Attractions

Tourism attractions

An attraction draws a visitor when the place and the person match, whether the draw is an icon, the climate or the culture. The same site can be right for one guest and wrong for another.

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Grade 11 · Tourism · Attractions

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 think a famous name attracts every visitor, as if a family wanting rides and a guest wanting a view were the same person.

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 16 December an international visitor goes up Table Mountain for the view, which is the match between an icon and that guest. On the same day a domestic family chooses Gold Reef City for the rides, not for a silent view. A third person who wants neither a cableway nor a theme park will not be rescued by either name. The attraction is the match, and a wrong product leaves even a famous place unvisited.

More worked examples

A wetland instead of a marine park
A family from Pietermaritzburg spends a Saturday at a marine park in Durban because the children want tanks and a pool. A birdwatcher who travelled with them wanted the iSimangaliso wetlands and the birds, not a pool. The marine park did its job for the children. It did not become the birdwatcher's attraction by being well known in Durban. The match failed for one guest in the same car.
A winter pass in the Drakensberg
In July a hiker books a pass in the Drakensberg for cold air, a long path and frost on the escarpment. A shopper in the same minibus wanted an air-conditioned mall and leaves unhappy. The climate and the path were the attraction for the hiker. They were the reason the shopper should not have been sold that seat. The mountain did not change, and the visitor did.

In ordinary words

Icons are the famous sights people already know by name. Climate draws people who want a certain season, and culture draws people who want a way of life or a history they can meet. The product still has to fit that person, because rides for a family are not a cliff path for a hiker. If the match is wrong, the famous name does not save the day.

In South Africa

Table Mountain and Gold Reef City sit in the same country and draw different visitors for different reasons.

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What it is

An attraction draws a visitor when the place and the person match, whether the draw is an icon, the climate or the culture. The same site can be right for one guest and wrong for another.

More worked examples

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

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Name SA's World Heritage Sites in KwaZulu-Natal.

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: Name SA's World Heritage Sites in KwaZulu-Natal.

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

If you have never seen this before: KZN. 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?

WHS.

3. Which method — and why this one?

KZN.

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
WHS.
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
KZN.
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
iSimangaliso Wetland Park (natural); Maloti-Drakensberg Park (mixed, shared with Lesotho).
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
iSimangaliso and Maloti-Drakensberg.
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

iSimangaliso and Maloti-Drakensberg.

Copy onto your answer sheet — in this order

Answer: iSimangaliso and Maloti-Drakensberg.

6. Check it like a marker

SA has 12 WHS (by 2024).

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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