With your passion, life experience and appetite for learning and adventure, you have everything you need to deliver exceptional experiences to locals and visitors alike.
Choose from a range of casual, part-time and seasonal roles that best suit your skills, interests and lifestyle. Meet new people, share your stories and live and work in wondrous places across Western Australia.
Whether it’s driving a 4WD, skippering a boat, checking guests into a holiday park, creating the evening aperitivo or leading tours in spectacular landscapes, WA’s tourism and hospitality community has an adventure for everyone.
Why choose tourism and hospitality?
ADVENTURE
Western Australia is vast and so is a job in tourism and hospitality. There’s a world outside your door to explore, from the coast to the outback, the city to the regions. Where will your adventurous spirit take you?
FLEXIBILITY
There’s a wide variety of jobs available to suit your skills, passions, background, education and circumstances, with many offering on-the-job learning. Choose the hours to suit your life stage and the work-life balance you’re after.
SUSTAINABILITY
Our industry relies on Western Australia’s natural resources and wonders. It’s part of all our jobs to be consciously minded and aware of our impact on our landscapes, wildlife and communities. Help implement sustainable practices every day.
POSSIBILITY
No specific experience? No worries! Work with passionate people who love our industry and will help you learn new skills or transfer your experience into your new role. You’ll develop in so many ways, which can take you all over WA.
OPPORTUNITY
WA’s economy is strong. Last year our industry contributed $16.8 billion and generated more than 89,000 jobs (wow). Play a vital role in contributing to the growth of the State.
PERKS
Besides the financial benefits, a job in tourism and hospitality has the potential to offer so much more! You may also receive delicious staff meals, great discounts, travel opportunities, flexible hours, or working in the outdoors amongst nature and wildlife in iconic locations.
CONNECTION
You’ll meet so many different people, including like-minded co-workers and happy guests in high spirits on holiday. Make lifelong connections along the way – both on and off the job – that can lead you to your next adventure.
Incentives
There’s no time like the present to take up a role in Western Australia’s tourism and hospitality industry. Take advantage of the below incentives, which offer job seekers greater flexibility to work and earn without the fear of losing income support payments:
Workforce Australia provides support and resources for mature age workers through the Mature Age Hub. For more information click here.
“It can be surprising and tremendously rewarding. It gets you involved, active and entertained and all of that is life-extending, life-giving really. I was down at Fremantle getting a group off a cruise ship when a woman who was ushering people on a bus said ‘Vaughan, I’ve got to tell you, I heard you speak at the town hall (about working in tourism) and as a result I’m in this business now’. How good is that.”
– Vaughan, Tour guide, Two Feet and a Heartbeat, and City of Perth
“You get to meet such a great mix of people, and find out where they come from, what they do, what they enjoy, and you can explore that with them – so it’s really great fun and very rewarding.”
– Allan, Cruise Volunteer, Fremantle Visitor Centre
Start Your Next Adventure – Job Seeker Workbook
Perhaps you have recently retired and are looking for something worthwhile to fill your time? Maybe you are contemplating retirement and wondering what steps to take next? Or you could be looking for a job but have been struggling to find the right fit. This workbook has been designed to help you kickstart your next adventure.
Watch Stories
Hear from people currently working across Western Australia in tourism and hospitality.
Career Spotlights
Read the inspirational stories of more young people thriving in the industry and check out the ‘Stepping Stones’ that got them there.
Vaughan Sadler
Sue O'Connor
Dr Cam O'Beirne
Dale Tilbrook
Job Profiles
Discover which of our 7 Job Profiles you are! Learn what career might best suit your strengths, passions and preferences, plus the kinds of jobs available to you.
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So, you’re ready for a career in tourism and hospitality? Of course you are! Start your job search today and explore just some of the jobs available right now.
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