The Joseph Rowntree School

KS4 - BTEC Travel & Tourism

Curriculum Knowledge 

Year 10

Students begin with Component 1: Travel and Tourism Organisations and Destinations. This involves investigating and writing a report on a selected Travel and Tourism organisation followed by an investigation into a chosen tourist destination where they will explore different types of tourism and the feature that make a destination appealing to tourists. Once this has been completed then students will begin Component 2: Influences on Global Travel and Tourism. This covers a wide range of topics and look at how tourism can be managed sustainably.

Year 11

Students will continue with the work on Component 2 in readiness for the exam in the January of Year 11 whilst also starting and completing Component 3: Customer Needs in Travel and Tourism. This is a written investigation into how a travel and tourism organisation uses market research to help shape its provision as well as undertaking market research in order to plan a holiday to a tourist destination for a particular type of tourist.

 

Skill Development

 

Subject Specific Skills:

  • Literacy – report writing and presentation skills.
  • Literacy – selecting appropriate information from research.
  • Numeracy – selecting and interpreting market research data.
  • Application and understanding of specific key terms to the given context.

 

Wider Academic Skills / Attributes:

  • Evaluation – weighing up pros and cons and making reasoned judgements.
  • Analysis – being able to form logical chains of analysis/ reasoning.
  • Data interpretation from given evidence.
  • Numeracy skills.

 

Personal Development - SMSC & Cultural Capital (Opportunities / Experiences)

 

  • Investigating how tourism needs to be sustainable and assessing the impact of tourism on the local and wider environments.
  • Engaging with local travel entrepreneurs – giving students a wider look at different types of business entrepreneurs/ opportunities.
  • Through Travel and Tourism, students to visit and engage with places of interest in and around the area (e.g. Yorvik) 
  • Link the Travel and Tourism course to the local industry in York.
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