Term 1 - 2: Component 2: Customer Needs in Travel and Tourism
Learners will investigate how organisations use market research to identify travel and tourism trends and identify customer needs and preferences. They will apply their understanding by exploring how specific needs are met by organisations and how travel planning meets customer needs and preferences.
Pearson sets the assignments for the assessment of this component.
The assignment for this component consists of five tasks.
The assignment will take approximately 5 hours of monitored preparation and 6 supervised hours to complete.
Develop the individual:
Create a supportive community:
Students work collaboratively and support one another through discussion, leading to developing their own independent study.
Term 2 - 4: Component 3: Influences on Global Travel and Tourism
Learners will explore the different factors that may influence global travel and tourism, and how travel and tourism organisations and destinations respond to these factors. Learners will examine the potential impacts of tourism at global destinations and how destinations can manage the impacts of tourism and control tourism development to achieve sustainable tourism.
This external component builds on knowledge, understanding and practices acquired and developed in Components 1 and 2, and includes synoptic assessment. Learners will answer a number of short- and long-answer questions that will assess learners’ understanding of factors influencing tourism in global destinations, the impact of tourism on global destinations, sustainability and destination management.
An exam worth 60 marks will be completed under exam conditions.
Develop the individual:
Students develop a greater understanding of the impact individuals can have on others around them, this is done through the use of case studies from industry.
Create a supportive community:
Students work collaboratively and support one another through discussion, leading to developing their own independent study in preparation for the external assessment.
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Develop the individual:
Create a supportive community:
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Develop the individual:
Create a supportive community:
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Develop the individual:
Create a supportive community:
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Develop the individual:
Create a supportive community: