Travel And Tourism For Btec National Award Certificate Diploma

The perfect match with the BTEC National Travel and Tourism Award, Certificate and Diploma. Book 1 contains everything students need for the Award and some additional units for the Certificate. Book 2 contains all the other units needed to complete the Certificate and the Diploma. The Student Books are matched to the BTEC National specifications, and written in an accessible way. The clear layout and use of full colour will ensure that these books are easy to use.

Closely matched to the specifications, this student book is the only resource available for BTEC national travel and tourism. It contains everything students need for the Award and some additional units for the Certificate.

This book provides comprehensive coverage of the core and most popular optional units of the BTEC National in Travel and Tourism Award, Certificate and Diploma. Published in full colour and written to cover the new 2007 specifications, BTEC National Travel and Tourism brings your studies to life with numerous illustrations, exercises, definition boxes, review questions and summaries. Each chapter contains practical activities that put theory into practice and generate data for use in assignments as well as sample case studies. Fifteen compulsory and optional units are covered in detail providing you with the knowledge you need to succeed in your BTEC National. A free supporting CD-ROM completes the package with learning outcomes and useful web links for the less widely studied options whilst a teacher's CD-ROM with a wealth of extra resources to complement the book is also available.

This fully revised and updated second edition provides over 7,000 definitions of travel and tourism terminology used throughout the world, highlighting the many differences between US and European usage. It covers all aspects of the tourism industry, including hospitality, transport, and ancillary services. It explains the operating language of the travel industry, acronyms and abbreviations of organizations, associations and trade bodies, IT terms and brand names, and provides website addresses. Entries vary from one-line definitions to 500 word articles, and references are provided for further reading. This new edition contains over 500 new entries and the unique cross referencing system has been extended; for example accessing any entry about business travel leads to over 70 others. It is an essential reference tool for anyone involved in tourism research, and everyone in the travel industry.

Travel and tourism is a wide-ranging sector, involving both personal and business travel and large, medium and small-sized companies. This book describes ways to find work in travel and tourism, together with lists of the most important aspects of jobs int he field. It offers guidance for matching the reader's personality, skills and interests to possible future employment in the industry. It gives details of specific jobs such as marketing and promotions officer, travel agent, holiday representative, tour manager and travel consultant,and describes long-term career paths and wider opportunities. This series gives young people an inside view of how their studies relate to the working world. The text gives an overview of a range of key jobs within the industry and highlights typical training, qualities and skills demanded by employers. It also includes personal diaries from real people, with firsthand accounts of the pluses and minuses of various roles in the workplace.