Business Travel Operations - Lesson Plan

This resource is designed specifically for Unit 8 of the Edexcel BTEC National qualification 'Business Travel Operations', although it will be of relevance to centres following other awarding bodies' programmes.

Aim

To investigate and analyse the UK's business travel environment. The lesson will focus on the characteristics of business travel, the main components of the sector, ongoing trends and the impact of these trends on the sector.

Learning Objectives

By the end of the lesson, students should be able to:

• Understand the structure of the business travel industry
• Know the main characteristics of the sector
• Analyse the trends at work in the industry
• Apply their learning to questions based on articles about the sector
• Study from further sources of information

Resources

• PowerPoint presentation - The Business Travel Environment
• Activity - The Business Travel Environment
• Projector/PC/Internet access

Lesson structure

1. Outline the key learning objectives of the session
2. Go through the presentation
3. Hand out the activity sheet
4. Facilitate discussions about the benefits and costs of business travel.
5. Highlight the additional sources of information in the Activity.
6. Oversee the students' production of posters in line with the task requirements.
7. Review the learning objectives of the session