Although the private sector forms the driving engine for the tourism industry, government has a major part to play in providing leadership and coordination. This role has been particularly evident in the past several years with the development and promotion of such special events as the Cabot 500 Anniversary in 1997, the 1999 Winter Games, Soiree'99, and the Viking Millennium. Special events help provide a theme or focus around which promotions are designed to induce tourists to visit the province. In this lesson, students will sample some of the attractions that Newfoundland and Labrador offers the visitor and at the same time explore some of the issues surrounding tourism. Weather and climate influence the way people live.
Resources shape the decisions that humans make as they meet their needs and wants.
Language Arts Contribute thoughts, ideas and questions to discussion and compare their own ideas with those of peers and others. Contribute to and respond constructively in conversation, small group and whole group discussion. Answer, with increasing independence, their own questions and those of others by selecting relevant information from a variety of texts. Use a range of strategies in writing and other ways of representing. Create written and media texts using an increasing variety of forms.