You must follow the instructions carefully to create an infographic based upon the environmental and social impacts of a specific trip.
The purpose of the infographic is to show the environmental and social impacts of your tourism trip.
The purpose of the infographic is to show the environmental and social impacts of your tourism trip.
Instructions
You are going to take a holiday for 1 week, flying from and returning to Geneva. You can choose any location and any combination of transport, accommodation and activities. You can be a single, group or family traveller. These choices will effect your impact and change the data for your graphic.
Elements that you must show are shown below.
Any other researched and specific environmental and social impacts upon your holiday location can be added.
Content that works well is change over time (trends) and location differences (maps).
Create context, such as equivalence (the size of 20 football fields, 10 Eiffel Towers, etc).
You are going to take a holiday for 1 week, flying from and returning to Geneva. You can choose any location and any combination of transport, accommodation and activities. You can be a single, group or family traveller. These choices will effect your impact and change the data for your graphic.
Elements that you must show are shown below.
- The distance travelled by plane and other transport and convert this into CO2 emissions
- An approximate impact of your accommodation needs
- An average impact of your activities in waste, plastic, CO2, physical impact, etc
- Resources used such as food and water, as well as average impact other resources used.
Any other researched and specific environmental and social impacts upon your holiday location can be added.
Content that works well is change over time (trends) and location differences (maps).
Create context, such as equivalence (the size of 20 football fields, 10 Eiffel Towers, etc).
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ACTIVITIES
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RESOURCES
Select your answers based upon your own habits and what a normal hotel stay would use and recycle to get an approximate figure. |
Mark scheme
5 marks for quality of content and data
1 - Little data and none of the calculations used. 3 - Satisfactory use of data and some calculations used. Impacts mostly clear and evidence of research. 5 - Detailed data with all calculations used. Impacts valid and clear. Evidence of effective research. |
5 marks for layout and visual effectiveness
1 - Little evidence of structure or organisation 3 - Satisfactory use of structure and visual techniques. 5 - Well-presented infographic with clear and effective use of data and graphical techniques. Clear and effective narrative flow. |