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Highgrove Education – Highgrove Online School

Profits and passports: The Economics of Travel & Tourism

From backpackers to billion-dollar resorts, tourism is one of the largest and fastest growing industries on Earth- but behind every plane ticket and social media photo lies international winners and losers. This course focuses on the financial side of travel and tourism in relation to employment, and economic gains and losses. It will be of particular interest to those taking Geography or Economics, or considering a future career in the Travel and Tourism industry. 

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Key Information

COURSE SYLLABUS

Access Course Enrolment:
  • Enrolment in our pre-GCSE or pre-A level access course.
  • Access to our self-study materials and platform, live class lessons, and individual teacher support in Office Hours.
  • Weekly teacher-marked homework.
  • Half termly reports.
  • Support from our SENDCo for pupils with special educational needs or disabilities, including assessment for access arrangement entitlement.
  • Support with English for pupils whose first language is not English.
  • A Highgrove Education Office365 account, including Teams, SharePoint and a school email
DepartmentSocial Science
Course Length10 weeks 
Live LessonsOne 45-minute lesson per week
HomeworkApproximately half an hour a week 
ExaminationNone 
Entry RequirementsNone 

Course Syllabus

Lesson 1Introducing the business of travel and tourism
Lesson 2How tourism fuels economies
Lesson 3Boom or bust – the economic vulnerability of destinations
Lesson 4Winners and losers – inequality in tourism
Lesson 5Marketing destinations
Lesson 6Flying high - the cost of the aviation industry
Lesson 7The financial cost of mass market environmental degradation
Lesson 8Employment in the travel and tourism industry
Lesson 9Cultural commodification
Lesson 10Trends, tech and transformation: travel and tourism’s future