By: Laurie Doyle
17/01/2020
Ontario students – did you know you can earn a free high school credit as part of your WorldStrides Explorica travel program AND further enhance your on-tour experience? Well, you can! One of our most exciting parts about being a student in our Travel and Tourism: A Geographic Perspective course is that when you engage in this course, you get more out of your travel – way more than just the credit! Read on and you’ll know what I mean.
You will think deeper about your travel program.
This course not only builds your background knowledge about the travel and tourism industries, but it also provides many opportunities to reflect on your own travel experiences with a new perspective. You’ll return from your trip with hundreds of photos and memories to last a lifetime. You may even be inspired to see more of the world! But consider this: What kind of footprint did you leave during your travels? What kind of tourist were you, and what kind of tourist or traveller do you hope to become? This course will encourage you to ask deeper questions, engage in critical thinking, and discover more meaningful and longer lasting impacts on your life that you can apply to your future travels.
This course has real world applications.
Travel opens your mind to new perspectives through experiences, introducing concepts you may not have realized were affecting you – economics, environmentalism, tourism types – and even what travel will look like in the future. Throughout the course, you’ll study and explore various parts of the globe. You’ll investigate opportunities that exist for tourism in your region of Ontario, the travel policies that are in place for your travel destination, and how sustainable tourism can be implemented around the world. Who knows, you may discover a new locale to add to your travel bucket list!
Your travels support the course, and the course enhances your travel program!
Most of the course is completed prior to your departure, allowing you to travel with a thorough knowledge and understanding of how the tourism industry works. After you return from your travel program, you’ll have two months to complete the course, including a reflective summative assessment that leverages your amazing, life-changing experience! Talk about a win-win! But don’t just listen to me – some of our students from last term (and their parents) had plenty to say!
“It really helped me kind of figure out what it means to travel ‘environmentally friendly,’ and help the economy in the local area I went to in Iceland. Anyone who takes this course is going to remember the lessons and remember how to travel friendly, where to visit, how to travel on a budget. Pay attention because it will be very helpful in the future if you’re planning on travelling for a semester or just going on vacation with friends or family.” -Emily
“I wanted to have the most enriched experience possible when I went on this trip so that I would have a good educational time on the trip.” -Lily
“My two children just finished their first online course and it went extremely well. They travelled to Japan earlier this summer and had been working hard both prior to and after their travel adventure. The course was Travel and Tourism: A Geographic Perspective offered through WorldStrides. The course allowed them to enjoy their trip in a more meaningful way. As well, upon their return they enjoyed sharing their travel pictures as part of one of the course assignments. Overall the online course is laid out in a friendly, well thought out way. The children could watch their progress and had helpful monthly checkpoint meetings on the phone with awesome WorldStrides teachers. The course has inspired them to travel more and has opened their minds up to the fun of online learning. We would recommend this course and WorldStrides to anyone considering online learning!” -Dan
Interested in receiving more information about the course and registration? Click here and we will contact you soon! Term 2 registration is OPEN now until January 31. 2020. Questions? Email us at discoverycanada@worldstrides.org.
Laurie Doyle is both an instructor for Travel and Tourism: A Geographic Perspective (CGG3O) and a Senior Client Experience Manager who helps teachers plan epic educational tours for their students. She is an Ontario Certified Teacher (OCT) who has worked tirelessly to make academic credit opportunities available to Ontario travellers.