M4-5+Tourist+Advisor

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 * Investigate **
 * Design **
 * Plan **
 * Create **
 * Evaluate **

=** Context **= Tourism is an important part of the economy in many countries. People visit places for many different reasons. They might be interested in man-made tourist attractions such as art, architecture, museums, local culture and traditions, food and drink, music, drama and important historical sites. Also, people like to see natural attractions such as mountains, beaches, lakes, volcanoes etc. Many places have dedicated tourist information to help attract visitors to their location and guide them to spend their money while they are there.

=** Challenge **= You are going to use technology to present a location of your choice to potential tourists. You need to choose the form of presenting this information (eg: website, video, podcast, booklet, leaflet, interactive book etc.) and design and make the tourism information guide for your chosen audience. The information needs to be accurate, interesting and persuade your target tourists that they want to visit. It should be very informative covering topics such as weather, transport, sights, language etc. You need to choose somewhere you have in depth knowledge of. There needs to be a wide variety of presentation methods in the class. You should try to use only use original or copyright free material.

=** Area of Interaction **= Human ingenuity – we create to communicate our thoughts, feelings, needs and wants with others.

=** Learner Profile focus **= Our learner profile focus for this unit is ‘knowledgeable’. Add a paragraph on your document to show how you think you will be knowledgable in this unit.

=** Inter-disciplinary Links **= This are no inter-disciplinary links to this unit, however, it does build upon your English and Humanities skills.

=** Unit Handbook **= The unit handbook is below, feel free to print it out if you require.