Geography in Travel Planning

20-hour e-learning course

Geography is central to tourism as travelers take into account the travel time, routing, and local climate when choosing a vacation destination. In order to successfully sell travel products, you need to understand what drives tourist decisions and what geographically sets places apart. Study world geography and time zones to better advise clients on travel destinations and tours, and explore different regional modes of transport to offer customized travel itineraries.

Course code: TTC028ELEN02

Group discounts
Considerable discounts are available for multiple purchases (30+ users) of this course.
To simplify company-wide implementation, you can also host this e-learning course on your company’s Learning Management. Please contact us for more information.

Course format

• This self-study e-learning course requires approximately 20 hours of study, to be completed within 6 months from the purchase date (enrollment validity).
• After the enrollment validity expires, the users will not have access to the course content and will not be able to take the assessment.
• The recommended level for this course is Intermediate.
• Student performance will be based on an assessment. Please refer to the Assessment Information below for more details.

Registration information

• Please refer to our payment methods and applicable taxes.
• When you click to purchase the course, you will be directed to log in to your Training Profile through our Customer Portal.
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Upon completing this course, you will be able to:

• Plan travel itineraries
• Read maps using longitude and latitude
• Use three-letter city and airport codes
• Market and sell different types of geography based travel (physical, cultural and destination)
• Understand different modes of transport around the world

The key topics that are covered during this course include:

• Marketing and selling geography-based travel
• Understanding and reading maps
• Three-letter city codes
• Planning travel itineraries
• Currencies and currency codes
• World time zones
• Different modes of transport around the world

This course is recommended for:

• Travel counselors
• Airline sales and service staff members
• Tour operators
• Travel agents

Upon successful completion of the assessment, you will be granted an Award that you can print for your records.

Assessment information

Please read the General Information on Self-study exams.

• Delivery method: Unsupervised online-based exam. Assessment can be taken at any time at your convenience.
• Format: 100 multiple-choice questions
• Time allowance: 2 hours
• Passing grade: 70% correct answers
• Number of assessment attempts: 2

Important note: The assessment should be accessed after you have completed the course module. Once you have started the assessment you can no longer access the course module.