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Overview

GCSE in Leisure and Tourism (Double Award) is one of a number of GCSEs in vocational subjects designed to offer students the opportunity to widen their participation in vocationally related learning.

The course contains a balanced spread of content, covering the investigation of Leisure and Tourism, marketing and customer service. It allows students to develop a valuable insight into the Leisure and Tourism industry through investigation and practical classroom activities. This qualification is suitable for both pre-16 and post-16 learners in full-time or part-time education.

This qualification has been developed as the replacement for Foundation and Intermediate Part One GNVQs. This specification is accredited at Levels 1 and 2 (Foundation and Intermediate) of the National Qualifications Framework and provides students with a progression route to Foundation and Intermediate GNVQs, NVQs at Levels 1 2 and 3 and VCE.

Specification aims

The aims of this specification are to encourage students to:

• Develop an understanding of how leisure and tourism organisations operate as businesses.
• Acquire knowledge and understanding of UK travel and tourism activities and destinations.
• Develop an understanding of how people spend their leisure time.
• Develop an understanding of how the leisure industry meets peoples´s needs.
• Develop an understanding of why people travel and how the tourism industry meets their needs.
• Develop an understanding of employment possibilities in leisure and tourism.
• Develop an understanding of how leisure and tourism organisations market the products and services they offer.
• Develop an understanding of the importance of customer service in leisure and tourism organisations.

To this end, the specification encourages courses which will:

• Provide a broad background of understanding and core knowledge of the leisure and tourism industry in the UK.
• Encourage a student-centred approach to learning together with the opportunity to apply knowledge of the leisure and tourism industries in a vocationally relevant way.
• Provide Centres with the opportunity to forge links with leisure and tourism businesses.
• Foster cross-sector themes and approaches so that students can gain an insight into related sectors, such as business, retail and distribution and hospitality and catering.
• Provide opportunities for progression into employment into the leisure and tourism industries or higher level vocational qualification in these or related sectors.