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Special Interest Tourism 2 - Learning Pathway

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Travel and Tourism Resource

Special Interest Tourism 1- Activity

This resource will help learners to:

• Understand the breadth of special interest tourism products
• Analyse some of the activities involved in special interest tourism
• Appreciate that there are many overlaps in any categorisation of special interest tourism
• Investigate the spectrum of 'dark tourism' activities and products
• Analyse the growth in interest in this very special area of special interest tourism
• Prepare for a further session on dark tourism in Chernobyl - site of the world's worst nuclear reactor disaster

Wanna Argument: 5 March 2007

Which Way the Wind Blows - Wind Energy Production in the UK

This resource will help learners to:

• Know the extent of domestic wind energy projects in the UK
• Analyse progress towards renewable energy targets in the UK
• Evaluate the use of North Sea oil and gas revenues over twenty-five years
• Evaluate the use of other sources of electricity generation, such as nuclear power.

Travel and Tourism resource

Tourism in the Countryside

This resource will help learners to:

• Understand the development of tourism in the countryside
• Know the main activities carried out in the countryside
• Create a timeline of milestones in countryside tourism
• Evaluate what is meant by 'the countryside' in the UK
• Outline the key membership organisations in the sector
• Understand some of these organisations' key activities
• Analyse data from one the organisation's policy documents
• Study from further sources of information

At Your Leisure resource

Batteries Included

This resource will help learners to:

• Analyse consumers' need for mobile electrical power
• Evaluate the dangers of certain battery types
• Understand the reasons behind the recall of millions of laptop batteries
• Evaluate the responses to some leisure marketing scenarios

Mind Your Business resource

The Alternative Fuels

This resource will help learners to:

• Consider the strategic, marketing and competitive issues that a business considering developing biofuels might have to take into account
• Recommend to your audience whether the business should invest in such a project
• Prepare a case for significant investment into one of the following sources of energy: solar power, wind, sea, nuclear, coal.
• Make a presentation outlining the potential costs and benefits of your chosen method, as well as highlight why it is a more appropriate investment than at least one other method mentioned

Travel and Tourism resource

Roles and Responsibilities of Travel and Tourism Organisations

• Carry out research and synthesise information from a range of sources
• Review the types of organisation in the UK travel and tourism industry
• Carry out some research into one of the main firms in the industry
• Find out what happens when travel and tourism organisations fail
• Analyse the inter-relationships that occur in travel and tourism
• Work independently on a series of written tasks