Leisure & Tourism GNVQ

Leisure and Tourism is the fastest growing employment sector in the UK’s economy. A GNVQ in Leisure and Tourism (Intermediate) will give you the opportunity to either progress onto the Advanced courses where you can specialise in either leisure or travel, or enter employment with training. The Intermediate award provides you with:

 a broad background of understanding and core knowledge

 a student centred approach to learning

 the opportunity to link up with local leisure and tourism outlets

 knowledge of the key components and functions of the leisure and recreation and the travel and tourism industries, and their products and services

 an awareness of how leisure and tourism organisations operate as a business

 an awareness of marketing, promotion and customer service concepts

 the opportunity to study the growth of tourism, its importance to the UK economy and the positive and negative impacts of tourism

For the award of an Intermediate GNVQ, you must complete six Units. The table below gives you some idea of the scope of these Units.

Compulsory Units

Unit 1 Investigating Leisure and Tourism

Unit 2 Marketing in Leisure and Tourism

Unit 3 Customer Service

Unit 4 Impacts of Tourism

Optional Units

Unit 5 UK Tourist Destinations

Unit 6 Major Short Haul Destinations

Unit 7 Relating Exercise to Health and Fitness

Unit 8 Sport and Fitness Provision

Unit 9 Running a group Activity Session

 

An Intermediate GNVQ is worth 4 GCSEs.

 

For further information please see Mrs Jenner or Mrs Walker