INQUIRY

INQUIRY!

DUE TOMORROW (Friday) - BLOCK 2

Check the whiteboard/Google Classroom to make sure you have completed all requirements. 

Download your publication to you Google Drive. Get the SHAREABLE LINK and use the hand in form to submit your hard work!

World Travel Inquiry - Lesson 6

4 Inquiry lessons left!

You need to work towards completing your itinerary.

Remember:

You need to visit two cities (minimum)

You need to participate in a minimum of 5 tourist attractions, including:

• A free attraction
• An organised tour
• An adventurous activity
• Visit a historical site

You need to add all costs to your budget

Helpful hints:

- search "your city visitor information"

- search "your city lonely planet" (lonely planet is a travel guide book and website)

World Travel Inquiry - Lesson 5

Today you need to carry on with your day to day itinerary.

Try searching your city and visitor information to find tours, activities, sites to see etc (Eg "Hong Kong visitor information").

Your day to day itinerary should include:

• Your activities including
• Cost (include this in your budget)
• Time needed
• Location
• Remember to include; something that is free, an organised tour, an adventure activity and visit a historical sited)
• Transportation between locations

• Means of transport (hire a car/bus/train/walk?)
• Distances
• Time

• Accommodation including
• Cost (remember to include this in your budget)
• Type (eg motel, backpackers etc)
• Contact details (address, phone number, email)

Make sure you keep a record of the amount of money you will need to spend to cover expenses. 

This should be recorded in your budget

World Travel Inquiry - Lesson 4

By now you should have completed the following:
1 - Continent page
2 - Country page
3 - Day 1 and 2 itinerary

Today you need to make a start on your budget. I have shared a document on google classroom that you can use.
Add more lines as you need to.

You also need to work towards completing your 1st city page

Lastly continue to work on your day to day itinerary

3 weeks remaining = 6 more inquiry lessons

World Travel Inquiry - Lesson 3

By now you should have the following completed.
  1. Page on your continent
  2. Page on your first country
  3. Information regarding flights to your first country/city

Make sure you are up to speed and not falling behind

Put your phone away... move away from people who distract you... stay off Facebook/YouTube/Games... Do what YOU need to do to complete the work! Make good choices

Today we are going to start our itinerary.
An itinerary is a detailed plan of each day. Things to remember to include...

  a) Your flight information for arriving in your first city (Flight from NZ)

  b) What are you going to do for the remainder of your arrival day? (Go site seeing? Go to a hotel and sleep?)

  c) What you will do for your first full day in that city?
- Tourist attractions / Site seeing
- Accommodation for that night (Address, cost, type of accomm etc)
- Transport options (Hire a car? Catch a bus/train? Walk?)

  d) Make sure you keep a record of the amount of money you will need to spend to cover expenses 


Here is ONE example of a BASIC itinerary, there are other examples on Google Classroom and you can search the internet as well. The more detail you include the better... Notice how this does not include costs, transport, accommodation etc.

World Travel Inquiry - Lesson two

Note: If you were not here on Thursday you need to take responsibility of your learning and catch up. 

You could; Read the last inquiry blog post, ask the teacher, ask a friend...

Lesson two

By now you should have;

- Chosen a continent

- Created the first page of your travel publication

Today you need to;

(1) Research and choose flights to your first country

• Choose a flight from Auckland Airport (Akl)
• Consider how you will get back to NZ... do you want to buy a one way ticket or return ticket? Do you want to fly back from the same city or somewhere else?

      Remember to include the following;

• Dates of travel
• Cost (make sure the website is telling the price in NZD (New Zealand Dollars)
• Airline

Create a new google doc titled "World Travel Inquiry - notes". Keep your flight information on this document to use later in your itinerary and budget.

Useful sites:

Air New Zealand

Kayak.com - Website that looks at multiple airlines and prices

Expedia - Website that looks at multiple airlines and prices

(2) Choose the first country you want to visit

You need to create another page (or two) for your travel publication on this country

Information about your country could include;

• Map
• History
• Food
• Language
• Currency
• Population
• Capital city
• Why you want to visit this country

World travel inquiry

Congratulations you have just landed yourself a job as a travel agent!

Since you are new to the job your boss has given you two weeks and $20,000 NZD to go and explore a new continent so you can give quality advice to future clients.

You need to plan your trip in detail and create a travel publication of your trip plan and information.

Open up Google Classroom to access further information to complete this inquiry.

Today you need to;
1. Choose which continent you will travel to. Your choices are:
                * Africa
                * Asia
                * Europe
                * North America
                * South America
2. Find a map of the continent
3. Identify which countries are part of this continent
4. Learn about this continent - find useful information and facts that future clients would be interested in
5. Begin your first pages of your travel publication with the information you have gathered