Sectors

Tourism sectors

A tourist trip is five kinds of work at once: transport, accommodation, attractions, travel organisers, and support services. Each one does a job the others cannot do.

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Grade 10 · Tourism · Sectors

Tourism is one paper that mixes planning, money, people and place.

The paper
One NSC paper of 200 marks. It covers tourism sectors, map work and tour planning, foreign exchange, attractions, heritage and culture, marketing, communication and customer care, and sustainable and responsible tourism.
Calculations and service
Foreign exchange must show the currency, the rate, and whether you multiply or divide. A tour plan must fit the time and the map. Customer-care answers name what the tourist needed and what the staff member should have done.
How a marker reads it
A common mix-up is to call the hotel the whole of tourism, or to call the petrol station an attraction because the guest happened to stop.

The paper is 3 hours. A slogan with no link to the attraction, or a rand amount with no rate, does not score the application marks.

Worked theory

Worked theory. On 12 June a tourist flies into OR Tambo, which is transport, sleeps two nights in a hotel in Sandton, which is accommodation, and visits Constitution Hill, which is the attraction. A tour operator packed the three into one booking. A petrol station on the way to the Hill is a support service when the transfer needs fuel. Leave out the flight and the guest never reaches Sandton. Leave out the hotel and they have a ticket and a site and nowhere to sleep. Leave out Constitution Hill and they have a bed and no reason they came.

More worked examples

A Knysna long weekend
A family boards a bus in Gqeberha and gets off in Knysna, so the bus is the transport. They sleep in a self-catering cottage, and they pay to walk out to the Heads, which is the attraction they came for. An aunt who booked the bus and the cottage is the organiser even though she is not a company. The garage that fills the bus before the garden route is support, and without that fuel the view never happens. If the cottage booking was never made, the Heads are still beautiful and the family still has nowhere to sleep.
A bakkie to Pilanesberg
A learner's uncle drives from Polokwane to a camp at Pilanesberg, and the bakkie is the transport. The chalet is accommodation and a night drive is the attraction. The uncle is the organiser because he chose the three and paid for them together. A petrol stop in Modimolle is support, even though nobody put it on a brochure. Cancel the night drive and put nothing in its place, and the chalet is only a bed.

In ordinary words

Transport moves the person. Accommodation is the bed. An attraction is the reason for the journey, and a travel organiser is the person or firm that packs those pieces into one trip. Support services are the ordinary stops the trip still needs, such as fuel, a bank or a clinic, and leaving any one of them out breaks the trip in its own way.

In South Africa

OR Tambo, a Sandton hotel and Constitution Hill are three sectors of one Gauteng day, and the garage between them is a fourth.

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What it is

A tourist trip is five kinds of work at once: transport, accommodation, attractions, travel organisers, and support services. Each one does a job the others cannot do.

More worked examples

Board walkthroughs on this topic. Open one, copy the working, then try the next.

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Classify these businesses into tourism sectors: a B&B, a car-rental company, a game reserve, a travel agency, a restaurant.

How we got there

Read this like a teacher at the board. We go slowly, name every number, and say why we take each step.

Explain in another language · 11

1. What is the question asking?

Read the question twice. Circle the unknown. Underline every number and unit. The paper is asking: Classify these businesses into tourism sectors: a B&B, a car-rental company, a game reserve, a travel agency, a restaurant.

In other words — as if you have never seen this before

If you have never seen this before: Sectors: accommodation, transport, food and beverage, attractions, travel organisers. We will name a method in words, write the formula with no numbers, then substitute one line at a time.

2. What do we already know?

Five businesses.

3. Which method — and why this one?

Sectors: accommodation, transport, food and beverage, attractions, travel organisers.

4. Step-by-step working

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Step A — Read the question twice
Slow down. Circle the word that names the unknown. Underline every number and its unit. Do not grab a formula yet — first decide what the paper is actually asking.
Why this step: If you can say the method in a sentence, you will pick the right formula. First-timers skip this and grab the first equation they remember.
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Step B — Write the given in a column
Five businesses.
Why this step: A column with units stops you mixing cm with m, or minutes with seconds. Markers can also see you started correctly.
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Step C — Name the method in words
Sectors: accommodation, transport, food and beverage, attractions, travel organisers.
Why this step: If you can say the method in a sentence, you will pick the right formula. First-timers skip this and grab the first equation they remember.
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Identify the given
B&B: accommodation. Car rental: transport. Game reserve: attractions. Travel agency: travel organisers. Restaurant: food and beverage.
Why this step: We only do one job per line so a marker can follow the marks — and so you can find a slip without starting over.
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Step G — Sense-check the size
Ask: is this the kind of number a Grade 10–12 paper would want? A speed of 3 000 ms for a learner walking, or a probability bigger than 1, means a unit or algebra slip. Estimate first: round the numbers and do the sum in your head.
Why this step: Markers write ‘unrealistic’ in the margin when the method is right but the size is wild. A 10-second head check often finds a missing 10² or a unit that never changed.
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Step F — Box the answer with its unit
One business per sector.
Why this step: A number without a unit is half a mark on a Physics paper, and a marker can miss a Maths answer that is buried in working.
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Step H — What the marker is looking for
On an NSC memo you usually earn: (1) a method mark for naming the right formula or idea in words, (2) an accuracy mark for substituting the given numbers with units, (3) an accuracy mark for the boxed answer with its unit. Write those three lines even if you are unsure of the arithmetic — blank pages score zero.
Why this step: First-timers chase the final number and leave the method blank. The memo still pays out for the idea and the substitution even when the last line is wrong.

5. The answer

One business per sector.

Copy onto your answer sheet — in this order

Answer: One business per sector.

6. Check it like a marker

Sectors depend on one another.

7. A trap first-timers fall into

First-timers often grab the first formula they remember, mix units (cm with m, minutes with seconds), or drop a minus sign. Write the formula in words first: “this equals that, because…”

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