Course description

This course is the first scheduled stop on your tour of the travel industry where you will explore travel agency operations that will allow you to compare the career opportunities in travel. You will learn to interpret travel materials and navigate the rules that govern different modes of travel. You will discern the purposes and functions of specific travel documents, customs, consulates, tourist boards, and Canadian travel trade associations. You will delve into the costing and selling of holidays and tours that will include travel agency ethics.

Course details

Hours: 36
Credits: 3
Prerequisites: None
Corequisites: None

Build courses into a credential

This course is part of the following micro-credential(s):


Credit transfer

Have you taken this course or an equivalent course? Contact the Credit Transfer Office.

Registration dates

Not all courses are offered each term.

Fall 2023 registration opens July 24, 2023. Winter 2024 registration opens November 27, 2023.

Delivery options

In person: classes held in person on a campus/site in a classroom/lab/shop/studio for the course duration

Online - Asynchronous: ​100% online delivery, no scheduled day or time course requirements with the instructor, assigned due dates

Online - Synchronous: 100% online delivery, scheduled day and time course requirements with the instructor, assigned due dates

Hybrid: any combination of in person, timetabled, on campus, online, and hyflex delivery