Grade 12 - Tourism

TOURISM 12

Curricular Competency

Content

Big Ideas

Applied Design

Understanding Context

Defining

Ideating

Prototyping

Testing

Making

Sharing

Applied Skills

Applied Technologies

Services and products can be designed through consultation and collaboration.

Personal design choices require the evaluation and refinement of skills.

Tools and technologies can influence communications and relationships.

Engage in consumer-centred research and empathetic observation

Establish a point of view for a chosen design opportunity

Identify and analyze potential consumers, intended impact, and possible unintended consequences for a chosen tourism design opportunity

Identify criteria for success, identify constraints, and anticipate and address possible unintended negative consequences

Make decisions about premises and constraints that define the design opportunity

Take creative risks to generate ideas and enhance others’ ideas to create possibilities

Screen ideas against criteria and constraints, and prioritize them for prototyping

Critically evaluate how competing social, ethical, economic, and sustainability factors impact tourism locally, nationally, and globally

Collaborate with potential consumers throughout the design process

Identify, critique, and use a variety of sources of inspiration and information

Develop a product plan and/or service plan that includes key stages and resources

Obtain and evaluate critical feedback from multiple sources, both initially and over time

Based on feedback received and evaluated, make changes to product and/or service plan or processes as needed

Identify tools, technologies, materials, processes, and time needed for development and implementation

Use project management processes when working individually or collaboratively to coordinate processes

Share progress to increase opportunities for feedback, collaboration, and, if applicable, marketing

Decide on how and with whom to share or promote their product or service, their creativity, and, if applicable, their intellectual property

Critically reflect on their design thinking and processes, and identify new design goals, including how they or others might build on their concept

Critically evaluate their ability to work effectively, both individually and collaboratively

Evaluate and apply safety procedures for themselves, co-workers, and consumers in both physical and digital environments

Identify and critically assess skills needed for design interests, and develop specific plans to learn or refine them over time

Evaluate and apply a framework for problem solving

Explore existing, new, and emerging tools, technologies, and systems and evaluate their suitability for the task at hand

Evaluate impacts, including unintended negative consequences, of choices made about technology use

Analyze the role and personal, interpersonal, social, and environmental impacts of technologies in societal change

Examine how cultural beliefs, values, and ethical positions affect the development and use of technologies

design for tourism and hospitality services and products across multiple sectors

necessary components for tourism development, including market research strategies

role of disruptors in a tourism economy

emerging trends in the tourism industry, such as leisure innovation and First Peoples tourism

role of labour in sustaining tourism and hospitality operations and services locally and globally

entrepreneurship and small business development in hospitality and tourism

strategies for tourism stakeholder engagement and collaboration

risk management in tourism and legislation

event planning, coordination, and facilitation skills

cultural sensitivity and etiquette, including ethics of cultural appropriation

hospitality and communication skills to interact effectively with local and international tourists

career options and opportunities in various tourism sectors