Exploring Tourism/Resources/Lesson Plans/Lesson Plan 1

=Diploma in Applied Travel and Tourism=

Course Name: Exploring Tourism

Course Code: TT520001

Lesson Plan
Aim: To understand the key terms and concepts of the tourism and hospitality industries the nature of these industries

Lecture Delivery Plan:
Icebreaker - Instructions (need some sheets of blank paper) Debrief: What was missing from the communication Really important for learning that all three are successful
 * failure of the provider of information
 * failure of the process
 * failure of the listeners

1. Introduce course - go through wiki link and course blog (get students to come up and put their email address in). This blog will have a question/task set each week which you are to complete individually on the blog.

Introductory activity: Part One: Ask students how many different types of travellers there are? Provide them with handout/then show them travellers quiz.(slide one) Ray is travelling....

Part Two: ask students to reflect on a holiday they have taken recently and make a few notes regarding it. Library session and tour
 * what kind of traveller were they?
 * show slide two - and ask them to answer in relation to their holiday
 * can they now think about and categorise some of the direct and indirect services on their holiday - distribute "tourism systems handout" - ask them to draw a circle and fill provide an example of each category from their holiday.

2. Definitions of Tourism


 * Tourism - "The activity of persons travelling to and staying in places outside their usual environment for not more than one consecutive year for leisure, business or any other purpose


 * Traveller - any person who moves from point A to point B (different categories)


 * Tourist - visitor who travels to a country other than that in which he/she has her/his usual residence for at least one night but not more than one year and whose main purpose of viist is other than the exercise of an activity remunerated from within the country visited.


 * Residence /domestic, international - domestic travelling beyond their normal place of residence to other regions within their country. International - travelling from their normal place (NZ) of residence overseas (outbound). Travelling from overseas to New Zealand (inbound)


 * Time - The period of time visitors stay at a destination - less than 24hrs an excursionist "day tripper" more than a tourist


 * Hospitality


 * Accommodation

3. Destination/s
 * Slideshare
 * Infrastructure and Services
 * Casestudy

4. Structure of Tourism
 * International
 * Domestic
 * Public
 * Private
 * National Tourism Organisation - Tourism New Zealand

5. Hospitality Sector
 * Commercial/noncommercial
 * structure

Activities to complete
1. Definitions

2. Start google document for glossary

Resources

 * Principles of Tourism (Alan Collier) Figure 1.1, pg 7