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The Tourism Textbook

The most current, comprehensive and best priced Canadian textbook on the market!

Tourism & Travel: Focus Canadatourism textbook cover
A Guide to Canada’s Tourism
Industry and its Careers

274 pages      
7th Edition (Revised) (December 2008)
Price: $45.00

Chapters:

  1. Canada’s Tourism Industry

  2. The Creation of Markets

  3. Who Manages Service?

  4. The Airlines

  5. Rail, Auto, Bus, Cruise

  6. Accommodations

  7. Food & Beverage

  8. The Meeting Business/Events

  9. The Tour Operator

  10. The Travel Agent

  11. Working in Tourism

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COURSE PACKAGE 101 (Updated January 2009)
INTRODUCTION TO TOURISM
A 36-HOUR COURSE

  1. INSTRUCTIONAL GUIDE
    1. Course Outline
    2. Assignments
    3. Lesson plans and notes
    4. Visual aids (for presentations)
    5. Experiential learning activities
    6. Review question answers
    7. Test banks
  2. COURSE-ON-DISK (on CD)
    1. The Course Outline
    2. Detailed lesson plans and notes
    3. Assignments and handouts
    4. Tests
  3. POWERPOINT PRESENTATION
  4. TEXTBOOK

PRICES:

Course package 101 (1,2,3,4 above)
$170.00+$10.20GST+$9.80 shipping = $190.00

Course package 101 (1,2,3 above)
$150.00+$6.43 GST+$13.57 shipping = $170.00

Text
$45.00+$2.70GST+$7.30 shipping = $55.00

Approved as a learning resource by BCSTEG (Secondary Tourism Educators' Group of BC) and the Learning Resources Centre, Alberta.

COURSE PACKAGE 102
TEACHING GUEST SERVICE SKILLS

70-page Instructional Guide

Service skills are what employers are looking for. Give your students an advantage when they look for a tourism service job. Guests today expect flawless service and this requires in depth training and skills practice.

This highly experiential course includes real-life host-guest interactions and situations. Using role-play scenario sheets, students practice their skills and then receive verbal and written feedback.

Modules:

  1. Managing Guest Service

  2. Basic Skills Development

  3. Handling Guest Concerns

  4. Handling Angry Guests

Module 1 can be used with Chapter 3: Who Manages Service? in the textbook Tourism & Travel: Focus Canada, 7th edition.

Price:
$50.00 + $3.50 +$6.50 shipping = $60.00

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Email: vtimmons@island.net
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