LESSONS, CURRICULUM EXAMPLES and CLASSROOM RESOURCES
Business Career Guide Explore careers in business with llinks to job descriptions, which include information such as daily activities, skill requirements, salary and training required. Source: Vocational Information Center

Career Quest The Career Quest lesson is an opportunity for students to explore one major employment area (the hotel industry) and learn to conduct a career search on the Internet. Source: Sharon McKenzie

Exploring Potential Tourist Attractions in Your Community Students consider how some of their favorite local places might be interesting spots for visitors to their community to see. Source: NY Times

Handbook: Hospitality and Tourism Page from a high school curriculum handbook describing cluster and suggested student attributes. Source: Henry County High School

Hospitality and Tourism Management Resource Library Contains numerous essays on hospitality management written by Australian Tony Eldred, a professional hospitality trainer. Source: Eldred Training & Development

Hospitality Business Alliance The site of an educational partnership formed by the National Restaurant Association and the American Hotel & Lodging Association Educational Foundation to create a nationwide system of high school hospitality courses linked with mentored worksite experiences. Source: NRAEF.org

Institute for Tourism Studies Provides tourism and hospitality Web resources, hospitality careers links, and a variety of other information useful to the hospitality and tourism industry. Source: Roosevelt University

Institute of Destination Architects and Designers Youth Education Program Scroll down for lots of travel and hospitality links for exploring destination design implications. Source: IDAD

International Visitor Lesson Grade 9-12 students learn about cultures by constructing a tourism activity. Source: Diana Knauth

Journal of the International Academy of Hospitality Research The full text of research papers in the hospitality industry. Source: Scholarly Communciations Project

National Tourism Database Searchable database of citations to extension service publications on tourism business and management. Nearly 100 publications are available in full text. Source: Michigan State Univ. Extension

Phil's Place: Tourism Page Tourism sites for all 50 states. Elementary teachers should check out this site's other resource pages. Source: Philip Hess

School of Tourism and Hospitality Management: WebQuests A selected few WebQuests on tourism and hospitality. Source: School of Foreign Languages

School Travel Agency Lesson Plan Grades 3 -12 lesson plan covering geography, language arts, visual arts and technology. Source: Education World

Tourism & Hospitality Research Center Resources Extensive list of links for journals and resources. Source: Purdue University

Tourism Overview This Learning Segment provides an overview of the tourism industry - including career information and DECA - an association for students and teachers of marketing, management and entrepreneurship. Source: DECA

Travel and Hospitality Texas Tech Prep resource page for Travel and Hospitality Career Cluster. Source: Upper Rio Grande College Tech-Prep Youth Consortium

Travel and Tourism Utah competency based recommended sequence of instruction wrapped around the text Viewpoint, An Introduction to Travel, Tourism, and Hospitality by Nona Starr. Source: Utah Office of Education

What is Tourism? Online lesson defining tourism and identifying dimensions of subject. Source: Northern Arizona University