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Via Afrika Publishers Topic 2 1. Packaged tour, Escorted packaged tour, Group packaged tour,
Independent packaged tour, Scheduled tours.
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2. A tourist profile is a summary of personal information and facts relevant to the tourist’s wants and expectations. The tourist profile helps the travel agent plan a tour and make sure that the needs of the tourist are met.
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3. A valid passport, a valid visa, sufficient funds to cover their stay in the country,
a return ticket, or onward ticket to another country, international law requires travellers crossing the borders of countries where yellow fever is endemic, to have a yellow fever vaccination.
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4. An identity number,
two passport photographs, fingerprints must betaken if aged 16 years or older, a fee dependent on the type of passport applied for.
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5. DST is away of making better use of daylight by setting the clock ahead during summer months thus losing one hour) when DST starts, and setting it back again one hour in the winter months (thus gaining one hour) when DST ends.
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6. The phrase timezone refers to any of the 24 longitudinal divisions of the earth's surface in which a standard time is kept, the primary division being that bisected by the Greenwich meridian. Each zone is 15°
of longitude in width, with local variations, and observes a clock time one hour earlier than the zone immediately to the east.
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7. Jet lag is a general feeling of fatigue and disorientation often experienced by travellers by jet aircraft who cross several time zones in relatively few hours.
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8. They do not drink alcoholic beverages the day before their flight, during the flight,
or the day after the flight, They do not drink caffeinated beverages before, during, or just after a flight, They drink plenty of water to offset the effects of the dry air in the plane, They do
not eat too much on the plane, They exercise their legs from time to time while they are seated for their flight, They getup and walk around every hour or two, They do not take sleeping pills, They do not nap for
more than an hour at a time, They breakup long-haul trips across many time zones, if feasible, with a stay in a city about halfway to their destination, They wear
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9. Earth is divided into the Northern and Southern Hemispheres by the equator, and the Eastern and Western Hemispheres by the Greenwich Meridian.
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10. Step 1: Locate the place for which you already know the time and day on a timezone map. Step 2: Locate the place for which you wish to know the time and the day of the week on a timezone map. Step 3: Count the time zones between the two places Step 4: Calculate the time by either adding or subtracting an hour for each timezone, depending on whether you are moving east or west. Step 5: If you have crossed the International Date Line, identify the day.
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