Diploma in Applied Travel and Tourism

Course Name: Exploring Tourism

Course Code: TT520001

Lesson Plan

Aim: Product knowledge - Early Attractions

Lecture Delivery Plan:

Moa-gami (builds team work - help other who are having difficulty)

Do in pairs - with one person giving the instructions and the other making it - then swop

As part of "History of Tourism in NZ" looking at early attractions:

Timeine for section one needs to be from 1845 to 1999

How many students know about these attractions?

The Spa's

Milford Sound

Mt Cook - Hermitage

Queenstown

Waitomo glowworm caves

Whanganui river

Fuller's cream run

The great southern lakes - Te Anau and Milford

Look at history of Spas

‘Taking the waters’ can be traced back to the Romans who used the spa’s mineral waters for health benefits. By the 1700s it had become fashionable for the aristocracy to travel to the European resorts like Vichy (France) and Baden Baden Germany for pleasure as well as health motivations.