Travel & Tourism

Travel & Tourism - NCFE Level 3 Award
Supported Home Study
Course Summary

Reach Your Potential in Travel and Tourism
Here's your passport to an exciting career full of opportunities

Travel and tourism is an integral part of our economy offering a wide choice of opportunities - in tourism development, marketing, conference organisation and tour guiding to name but a few.

The course will give you an understanding of the structure of the travel and tourism industries and the way they operate. The distance learning course also covers such topics as intinerary preparation, fare calculation and product knowledge on international tourist destinations. Even better, this course is designed to help you develop general skills valued by employers everywhere such as communication, personal effectiveness and the ability to work as part of a team.

Get started today, and you can earn your Travel and Tourism Diploma in as little as six months, or take up to two years, if you prefer - the choice is yours.

Travel & Tourism Course Outline

Open learning improves career prospects and earnings
Study at home learning to work in Travel and Tourism.

If you want a career in Travel and Tourism, our tutor supported open distance learning Travel and Tourism course provides the necessary knowledge, skills and qualification without disrupting your current lifestyle.

Module 1: Applying principles in travel and tourism

• The principles of marketing in the travel and tourism industry
• The particular nature of the tourism products and how it will impact on the marketing activities of travel and tourism companies.
• The skills attributed which underpin personal effectiveness

Module 2: Customer Care and Retail Travel Practice

• Customer Care
• Management structures and styles
• Flights
• Hotels
• Coach, rail and car rental
• Packaged holidays
• Ancillary services

Module 3: Communication and Information Technology

• Reading and analysing complex texts
• Selecting and collating relevant information
• Planning and Preparing for a Formal Meeting
• IT equipment
• Word processing
• Spreadsheets
• Presentations
• Databases
• Searching for information
• Integrating information

Module 4: Tour Operations and Using Information Sources and Materials.

• Tour operations
• Tour Operations Contractual Components
• Tour Components and Costing
• Marketing Tools and Reservation Methods
• Job Functions of Key Tour Operator Personnel
• Information Systems and Material
• Classification and Storage Systems
• Marketing and Displays

Module 5:

In module five there are a variety of further optional units which you could choose from depending upon which area of travel and tourism you wish to go into or which area you are currently working in.