Purpose
Students act as travel agents to answer how they can plan a realistic, culturally informed trip to a Spanish-speaking country for a specific client. Through a travel-themed launch and guidance from a travel professional, teams research geography, weather, transportation, lodging, attractions, food, budgets, current events, and travel challenges while applying Spanish travel vocabulary, questions, and past-tense verbs. Teams synthesize credible sources into a client-ready multimedia itinerary, then strengthen its language, logic, and accuracy through peer, teacher, and midpoint client feedback. Weekly reflections and rubric-based assessment culminate in a live pitch at a Travel Agent Expo for classmates, teachers, and community partners.
Learning goals
I can use Spanish past-tense verbs, travel vocabulary, and question words to describe travel experiences and communicate with a client. I can research and synthesize reliable information about geography, weather, transportation, lodging, attractions, food, costs, current events, and cultural practices to design a realistic itinerary. I can collaborate with peers and travel professionals, justify planning decisions, and solve an assigned travel problem using evidence and relevant Spanish vocabulary. I can use feedback, weekly reflections, and revision to create and deliver a polished multimedia travel portfolio and live client pitch at the Travel Agent Expo.
Products
Teams will build a travel portfolio with researched flights, lodging, transportation, attractions, weather, bilingual packing lists, meals, travel tips, a recent news summary, a budget, and a researched response to an assigned travel problem. Throughout the project, they will create section drafts, weekly travel-agent debriefs, and revision notes based on peer, teacher, midpoint client, and travel-professional feedback. Each team will produce a polished multimedia vacation package using Spanish travel vocabulary, question words, and past-tense verbs to justify how the itinerary fits the client’s needs. At a Travel Agent Expo, teams will deliver a live client pitch, answer audience questions, defend their decisions, and submit individual and group reflections documenting growth in research, communication, collaboration, and problem-solving.
Launch
Launch with a “Travel Agent Expo” featuring a simulated airport check-in, suitcase scavenger hunt, and mystery map reveal of Spanish-speaking destinations. Teams rotate through flight, hotel, attraction, weather-and-packing, food, and transportation stations using authentic information shared by a travel professional or tourism partner. In a timed Destination Dash, teams match a mock client’s needs with a destination, cultural highlights, and practical travel choices before receiving their assigned country and “Uh-Oh” situation. Each team delivers a one-minute pitch addressing: How can we, acting as travel agents, plan a trip to a Spanish-speaking country for our client?
Exhibition
Host a Travel Agent Expo and Voyage Open House where groups present polished travel portfolios and deliver live Spanish-supported client pitches to classmates, teachers, families, and invited travel professionals. Guests review each itinerary’s flights, lodging, attractions, weather, food, budget, current event, and researched response to the assigned travel issue, then ask questions about the group’s decisions. Audience feedback and a rubric assess research quality, Spanish vocabulary, trip logic, problem-solving, and collaboration before students complete a final self- and group-reflection.
