Where Can We Find Information On Leisure and Tourism?
Mrs Edge and Mr Bevan are leisure and tourism Teachers. Mrs Edge covers leisure and Mr Bevan covers tourism. They both have a great deal of knowledge on the subject as They, themselves have studied leisure and tourism at school, college and maybe even university. They also have achieved qualifications and passed exams in leisure and tourism, in order for them to teach what they have learnt, to others.
They have both taught the subject and related ones (such as geography) for a few years, and so they would be able to help us with finding out information on certain topics within the leisure and tourism course that we take during years 10 and 11.
Business Teachers can also help us to find out information on leisure and tourism. They can help us in different ways to Teachers of one particular subject, because Business Studies covers all the work industries, and as leisure and tourism is a popular and rising industry in the real world, they would be able to provide us with lots of different types of information. This information they provide can be a varied range of ideas.
Mrs Hancock and Miss kingsmill, the Business Teachers, have teached pupis about all types of Businesses, including leisure and tourism. On each type of Business industry, they can explain how well they are ran, what is involved to make yourself and the Business successful, and other information about what we need to know about the Business industry that we are studying.
If we ask Teachers for information on leisure and tourism, they can dedicate their knowledge and time to us.
Telephone, post and email are all types of communicational ways we can find out about leisure and tourism in school (we can also gain access to information using these communications, out of school too, such as at home, etc)
With telephone communication we can phone up leisure and tourism related organisations, such as travel agencies, tourist information centres, holiday centres, etc.
Most of the companies we phone up would be of tourism, because it is easier to get in contact with companies providing for tourism (especially holiday brochures)
Leisure companies don't give out as much relevant and detailed information as tourism organisations do, such as brochures, how to contact the company via telephone, fax, post and email.
You can get sent information on leisure and tourism through the post or via email.
With postal communication, you don't necessarily need to send a letter to ask if you can receive information on leisure or tourism, as they these types of companies automatically mail everyone with information or give you other ways of contact in which to receive it.
We can use postal access in school, by getting the information delivered by proclaiming for it or by getting the information delivered directly to a certain department, from an order.
We can also send letters to companies from school in a postal entry in order to receive the information personally.
A modern communicational way of getting information on leisure and tourism is by sending email.
In school, we can send emails to leisure and tourism companies, subscribing for information to be delivered to your email address. Like post, you can receive the information automatically to ...
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We can use postal access in school, by getting the information delivered by proclaiming for it or by getting the information delivered directly to a certain department, from an order.
We can also send letters to companies from school in a postal entry in order to receive the information personally.
A modern communicational way of getting information on leisure and tourism is by sending email.
In school, we can send emails to leisure and tourism companies, subscribing for information to be delivered to your email address. Like post, you can receive the information automatically to your email inbox , but is only basic, but provides you with places/contacts that you can get more info.
If you want to receive newsletters from the companies, containing the detailed information, you have to send an email to a company, subscribing for it, like postal entries of subscription.
Textbooks offer us a very detailed and educational way of finding information on leisure and tourism.
We can get access to a variety of textbooks based on leisure and tourism in school, and a main place we can find these textbooks is in the school library.
One of the main textbooks which focus directly to leisure and tourism, is the leisure and tourism textbook we use in the lesson for GCSE.
This textbook contains very detailed information which we need to know about leisure and tourism and it's industry.
The textbook is divided into 3 sections: investigating leisure and tourism is the first section.
This first section will involve us to find out about leisure and tourism. The textbook provides the information for us and allows us to investigate it. It is based on info the book gives us for this unit of work.
The second section focuses on marketing. This is where we study the leisure and tourism industry in Business form. It involves studying the information on promotion of companies, and other types of form of marketing that take place in an organisation. This textbook provides the information you study to produce a marketing portfolio as unit 2 of the work.
The third and final section of the textbook is costumer service. This is also unit 3 of the GCSE, and it involves costumers and the types of service they require in different leisure and tourism organisations. The textbook we use gives us information of what costumer service is, different types of costumer, external and internal costumers, benefits of costumer service, communicating with them, personal presentation, handling complaints and keeping costumer records.
All the units of work, will require us to use information from this main leisure and tourism textbook. The information on each unit is split into several sections and each section has detailed information given.
There are other textbooks we can gather information out of to do with leisure and tourism. We can find these textbooks in the Geography department (for tourism info mainly), the Business studies department, and from the school library.
Geography textbooks would help us to find information about tourism more than leisure, as tourism is a topic that you study in geography.
Business studies would offer us textbooks to find information on the business aspect of leisure and tourism.
Computers are a modern and easy way to access information on leisure and tourism.
There are many ways on a computer to access information, such as computer programs and the Internet.
