A lesson plan that introduces Retail Travel Operations for the BTEC National Travel and Tourism.

Retail Travel Operations - Lesson Plan

This resource is designed specifically for Unit 7 of the Edexcel BTEC National qualification 'Retail Travel Operations', although it will be of relevance to centres following other awarding bodies' programmes.

Aim

To investigate and analyse the UK's retail travel environment. The lesson will focus on the structure of the industry, ongoing trends and the impact of these trends on the retail travel sector.

Learning objectives

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

• Understand the structure of the retail travel industry
• Know the meaning of integration in the sector
• Analyse the trends at work in the industry
• Apply their learning to data drawn from real world cases
• Investigate levels of integration within the sector
• Evaluate likely trends in the industry
• Investigate a wide range of sources of information

Resources

• PowerPoint presentation - The Retail Travel Environment
• Activity - Retail Travel Operations
• 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. Remind students that this work builds on material studied in Unit 1. If possible, recap on the Biz/ed Activity from Unit 1.
5. Review the learning objectives of the session