Travel Agent

Congratulations! You have been chosen as the travel agent for your trip to Spain. As the travel agent, you decide how to get to your cities and where to stay. You must organize and plan well!

• Your job is to organize and plan the trip for your group.
• You will be responsible for arranging airfare, hotels, and transportation for your group members. This information will be recorded in a daily journal, in Spanish.

• You and your group will select which city you will begin your travels: Barcelona or Madrid.
• With your group, choose the main cities that you will visit during your stay.
• Book round-trip airline tickets for your group. You will be leaving from Philadelphia and arriving in your first city.
• Check the weather in your first city. Using that information, devise a packing list en español for your trip members. Include all items that you and your teammates need to take on your trip. Be sure to write it in Spanish!
• Investigate hotel rates for your home city. Keep in mind the day that you will be traveling. Two people will stay in each hotel room.
• Begin planning your first day. Check in with the activity coordinator, trip manager, and culinary expert to find out the places that you are going. Coordinate transportation for those places.
• Start your travel journal after your first Day has been planned. As the travel agent, you need to include: how you got to the city, where you stayed, and how you got back and forth to the activities.
• MIDPOINT: Get together with the other travel agents in your class. Compare information that you have been using. Share ideas and your travel journals, and help each other in the final half of your project. Check each other's information using the rubric.
• Create the itinerary with the rest of your group. This should be a basic outline of where you went, what you did, how much you spent, and how long you stayed there.
• As a group, prepare your presentation (en español) to the class. This can be in the form of either a travel handbook or a Power Point presentation. Your portion of the presentation will include:
  • How you got to your first city.
  • Some of the hotels that you stayed at. Describe one or two and include prices.
  • Transportation that you used. Did you use the Metro? RENFE?

Tips:

As the travel agent in your group, you should consider:

• Frequently check plans with other members of your group to arrange transportation.
• Keep within your budget!
• Consistently look at the currency exchange rate. Record the changes in your travel journal.
• Look at all aspects of transportation: taxis, bus, metro, and railroad when planning your activities. Work with the activity coordinator to plan activities close together to save money.