Destination Europe

Creation of a travel guidebook for traveling and vacationing through

Europe

Directions and Procedures

• 1. choose a partner who you can rely on to do good work

• 2. goal-create a travel guidebook that customers will use to vacation through the cities of Europe

• Guidebook will consist of no less than 7 pages

Most visited Countries in Europe

• ENGLAND• IRELAND• FRANCE• GERMANY• SPAIN• ITALY• GREECE

• RUSSIA• SWITERZERLAND• SWEDEN NORWAY • FINLAND • PORTUGAL • SCOTALND

• YOU WILL CHOOSE CITIES LOCATED IN THESE COUNTRIES

What must be produced?

• Fictional travel company• List of countries and cities that your company

provides travel packages for• Travel itineraries for each package of cities• Summary of total cost of traveling throughout

Europe (prices included by yourself, and show what a deal people get by traveling with you/your price)

• Background information of each country visited (general information)

Procedures

• You and your partner will be creating a travel guidebook to showcase what your company can provide in the form of European travel

• Guide book will be at least seven pages in length with pictures, descriptions, costs, etc.

websites

• www.expedia.com• www.hotels.com• www.cheaptickets.com• www.aaa.com• www.europeanddestinations.com• www.visiteurope.com• www.raileurope.com• www.goeurope.about.com• Google-European destination

Front Cover of guidebook

• Travel business design• Name of company with owners (this is you)• Logo or pictorial design for company• Address and phone number of company

(fictional)• Website (fictional)

Page 1

• List of cities and countries your travel company provides packages for

• Create group packages customers can purchase

• Packages must have at least 5 cities each• Create at least 3 travel packages• Customers must be able to visit at least 15

different cities between the different packages

Travel itinerary

• Travel itinerary- breakdown of schedule with hotels, means of transportation and planned events

• Plan the trip package for every detail such as how to get there, where to stay how to go form city to city and things to go and see

Pages 2 , 3 and 4

• Create travel packages with itinerary with specific destinations and events

• Prices for airfare from charlotte to first city to visit in Europe

• Lost of hotels with prices• Events schedule for each city visited– Give a day y day plan for 3 days in each city– Means of transportation between each city (plane,

train, rental car, bus)

Page 5

• Summary of packages with total cost• Hotels, car rentals, trains, planes etc.• Basic list of events for each package

Page 6

• Explanation and background of each country visited

• Languages spoken• Type of currency used• Cultural customs: how to behave in each city

(the do’s and don’ts of each culture)

Check List

• Front cover of guide book- company info• Page 1-list of countries to travel to and

packages• Page 2-travel itinerary one• Pave 3- travel itinerary two• Page 4-travel itinerary 3• Page 5- summary of packages with total cost• Page 6- countries backgrounds

Example

• Included in Package # 1– Frist class airfare– Hotel: Marriot– Event include guided tour of Washington

monuments, the white house, Arlington national cemetery, Broadway show, tickets to Boston Red Sox vs. NY Yankees

– Total cost of package #1 $1600/person with us– On your own cost of package #1 would be $3000

per person.