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Recent Developments in Travel and Tourism - Lesson Plan

This resource is designed specifically for Unit 1 of the Edexcel BTEC National qualification, 'The Travel and Tourism Industry', although it will be of relevance to centres following other awarding bodies' programmes.

Aim:

To consider the main developments that have taken place in the travel and tourism industry in recent years. These will focus mainly on road, air, rail and sea travel. Also, to investigate how the Internet has grown into a natural place for travel and tourism products to be sold.

Learning Objectives:

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

  • Understand some of the main recent developments in the travel and tourism industry
  • Know how to access key information from the Internet
  • Carry out some in-depth research into a specific area of the industry
  • Generate ideas about likely future developments
  • Share findings with the whole group

Resources:

Lesson Structure:

  1. Outline the key learning outcomes of this session.
  2. Go through the PowerPoint Presentation.
  3. Give out the Activity sheet.
  4. Organise research groups for the Activity. Note that there are five specific themes to be investigated. Group composition will depend on size and space constraints.
  5. Support and guide students through their investigations of the key Web resources identified in the Presentation and Activity.
  6. Set up whole group discussion of findings that emerge from the research activity.
  7. Set deadline for student groups to hand out their written results to the whole group, so that all individuals have a copy of each research group's work.
  8. Review the learning objectives of the session.

Key Skills:

The following list summarises relevant key skills for this lesson. The list is not exhaustive, in that students will often need to tackle additional activities in order to generate evidence that is sufficient to meet the specification:

Communication Level 3 - C3.2 Read and synthesise information from two extended documents about a complex subject. One of these documents should include at least one image.

Students working on tasks 2 to 5 will be required to read information from external sources (URLs given in either the Presentation, Activity, or both). These documents contain images and are about complex subjects. These tasks will generate evidence of having read and synthesised information from one document.

Communication Level 3 - C3.3 Write two different types of documents about complex subjects. One piece of writing should be an extended document and include at least one image.

The task in point 7 above, provides the opportunity to write a 'briefing' document for circulation amongst the whole group. It is about a complex subject, but will not be an extended document. You may choose to guide the students to incorporate an image into their written work.

Information Technology Level 3 - IT3.2 Explore, develop and exchange information and derive new information to meet two different purposes.

In tackling the Activity, students will explore information from given sources. They will develop written accounts of their own findings from these sources and will exchange information with others in the class. This would generate evidence to meet one of the required two purposes.