Assam ASSEB HSLC NSQF Tourism and Hospitality study materials
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Assam ASSEB HSLC NSQF Tourism and Hospitality study plan

Assam ASSEB HSLC NSQF Tourism and Hospitality · Give each week a clear focus.

8 weeks · About 7 hours per week

Week 1

Introduction to Tourism and Tourism Terminology & Tourism Industry Components and Types of Tourism

  • Define 25 core tourism terms in your own words (tourist, excursionist, inbound, outbound, domestic, FIT, GIT, package tour, itinerary, destination, transit route, tourism product, attraction, amenity, accessibility, ancillary service), attaching one Assam-based example to each definition

  • Classify 10 real or realistic trips into tourism types (domestic/international, leisure, business, cultural, pilgrimage, adventure, eco, medical, wellness, event) and justify each label with a single stated criterion

  • Draw a labelled diagram of the tourism system showing origin market, transit route, destination and the five industry components, then place eight named industry players onto it

  • Distinguish tourism, travel and hospitality as three linked industries, listing two outputs and two jobs from each

  • Explain the difference between a tourist, a same-day visitor and a transit passenger with one worked example of each

Your checkpoint

A 25-term illustrated glossary plus a 10-trip classification table, self-checked against the textbook with at least 90% correct labels

Week 2

Hospitality - Accommodation Operations & Hospitality - Food and Beverage Service and Production Basics

  • Identify the departments of a hotel (front office, housekeeping, food and beverage service, food production, sales and marketing, accounts, maintenance, human resources) and state one responsibility and one job role for each

  • Sequence the six stages of the guest cycle from reservation to post-departure and list three front-office tasks performed at each stage

  • Compare accommodation types (star-categorised hotel, resort, boutique hotel, heritage property, homestay, guest house, dormitory, paying guest) and give one Assam example for at least four of them

  • Name 15 items of food and beverage service equipment and cutlery, and state the specific use of each

  • Differentiate silver, plate, buffet, family and butler service by describing who serves, where the food is plated and one situation where each style suits

  • Compute occupancy percentage, average daily rate and revenue per available room from five given room-revenue data sets

Your checkpoint

Two annotated wall charts (guest cycle and food service sequence) plus a 20-item equipment identification quiz scored at 80% or above

Week 3

Travel Agency, Tour Operations and Travel Documentation & Communication, Grooming and Customer Care

  • Compile a travel document checklist for Indian domestic and international travel covering passport, visa, e-ticket, identity proof, insurance and health documents, noting validity rules for each

  • Describe the functions of a travel agency and a tour operator, and list five ways their services differ

  • Draft a three-night, four-day Assam itinerary for a group of ten, with a line-item cost sheet for transport, accommodation, meals, guide and entry fees, ending in a per-person selling price

  • Script three customer-interaction role plays of at least five exchanges each: a check-in complaint, an upselling conversation and a telephone enquiry, applying grooming, tone and etiquette standards

  • List ten grooming and personal presentation standards for front-office and restaurant staff and explain why each matters to the guest

Your checkpoint

A one-page client-facing itinerary backed by a full cost sheet showing total and per-person price, plus the three written role-play scripts

Week 4

Tourism in Assam and India - Destinations, Heritage and Culture & Safety, Hygiene, First Aid and Workplace Practices

  • Sequence the correct first-aid response for burns, cuts, fainting, heat stroke and choking, stating what to do and what never to do in each case

  • Assemble a 12-item first-aid box list and explain the purpose of each item

  • List eight food-handling hygiene rules drawn from FSSAI-style practice, covering storage temperature, personal hygiene, pest control and waste disposal

  • Map at least eight Assam destinations (Kaziranga, Manas, Pobitora, Majuli, Sivasagar, Guwahati with Kamakhya, Tezpur, Haflong, Dibru-Saikhowa) to their district, key attraction and best season

  • Name six UNESCO World Heritage Sites in India with their state, and describe two in one sentence each

  • Identify five common workplace hazards in a hotel or travel office and propose one control measure for each

