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Holiday Representatives 1 - Learning Pathway

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Investigate the range of career opportunities in the travel and tourism industry - Activity

This resource will help learners to:

• Carry out research on career opportunities in the industry
• Understand the entry requirements into and progression routes through two specific roles
• Analyse their own strengths and weaknesses and begin work on a personal development plan aimed at entry into a travel and tourism career
• Work collaboratively in small groups
• Present findings to the whole group

Preparing for employment in the travel and tourism industry - Activity

This resource will help learners to:

• Understand that good interview skills are learned, not innate
• Learn the hallmarks of effective interview
• Analyse the performance of an ill-prepared candidate
• Write scripts recording how they would perform as successful interviewees
• Role-play these scripts with other students and teachers
• Analyse and evaluate their own performance

Recruitment and selection in the travel and tourism industry - Activity

This resource will help learners to:

• Learn the stages involved in recruitment and selection
• Apply this understanding to their chosen job
• Create a flowchart of the stages involved in appointing someone into the job
• Write supporting documentation (job description and person specification) for the chosen job
• Analyse their own strengths and weaknesses and their own suitability for the chosen
• Earn higher grades for developing an action plan for getting the job they want in the travel and tourism industry

The ownership of travel and tourism organisations - Activity

This resource will help learners to:

• Explore the types of travel and tourism organisation
• Carry out research into different organisations
• Find out about the structure of some travel companies
• Investigate takeovers in the travel and tourism industry

Retail travel operations - Activity

This resource will help learners 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