In conjunction with a group of your fellow travel professionals, your task is to create an itinerary for a group of students (your classmates) undertaking a week-long tour of one city. You will select the sites within that city (or within a very short distance from the city) that your tour will visit. You are creating an educational tour to help visitors understand the history of this city and region.

During this seven day trip you and your colleagues will act as guides to the sites that you have carefully selected to best enhance your tour group’s understanding of the cities past. Your itinerary will include seven days worth of historic sites

1.         On the day of your presentation you must convey the highlights of your itinerary to your prospective clients in no less than 7 and no more than 10 minutes (you will be timed!).

2.         As a travel professional, you will, of course, provide each tour (class) member a printed itinerary.

3.         Research binder: Each group will compile their research on their city and present it to the professor on the date of the class presentation. Include this information in a three ring binder. Your binder should include the information you have uncovered on the places you visit on tour. It should also include information on other sites in the city that you feel are significant, but were not as important as those you discuss in your presentation.

You will be graded on both your in-class presentation and your binder.

The outline of your historical tour (by day)

1.      Day One topic – an introduction to the current culture of the nation we will visit (food, music, clothes, art, religion, do & don’ts, etc.)

2.      Day Two topic – before 100        (Pre-Christian)

3.      Day Three topic – 101-500          (Roman Empire)

4.      Day Four topic – 501-1000          (Low Middle Ages)

5.      Day Five topic – 1001-1350         (High Middle Ages)

6.      Day Six topic – 1351-1550                       (Renaissance)

7.      Day Seven topic – your choice of one of the above historical time periods

Selected Cities

Day 1: Amsterdam, Barcelona, London, Paris, Vienna, York

Day 2: Alexandria, Athens, Florence, Istanbul, Jerusalem, Rome, Venice

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