Travel & Tourism Summer Project:
Research Destinations
This activity is designed to prepare you for the kind of research that you might be expected to undertake on Travel and Tourism courses.
Being able to find appropriate sources, selecting relevant information and then putting the information into your own words are vital skills, particularly in the preparation of coursework. These are transferable skills, also useful in many other areas.
Investigate a tourist destination of your choice, either UK or worldwide, using three different reference sources:
- guidebook
- internet
- brochure
Correctly referencing your sources, answer the following questions. See the attached document for information on referencing.
- What destination have you chosen?
- Who does it attract?
(eg young people, couples, families)
- What attracts people to visit the destination?
(eg shopping, monuments, museums)
- What accommodation options are available for visitors?
- What are the transport links to the destination?
- Give your opinion on how well you think the destination meets visitor needs.
- Make sure you have correctly referenced your sources and present a bibliography.
Referencing
What is plagiarism?
Plagiarism is where you pass off the words and ideas of others as your own, or use someone else’s work without crediting them. Exam boards take plagiarism very seriously in coursework and frequently apply plagiarism software to check for instances. New College also uses software toexamine any work where plagiarism is suspected. Plagiarism is a serious offence and can besubject to disciplinary measures.
To avoid plagiarism it is important that you write in your own words. It's not enough to take someone else's sentence and change a couple of words around, this would still be regarded as copying. There must be a distance between how you have described something and the words of someone else. For your own learning, writing in your own words also demonstrates a higher level of understanding.
It is good academic practice to reference and you must avoid copying work from any source without acknowledgement.
In simple terms ….
Here are some examples of how to reference books, magazines and websites within the body of the text you are writing:
Book
“If you practise sustainable tourism you are someone who thinks about the impact of your visits on your travel destination.” (Appleyard et al, 2013, p7)Magazine or newspaper
The Guardian reported that twenty-nine inmates were participating in theprogramme (‘Serving time’, 2 February 1996, p21).Website
Thomas Cook is the best known travel agent in the UK and has been in business since 1841 (All the sources you refer to in the main body of your writing need to be listed at the end in a reference list. This list includes those sources from which you have either quoted or paraphrased.
A bibliography would also include your background reading. In a bibliography you list all sources you refer to, plus all other materials you read but did not quote.
Example reference list
Appleyard N, (2013) BTEC Level 2 First Travel and Tourism Student Book Chapter 11, Pearson Education Ltd
Duboudin T and Courtis B (2nd edition 1992) Cities of Australia, American Express
Sydney The Official Guide (Autumn/Winter edition 11, 2005), Sydney Tourist Information
The Caterer (8-14 May 2015)
About Thomas Cook, available at (accessed 22 June 2015)