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Business Studies Travel & Tourism The Day in a Life of a Tour frst aid kit to take with us engaging the audience Operator! on the guided tour. through the stories I was presenting. By Matthew As part of our Travel and As we were taking other Moorhead Tourism course as a class pupils we had to draw up a we had to conduct a guid- number of ofcial docu- Event Management ed tour. My experience ments before taking the As part of their course, with completing the guided Ghost tour of Belfast. This Year 14 Travel & Tourism tour Unit of Travel and included a risk assessment, course students have to Tourism at A-Level has itinerary and a route plan put their event manage- been greatly benefcial and to ensure ment skills to the test to interesting for my future the smooth career. There were a num- running of ber of diferent elements the event. to completing this unit suc- The Ghost cessfully and most im- Tour con- portantly in a professional sisted of 12 manner. diferent stops at the The frst task we had as a locations group was to decide what where type of guided tour we spooky incidents took plan, organ- would take, we decided on place all those years ago! ise and run a Ghost Tour of Belfast. There were a vast variety an event. This was followed by con- of locations so the students This year there were four ducting in-depth research on the trip we not bored. A groups who organised and of what content could be total of 48 people including delivered very successful included in the tour. This 3 staf went on the trip. and enjoyable trips this involved researching ghost We took the group to TGI year to a range of students! stories and myths of the Fridays for dinner before local area, this was a vital we visited the eerie Crumlin First up was a theatre trip part of delivering an in- Road Jail. for students to see Hair- formative and spooky guid- spray at The Riverside The- ed tour. I found this one of atre, Coleraine. the more challenging stag- Through completing the es to fnd true and accurate guided tour unit I have de- A group of students from ghost stories. However veloped many skills and Performing Arts, Music and through online research one of the most valuable Media Studies attended the and books there was plenty which was teamwork. This production—some even to choose from. Once this was vital to the success of sang along to “Welcome to stage was completed a the tour. Being given the the Sixties” and “Without number of aspects had to opportunity to be a tour Love”. be priced and put in place guide for the day also including transport, book- aforded me the experi- ing other attractions which ence of what it is like to included Crumlin Road Jail take a tour. I gained much as this was part of the confdence from speaking Ghost Tour, and sourcing a in front of a crowd on the busy streets of Belfast and 76