Space Travel and Tourism

Unit 4: Lesson 1 Economic Patterns: The Success of Tourism Learning Goals: -expand your understanding of the vocabulary of Travel and Tourism -identify recent trends in travel and tourism -identify selected factors that influence travellers’ destination choices -demonstrate understand of who tourists are, where they come from and the impact they have on tourism -demonstrate an understanding that the travel and tourism industry consists of many interconnected components Success Criteria: -successfully answer the lesson questions -successfully complete the lesson’s assignment -contribute to the Forum topic in a meaningful way -successfully complete the unit test -use the Travel and Tourism terminology appropriately throughout the course

LESSON TASKS: • Read the text pages which follow- the entire chapter.

• Answer the following questions in your notes: TERMINOLOGY: Define the following terms so that you can explain them (write the meanings in your own words):

domestic tourism hedonism independent travelers planned travelers reluctant travelers satellite accounting system

(pages 230-234) 1. Looking at Figure 9.6 on page 233, consider all the components of the tourist industry. In your opinion, which of these components has the greatest employment in your local area? 2. Why is it challenging to figure out the best ways to measure the total economic value of the tourist industry?

(pages 235-243) 3. Write a definition for “tourist” using the information you have learned so far. 4. Why is it important to distinguish between visitor and migrants? Between same-day visitors and tourists? 5. Explain why people in places such as Africa and the Middle East spend only small amounts of money on travel and tourism.

(pages 244-249) 6. How might the following groups of people feel about paying for improving, expanding, and modernizing the infrastructure of St. martin/St. Maarten? a) residents through increased income taxes b) foreign owners of shops and series through increased business taxes c) tourists through increased prices and user fees ASSIGNMENT TO SUBMIT for this lesson: In your opinion, what type of tourist do you think would be attracted to space tourism? Why would someone pay so much for this type of travel adventure? Would you? Explain. Write at least 250 words in proper sentence format. Evaluation: Knowledge: use travel and tourism vocabulary to describe your ideas - 3 marks Communication: grammatically correct, proper sentences - 3 marks Thinking: creative ideas, interesting thoughts -3 marks Application: use effective examples to explain your ideas – 3 marks Total: 12 marks

FORUM TOPIC Think about one tourist facility familiar to you. Describe the type of tourist that it seems to target and identify the category that it falls into. If the facility is large, such as a theme park, describe the ways that it tries to meet the needs of different types of tourists.