A detailed and useful computer program we have accessibility to, is Encarta . Encarta is a encyclopedia which does automatic research for a topic that you are looking for, and gives you extracts of information or resources based on the topic of search.
The types of search on Encarta can vary depending on the type of format you want the information and the topic you are searching for.
Encarta is a worldwide search but in many forms of which is the limited allowance on the program (no websites given or any demos.)
With using the internet to find information, the search aren't as limited as computer programs as the internet does not take up disk space, etc. Internet searches cannot stop.
On the internet, there are many ways you can access the information.
You can search for info on leisure and tourism by using a variety of search engines (such as yahoo, google, ask jeeves, etc)
With using search engines,you can type in the topic of search, and you will automatically receive search results found on that topic, and you can access any of the search results given by clicking on them.Usually it is a website you are given to access the information you are looking for (but it could be other internet programs/contacts to a certain company that is based on the search topic.)
If you know any websites that would probably include the information on leisure and tourism, you can automatically log onto the web address, but if you aren't sure, or want to find places of advanced search, or more information you might not have, you can simply ask where to find on ask jeeves or type into a search engine, the word/phrase linked to the topic.
The library is a place where we can get lots of information on leisure and tourism from.
There is a range of resources we can use to access information from, from books, to computers, etc.
For information given to us in a different aspect, we can ask the librarian. This type of information is what we get told personally, it is from their knowledge, which means they have focused on the information and understood it, and they have interpreted the information to teach us and pass on as much as they can from their knowledge to make sure that we can be helped by them in some way.
Not only can we ask the librarian to tell us what they know, but we can ask them how to get hold of information in different ways within the library. They might help us to do our other independent research by handing us guides on where the best places to find the information are. They can also help us to look for a certain topic or piece of info in different sections of books, either by guiding us where the information can be found within the section or giving us a reference index, in which we can understand where the sections are and where the info can be found.
There are many books in the library, each of different types, within different sections.
There are geography-based books which include information on leisure and tourism.
There are some books which can be borrowed, so if we have homework which is to find info from books on leisure and tourism, we can just sign the books out into our own library accounts to borrow the book for a limited amount of time.
When we find books with information in , on the topic we need and we cannot take the book out, we can either note down the key information, or photocopy it.
We can collect as much information as we like, from any books based on leisure and tourism.
There are also computers in the library which have internet access too, so we can gain access to the computers for info from here.
The computer programs in the library may vary.We can also ask for a certain computer program the library may have, to be transferred/installed onto the computer we are working at, to gain more program access.
We can find out information on leisure and tourism from other pupils.
As part of a leisure and tourism class, we can all help each other in every way possible to make sure everyone achieves their best.
To find out information on leisure and tourism we can just simply ask others what they already know to start with, this is accessing information from someone's knowledge of the topic. Another way we can use each other's help to find out info is to ask them where- else we can get information from on leisure and tourism. Although, by doing this we aren't exactly using each other for information on leisure and tourism.
It's not only year 10 pupils in our own leisure and tourism class that we can ask for information, we can also ask the year 11 pupils who are currently doing GCSE leisure and tourism. The year 11's would help us a lot as they have been studying the course longer than we have, so they have more knowledge about the subject than we currently do, so they would be able to fill our minds with information they know on leisure and tourism.
We can also ask them for names and types of resources they used to find the most useful and detailed information on leisure and tourism, so that in future when independent research is needed to be done, we can access these areas where they found their info, by ourselves.
In situations where the work has to be done as a group or pair, we need to be able to share other Ideas with pupils, so it is important that we get used to doing that so that we are all here for each other in any need of help or assistance.
There are other departments that we can go to in order to access information on leisure and tourism.
There isn't a specified leisure and tourism department, as there is no block for this type of course. Because of this, the leisure and tourism area is based in the Geography department, due to leisure and tourism being a main topic that you study in Geography.
We can access very detailed information on leisure and tourism from the Geography department in many ways as leisure and tourism is studied in Geography lessons. We can record any information found from Geography resources such as from books, posters, and even display work done by other pupils.
We can use the help of the department teachers as I stated, to help us with finding out information.
The Geography department would give us most of the information that we need throughout the year as leisure and tourism is related a lot with Geography.
The Business studies department would be able to give us the majority of information on the actual leisure and tourism business itself.
So with the both departments, we get given info from two different aspects of the subject studied.
We can also get given computer programs from a particular department which are installed on the department's computers or saved on a floppy disk or compact disc for that department's use only.
We can access the information more productively and close-focused with one aspect in one of the two departments mentioned.
We can find information on leisure and tourism in a number of ways from each resource and I will now know for myself after producing this directory, that I can point out precisely where information can be found.
By Sarah Darvelle
