Final Summative Assessment Outline

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Part A: Multiple Choice Part B: Terms and Significance Part C: Short Answer Part D: Long Answer

Final Summative Assessment Review
In order to prepare and study for the Final Summative Assessment, you should review the following:

Terms: Define each term and explain the significance to the study of travel and tourism.

aboriginal adventure tourism adventure travel archipelago Arawaks bibliography birth rate biodiversity business travellers Caribs Central Standard Time CitationMachine.net Classification of Travellers chart coral covering letter Creole climograph commodification components of the the tourist industry chart coral reef importance Covering Letter crime rate cultural region currency convertor death rate demographic characteristics demographic region direct tourist spending discretionary money domestic tourist Earth Day Eastern Standard Time Ebola virus ecological footprint ecotourism embedded citation first class section food products grown in the Caribbean functional region G.D.P. glossary graphic organizer Great Barrier Reef Greenwich Gilbert (hurricane) GMT gridlock guarantor gridlock homogeneous region honeymoon project Hurricane Gilbert immigrant indentured labourers Independent Travellers

International Date Line CU log jet lag Job Shadowing land area large-scale maps 1:50 000 Latitude Longitude malaria migrant MLA Style Guide (green bibliography package) Mountain Standard Time multifactor regions Newfoundland Standard Time Pacific Standard Time Planned Travellers polyps population density precipitation Prime Meridian Reggae region Reluctant Travellers resume SARS single-factor regions Sir Sanford Flemming small-scale maps souvenirs sustainable tourism Sydney Morning Herald Sydney Opera House temperature range time zones tourist tourist destinations for Canadians travel barriers travel motivators travel variables turnaround times typhoid Uluru UT West Nile Virus wildlife corridor wilderness tourism WTO WTTC yellow fever

Understand the Attractions, Issues and Problems

1. Travel and Tourism Industry
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3. Caribbean
4. Reducing child-sex tourism
5. poaching
6. ecotourism
7. child-sex tourism
8. crime against tourists
9. effects of war and terrorism on travel and tourism
10. Why should a traveller be cautious when travelling in certain countries?

Skills

1. Passport Applications- where do you pick one up? How do you apply? How much does it cost? How do you acquire a guarantor?
2. Describe the components of a five paragraph essay used for your Culminating Unit.
3. Describe the skills required to plan a honeymoon.
4. How could you gain experience for a career in travel and tourism?
5. Why are e-mail and Internet skills important in the Travel and Tourism industry? Explain.
6. Why should students not plagiarize work from their peers or from the Internet? Explain.

Course Material

1. Describe what you learned from doing the Culminating Unit. What is your Culminating Unit  thesis?
2. If you were a government official, which travel or tourism issue would you focus time and money to help reduce or solve this issue? How would you do this? Explain.
3. How will your "Honeymoon" project help you for the future? Explain.
4. How do governments use the media to their advantage?
5. As an employee of a large company, how would you reduce your impact on the environment?
6. What is the greatest advantage in using regions to study the world?
7. List seven (7) factors to help explain why world citizens are spending more money on tourism?
9. Look through your answers to the "Discovering Your Tourism IQ" . If you don't have the correct answers, check the back of my classroom door at school.
10. Review the aboriginal history of of Australia
11. Why are there climate differences in the northern and southern regions of Australia?
12. Describe the problems caused by seasonal jobs in the Caribbean.
13. Describe what is required in a resume and covering letter.
14. Describe three different careers that relate to travel and tourism.
15. Why is it important to learn how to label the countries on a world map? Provide three reasons.
16. Why should backpackers who are traveling around the world budget their money? Explain.
17. How has technology affected the tourism industry? (ABM machines,cell phones,computers,Internet,pagers,television)
18. Where would you like to travel in the world? Explain how you will plan and prepare for this trip.
19. How did the August 2003 blackout affect tourism?
20. Where would you find the history of passports in Canada?
21. Why should a traveller be cautious when travelling in certain countries?
22. List the six (6) characteristics of the travel and tourism industry.
23. What are direct payments?
24. How does Prime Minister Can Eat All Night help you?
25. How do threats of terrorism affect the travel industry?
26. List things a tourist can do to avoid becoming a victim of crime.
27. Why is Tourism especially important in the developing world?
28. How does the tourism industry benefit from travel a package?

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