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Leading Hotels Activities – Information for Teachers There are currently 6 activities in this suite of resources.

The activities relate to a report in British Hospitality: Trends and Statistics 2008, published by the British Hospitality Association, as referred to in an article on 5 December 2008 on the website www.caterersearch.com.

Suggestions for approaches and answers to the activities are provided for teachers.

Purpose and description

The activities can be used to support different qualifications and levels, for example the 3 levels of the Diploma in Hospitality, the GCSE in Leisure and Tourism and Skills/Functional Skills. The content will also be relevant for learners starting the Diploma in Travel & Tourism from autumn 2010.

The activities:

• are work-related, using industry statistics and providing examples of sources of research

• increase in difficulty, with the first 3 activities broadly related to level 1 and activities 4 to 6 broadly related to level 2.

• could be used to introduce Foundation learners to leading UK hotel chains and brands for the level 1 Diploma in Hospitality topic ‘Introducing the UK Hospitality Industry’ and the Diploma in Travel and Tourism topic ‘Working in Travel and Tourism’.

• would help to give Higher learners an idea of the size and composition of the hotel sector for the level 2 Diploma in Hospitality topic ‘Exploring the UK Hospitality Industry’ and for the Diploma in Travel and Tourism topic ‘The UK Travel and Tourism Sector’.

• could introduce the size, range and importance of the UK hotel sector to Advanced learners for the level 3 Diploma in Hospitality topic ‘Investigating the hospitality industry’ and help place the sector within its international context and for the Diploma in Travel and Tourism topic ‘Changes and Trends’.

• could help GCSE Leisure and Tourism learners to ‘understand the nature of the leisure and tourism industry’.

• support Functional ICT/ICT by asking learners to select and use appropriate software applications to record and sort information obtained from the report and represent it graphically

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• support Functional Maths/Application of Number by asking learners to work with large numbers, rank hotels, interpret tables, and apply mathematics in order to represent information graphically

• can help learners at levels 2 or 3 build confidence in using ICT and maths in hospitality contexts by first working through the earlier, easier activities, however teachers can also easily adapt the later activities so that they stand alone

Format(s)

Practitioners may wish to provide learners with electronic versions of the Leading Hotels Activities so that they can use the tables in Word and transfer information to other software packages such as Excel. This would save time when carrying out the activities, and help develop ICT skills, however this may reduce the opportunities for learners to work with numbers.

Alternatively teachers may prefer to hand out hard copy of the activities. Learners can then decide for themselves which software to use, create their own documents, enter and check data from scratch etc.

The activities can also be completed wholly or partly on paper without the use of computers.