Travel and Tourism

Travel and Tourism in Your World: 

Students who choose to study Travel and Tourism in KS4 have the opportunity to explore the world of business in the travel and tourism industry through a stimulating and engaging curriculum. This course gives our students the opportunity to develop some of the knowledge they have gained in their geography KS3 curriculum on regeneration, city development and tourism so that they can apply this foundation knowledge to the travel and tourism course in more depth. It also helps to develop their technical skills in a more practical learning environment.

Regeneration of Portsmouth over the last 10 years has brought significant physical development, enhanced tourism and a raft of new enterprises. Over the next ten years, thousands of new jobs are expected to be created in the city, concentrated in a number of key sectors, one being tourism. Students will follow the Edexcel specification as it gives them a detailed insight into accommodation, tourism development and promotion, transport and visitor attractions. As part of the course students will investigate the importance of the travel and tourism sector to the UK, and investigate different types of UK destinations. Students will develop their written communication skills through report drafting and project management and their reading skills through a variety of research tasks. They will gather information from event reports, internet searches, brochures and news articles in order to create both essays, executive summaries and promote wider reading on the travel and tourism sector. 

Students who choose to study travel and tourism are provided with the foundation knowledge useful for careers in the tourism industry such as, travel agency, coordination and consultation, tourism management or guide and airline hospitality. 

This course enables students to develop their cultural capital to help them become more successful in the future and give them an awareness of the world around them and how industry is ever changing. A variety of visits are on offer to students at both a national and international scale across the curriculum to help broaden their minds.