Our Vacation Project https://my.visme.co/projects/90yq6mym-vacation-to-cancun
“Cancun Vacation Project” – Visme. Acessed March 15, 2019. https://my.visme.co/projects/90yq6mym-vacation-to-cancun
“Budget in a pie”- Excel. Accessed March 15, 2019.
DL fluency reflection: Information In this Math Project, I truly believed I have accessed, acquired, authenticated, organized and used information in a fluent manner. We used popular and recommended websites to access travel information and local websites such as London drugs are additionally used. This would ensure the credibility and legitimacy of our sources as the sources are heavily used and monitored. When researching pricing for flights, insurance, and car rentals, we inserted fake credit card information to surface taxes and hidden fees. This was especially true for vacation activities, such as a docking fee for sailing that was not advertised on the website. On a google doc, organized by Debi and Me, we put down all our information and made sure it followed our vacation schedule. All the information was calculated into our budget and realistically fit into the time between other activities, the hours the activities are available and their estimated duration. All this research and careful information sourcing do prove my fluency in information.
Core Competency Reflection: Developing Ideas My partner Debi was born in Mexico and grew up in the country in her earlier years. Visiting Debi’s home town as a tourist, and having her, a long-ago local become my tour guide would’ve been the most ideal idea. Due to many absences from both me and her, our ideas and perspectives on the project were communicated poorly. Our absences made the researching hard as we would lack the knowledge of our local one day and lack the tourist perspective another day. We decided to switch to a more mainstream vacation location as many more all-inclusive activities and tourist activities were heavily advertised. This making our researching and planning much easier which helped us catch up on our absences and major family events. This change in idea to fit our situation demonstrates my fluency in developing ideas.
What is the role of a Travel Agent: Travel agencies often offer better price points for the customer. This is because of vacation companies partner with travel agents. The exchange works with vacation companies can offer better deals and discounts in exchange for publicity by the travel agents. Traveling agents additionally can make your vacation planning much easier. Planning vacations can be extremely tedious and the person planning could forget to plan important but small activities. These can range from checking the country’s immunization requirements and checking the legitimacy of the vacation company they are working with. The travel agents have much more experience in planning vacations and they can add in many benefits into your vacation as they also know strategies to find legitimate and deals. Travel agents, in general, make your vacation planning experience much easier as they will book, research and your vacation.