Career: If you want to take your job search to the next level, and you’re hoping to finally land the job you’ve always wanted, then you should be aware of and be open to new career possibilities within the travel, tourism and hospitality industry that exist other than those associated with airlines, hotels and travel agencies.

This article reviews the 14 tourism trends you should pay attention to that provide promising career opportunities in travel, tourism and hospitality.

Since last March, when I launched Tourism Exposed, I’ve always said that this is the only industry that has allowed me the chance to travel and see the world and meet so many fascinating people, all the while growing my professional career quicker than I ever thought would be possible.

I believe smart people who want to become successful travel, tourism and hospitality professionals must learn about the unknown career opportunities that are available and how to use hidden job search strategies to get out of their rut, find their dream jobs and take control of their future.

That’s why I spend so much time talking about the exact strategies I used to break into the industry – strategies that not only include your professional development but also your personal development as well. For example, your mindset about the industry overall and how to be resilient and get over self-sabotaging fears that stop you from having your dream job.

And we’ll explore more strategies in 2015, one step at a time, together.

For now, enjoy tonight and have a great New Year. It’s a privilege to write for you.

P.S. To kick off 2015, I’ll be writing to you each week in January. Hints about what’s coming:

• The benefit of a strong personal brand to hiring managers
• The importance of having a career emergency plan
• New ways to work in travel, tourism and hospitality