Devry HSOP450 week 1 assignment

hapter 1: Complete Case Problems 1 & 2 at the end of the chapter.

CASE PROBLEMS

1.

Suppose that you are a high school economics teacher. You plan to visit your principal’s office and convince her that tourism should be included as part of one of your courses. What arguments would you use?

2.

You are the minister of tourism of Jamaica, an island country. Identify the instructions you would issue to your statistics department concerning collecting data on tourist arrivals and expenditures.

Chapter 2: Read Internet Exercise Activity 2, and answer questions 1, 2, and 3 at the end of Activity 2.

ACTIVITY 2

Site Name:National Trust for Historic Preservation

URL:.preservationnation.org/”>www.preservationnation.org

Background Information:The National Trust for Historic Preservation is a privately funded nonprofit organization that provides leadership, education, and advocacy to save America’s diverse historic places and revitalize our communities.

Exercises

· 1.What are National Trust historic sites?

· 2.Where does the National Trust get its operating funds?

· 3.Does the National Trust decide which buildings are historic?

Chapter 3: If you were to get a job in the tourism industry, which area would you focus on and why? Also, discuss how would you go about searching for the position you would be interested in.