SPORTS ENTERTAINMENT AND RECREATION MARKETING WEBQUEST

Project Objective:

You and three of your buddies are planning for beach week after graduation. You are not satisfied with Ocean City, Virginia Beach or Myrtle Beach, you want something different, something that you will remember the rest of your life. Your buddies know that you are whiz on the Internet and have tasked you to plan a trip to remember. The objective of the webquest is for you to familiarize yourself with the ways that your can purchase travel and recreation on the Internet. You will be visiting websites that are connected to the travel industry. Until several years ago this information was only available to Travel Agents that you had to go to their location or phone them to plan a vacation or business travel. The Travel Agency is a dying industry and the Internet is one of the main reasons. Your purpose will be to first familiarize yourself with the number and types of websites that are available on the World Wide Web and what services they provide for their users or customers. The second purpose is to make your buddies happy with your choices. You must also track the advertising that appears when you visit a website; this should be on a separate sheet of paper.

Tasks:

How do I fly there?

Since you may be flying to your location, your first task is to visit several sites to get flight information and pricing. You have three objectives or quests in this section. You must visit one travel site, one legacy airline site and one low-cost airline site and price the following. A flight from the Washington DC Area to Los Angles, one flight leaving tomorrow and returning a week later and one flight leaving in 60 days and also staying for a week. What are the differences in the prices? Did you check to see if there were differences in leaving from any of the three airports in the Washington DC area. Was there a difference between the Travel websites and the airline sites? Do you see the need for planning early for this trip? Is there another way to get to Los Angles without taking the plane? See if you can find one example and its cost. Please make sure that you are recording the advertising that pops up on the websites. Repeat this exercise and replace Los Angles with London England.

Beach Week here we come!

You and your friends have each saved $1000 for this trip. Each of them is counting on you to give them something that they will remember for the rest of their lives. As a group you have decided to see which is better a trip to an exotic beach or to Europe to see the sights. You must price out the cost to include the flight, rooms and admissions to the sights. By the way, one small problem even though you could go to Expedia.com, Travelocity.com or Obitz.com to plan the whole thing for you, your friends want you to price each part of the trip separately, in case they would like to change parts of the vacation. So first get a price on a Full Service Travel Website and then price out the parts of the vacation separately. Again make sure you are recording the advertising as your visit the sites.

Suggested Travel Industry Websites:
There are thousands of sites that help with the planing of your trip; these are just a few suggestions. Make sure that you cite your source for each part or leg of your trip.

Full Service Travel Websites

www.Travelocity.com
www.Expedia.com
www.Orbitz.com

Airlines Legacy Airlines
www.aa.com (American Airlines)
www.united.com
www.delta.com

Low Fare Airlines
www.southwest.com
www.jetblue.com
www.airtran.com
www.flyted.com

Train
www.amtrak.com

Bus
www.greyhound.com

Hotel/Resort Rooms
www.hotels.com

Cruise Lines
www.carnival.com
www.ncl.com

Car Rentals
www.hertz.com
www.avis.com
www.alamo.com

Scoring Rubric:

Scoring Rubric

Randy Poland
Park View High School
Sterling VA