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  • Introduction
  • Curriculum
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Recommended Reading

It is recommended that students buy a copy of:

Advanced Travel and Tourism by Outhart, Taylor, Barker and Marvell
ISBN: 0-00-329109-X It would also be useful to collect any holiday/travel literature from places visited in the summer either within Britain or abroad.

How can I develop my full range of skills by doing this course?

As well as covering Vocational A Level study of Travel and Tourism, this course will enable you to develop transferable key skills. The Key Skills you can develop during this course are:

• Communication
• Application of number
• Information Technology
• Problem solving
• Working with others
• Improving Learning/Performance

Holiday Work

Collect some adverts for jobs in the travel and tourism industry. These could include hotel receptionist, waitress or waiter, flight attendants or cleaner at Alton Towers!! You need to collect as many as possible. You could look in local newspapers, on the Internet or at a local jobs centre.