Tour Itinerary Planning & SADC Tourism is one of 10 topics in the Grade 11 Tourism CAPS syllabus, covered across 3 lessons on Study Vault. Below are real practice questions from this topic with full worked answers.
Sample practice questions
Easy
1. A detailed, day-by-day plan of a tour, setting out destinations, activities, transport and accommodation, is called a/an:
Itinerary
Gateway
Meander map
Core market
Answer: Itinerary — An itinerary is a detailed, day-by-day plan of a tour, setting out destinations, activities, transport and accommodation.
Easy
2. A pre-planned tour that runs on fixed dates, following a set itinerary that individual tourists can book onto, is called a:
Scheduled tour
Custom itinerary
Below-the-line tour
Niche market tour
Answer: Scheduled tour — A scheduled tour is pre-planned and runs on fixed dates with a set itinerary, as opposed to a custom, tailor-made itinerary.
Medium
3. Why does logical tour planning consider geographic proximity when arranging an itinerary's order?
To avoid needlessly backtracking, by visiting nearby places before moving to a distant region
Because geographic proximity has no effect on realistic travel times
Because all destinations are always the same distance apart
Because tourists never care about the order in which places are visited
Answer: To avoid needlessly backtracking, by visiting nearby places before moving to a distant region — Considering geographic proximity avoids unnecessary and costly backtracking, by visiting places that are near each other before moving on to a more distant region.
