Introduction

¡Bienvenidos! You and your group are part of a new travel company, "Quetzal Adventure Tours". Your responsibility is to entice tourists to travel to Central America. This is an opportunity to work with a team to develop an exciting travel brochure that will exhibit your country of Central America as a leading vacation destination.

Your team has been assigned a country in Central America by "Quetzal Adventure Tours". Now it is your teams responsibility to become an expert on your country. You are expected to develop a unique travel brochure by using internet web sites.

Your brochure will include general information about the country, historic sites, recreational opportunities, entertainment, climate and weather conditions, accommodations, museums, food, map showing sites to visit, shopping, travel tips and travel advisories. Pictures and graphics will be used to illustrate the above. Finally you will have the opportunity to use your travel brochure to sell your travel destination to the class

¡Buena Suerte!

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You will be working in groups of 4. Each person will be responsible for a role on the team. Below is a list of roles with their job description.

TRAVEL AGENT

The travel agent will be responsible for helping the people to get to their destination. The travel agent needs to shop around and find the best prices (in US $ and the local currency) for the following:

• transportation to the destination
• transportation within destination (car rental, bus, train, subway, etc.)
• lodging accommodations
• travel tips
• travel advisories

The travel agent needs to offer a variety of packages depending on the amount a traveler wishes to spend. The travel agent must keep in mind that people of different incomes and interests like to travel. Some like to travel first class others don't mind having to ruff it. The travel agent must offer a variety of packages that have many choices of travel, accommodations and activities.

AMBASSADOR

The ambassador will be the person to provide a complete profile of the destination. The ambassador will provide the following information:

• a detailed map of the destination showing sites to visit
• geographic, demographic and environmental descriptions
• population
• weather reports
• list of major cities
• languages spoken
• religions
• holidays
• government
• currency used

HISTORIAN

The historian is responsible for providing a history of the country, report on any important pre-Columbian civilizations or cultures that existed, in addition any sites of trivial interest. The historian should research and include the following:

• specific historical locations
• a map and description of the significance of each historical location or culture
• a list of tours that are available that offer tourists an opportunity to see the historical sites
• a price list and schedule of tours

ACTIVITY COORDINATOR

The Activity Coordinator will be responsible for everyone having a great time on their vacation. Find the hot spots in their country. Remember that not everyone will like the same thing. Not everyone will be the same age. Some will want to get an early start on their day. Others will want to party all night and sleep late. You will need to find activities varying from indoors to outdoors such as:

• names and locations of areas of interest
• dinning possibilities, research typical dishes
• shopping areas
• recreational areas of interest
• museums
• cultural events
• athletic competitions
• musical performances

1. Be sure to keep a daily journal of your work and the webs sites that you're using in your research.
2. Once you've picked your role, each individual should visit the given web sites, start gathering all the information and images that you're responsible for. You cannot download all the information found at a site. You should copy and paste pertinent information into your own word files for editing. Your final print copy should be in your own words.
3. After you've collected all your information you must decide what information you really want to use. Now you're ready to start writing. Remember you need to be persuasive.
4. Once all your information and images have been collected and your rough draft are written it's time to put your travel brochure together. Make your brochure eye catching as well as informative.
5. Present you travel brochure to the class. Your presentation should be 10 minutes long.

• Remember you are trying to sell your vacation spot so it is important that you convince others that your country is the best.
• Use any visuals to help get your point across.

Resources

To complete you project you will need to use the following internet links:

The Electronic Embassy On the main page click on the foreign embassies of Washington D.C

The Ohio Foreign Language Web Site

Country Watch

Latin America Network Information Center

Latin America Network Information Center – music of L.A.

The Lonely Planet Guidebook

Latin World Web site

RETANET  (resources for teaching about the americas)

The CIA World Factbook

Americas.org

Bureau of Consular Affairs

The Universal Currency Converter

Evaluation

Conclusion

This webquest should be a fun and rewarding experience. As a result of this webquest will be an expert in you country and be able to present your travel destination with enthusiasm. Through this experience you will have gained an appreciation for the countries of Central America.

Credits

This webquest was adapted from other WebQuests ("¡Viva España!" by Bradley and Knudsen and "Latin America Travel Brochure" by Lauren A. Mitchell). It was designed to supplement Chapter One of the Pasos y Puentes textbook.

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