Topic outline
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Travel and Tourism
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In this Travel and Tourism taster course you will complete the following.
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Introduction
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Welcome to this short introduction to Travel and Tourism. This will help to prepare you for when you start your course with us at Gower College Swansea, as well as giving you an opportunity to brush up on some of your skills!
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Video
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Have a look at this YouTube video.
Summary
Learn more about the differences between travel and tourism and what the difference is between a traveller and a tourist.
- Travel and tourism is the world’s largest economic sector
- It supports 292 million jobs around the world
- It generates 10.2 % of global GDP
- Travel is the movement of people between two graphical locations for numerous reason such a work, visiting friends and family or visiting an attraction.
- Tourism is travel limited to holiday activities only; people travel to and stay in location outside their usual environment for less than one year.
- You can distinguish between a travellers and a tourist by how immersed the person becomes in their new location. A traveller will tend to want to experience their new location as the people who live there do and a tourist will tend to experience their new location by seeing the sights, travelling the organised groups while sticking to things familiar
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Top 10 Destination to visit
The Top Travel Destinations of 2020! A list of where you NEED to travel in 2019! I share with you the best World travel destinations of 2019 with travel guides in each location.
Summary
Learn more about the differences between travel and tourism and what the difference is between a traveller and a tourist.
The internet has allowed us to discover unique places to visit around the world
You Tube is a really good way to research and discover these unique and amazing destinations!
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Learning Object
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Summary
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Thank you for completing this short introduction to Travel and Tourism, we hope you enjoyed it and hope it has given you a small taste of the things you will learn with us when you join Gower College Swansea!
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Extension Videos
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Here are some videos that might interest you from GCS TV.
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