Cambridge IGCSE™ Travel & Tourism (0471) | Lesson 1 – What Is Tourism?

An enquiry-based, exam-focused lesson designed to engage students from the very first lesson while building the core knowledge required for success in Cambridge IGCSE Travel & Tourism.

Move beyond traditional PowerPoint lectures with this professionally designed lesson that encourages students to think critically about one of the most fundamental questions in tourism:

“If you walk across town to a café, are you a tourist?”

Using real-world scenarios, collaborative learning and international case studies, students investigate the official tourism definitions before applying them to authentic examples and Cambridge-style examination questions.

What’s Included
✔ Fully editable PowerPoint presentation (approximately 30 slides)
✔ 55–60 minute ready-to-teach lesson
✔ Teacher guidance and suggested answers
✔ Retrieval starter activity
✔ Enquiry-based lesson structure
✔ Think–Pair–Share activities
✔ Collaborative learning tasks
✔ Real-world tourism case study
✔ Current global tourism statistics
✔ Cambridge-style exam questions
✔ AO1–AO4 assessment opportunities
✔ Exit ticket plenary
✔ Homework activity