Your checkpoint

A 40-question mid-point diagnostic across weeks 1-4, scored at 70% or above, with every wrong answer rewritten as a corrected fact in an error log

Week 5

Sustainable Tourism and Environmental Responsibility & Entrepreneurship, Employability and Career Pathways in Tourism and Hospitality

  • Explain the core principles of sustainable tourism and apply them by naming five negative impacts of tourism at an Assam site with one mitigation measure for each

  • Distinguish responsible tourism, ecotourism and mass tourism using one example of each

  • Draft a one-page venture canvas for a rural homestay or guided nature-walk business, covering target customer, three cost lines, two revenue lines and one required licence or registration

  • Match six career roles (front-office assistant, housekeeping supervisor, travel consultant, tour guide, food and beverage steward, tourism entrepreneur) to the qualifications, core skills and progression path for each

  • List five government or industry schemes and certifications relevant to tourism entrepreneurship in Assam or India and state who they help

Your checkpoint

A one-page venture canvas with three cost lines, two revenue lines and a simple break-even calculation, plus a six-role career pathway table

Week 6

Practical Skills, Field Visit / Project Work and Viva & Introduction to Tourism and Tourism Terminology

  • Design an eight-point observation checklist and five interview questions for a field visit or virtual tour of a local hotel, heritage site or tourist office

  • Structure a project report with title, objectives, methodology, observations, findings, conclusion and annexure, then draft each section

  • Compile 15 likely viva questions with concise model answers, revising the domain 1 definitions so each answer opens with a precise term

  • Present a five-minute spoken summary of your project findings without reading from the page

  • Record observations from the visit in a dated log with at least ten factual entries usable as evidence

Your checkpoint

An 800-1000 word project report draft with annexure and a 15-question viva answer bank, rehearsed aloud once

Week 7

Tourism Industry Components and Types of Tourism & Travel Agency, Tour Operations and Travel Documentation

  • Build a five-day Assam circuit itinerary (Guwahati, Kaziranga, Majuli, Sivasagar) with day-wise timings, inclusions, exclusions and terms and conditions

  • Recalculate the itinerary cost for a change of group size from 10 to 20 and explain which cost heads fall per person and which stay fixed

  • Answer 20 documentation case scenarios (lost passport, visa rejection, name mismatch on ticket, missed connection, expired identity proof) with the correct procedural step for each

  • Re-classify 15 mixed tourism scenarios into type and component, writing one line of justification per answer

  • Match ten customer complaints to the correct service recovery action and the communication skill required

Your checkpoint

A complete five-day itinerary dossier (day plan, cost sheet, terms and conditions) plus a 20-scenario documentation answer sheet, self-marked with corrections

Week 8

Hospitality - Accommodation Operations & Hospitality - Food and Beverage Service and Production Basics

  • Sit two full-length timed mock tests of 90 minutes spanning all eleven domains and score 75% or above on each

  • Re-drill the 30 most-missed items from the running error log until each is answered correctly twice in a row

  • Recompute occupancy percentage, average daily rate and revenue per available room on five fresh data sets without notes

  • Rehearse menu course order, service sequence and table-laying basics in a timed five-minute verbal run-through

  • Deliver a final ten-minute mock viva covering project work, terminology and one hospitality operations question

Your checkpoint

Two timed mock scores of 75% or above with a corrected 30-item error log and a signed-off viva rehearsal checklist

Milestones

Week 2: Both 12%-weight hospitality and core tourism domains have had a full first pass: glossary complete, guest cycle and service sequence charts finished, and the 20-item equipment quiz passed at 80%

Week 4: Mid-point diagnostic of 40 questions across domains 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 7 and 8 scored at 70% or above, with every error converted into a corrected fact in the error log

Week 6: Project report draft of 800-1000 words and a 15-question viva bank completed, with the five-minute oral summary delivered once end to end

Week 8: Two full-length timed mocks at 75% or above, all error-log items cleared twice, and a mock viva delivered without notes