NAME: _____________________________

You are a travel agent planning a travel itinerary for a two week round-trip, door-to-door vacation for a family of four to Honolulu, Hawaii. The family has two adults and two children; one is aged 15 years and the other aged 10 years. While in Honolulu you will plan an outing somewhere within the islands of the state of Hawaii that includes all four members of the family.  Your task is to create a travel itinerary that details the round-trip travel time for the family, one family outing, as well as the estimated cost of the vacation including food and gas (if a rental car is used).

If the itinerary calls for a car rental, estimate one tank of regular gasoline per week when calculating the vacation cost.Include as estimated $150 per day for food and dining out during the vacation. Do Not apply special offers such as AAA or military discounts.

Outbound Travel Dates
DEPARTURE DATE:  August 4
ARRIVAL DATE:  August 8

Return Travel Dates
DEPARTURE DATE: August 14
ARRIVAL DATE: August 18

Travel Expenses
Complete this table with the costs of travel.

Car Rental	# days or Weeks	Cost per day or week	Gas Cost	Total Car Cost	
Mini-Van
	6	$540.22	$42	$582.22	

Rail Travel	Departs	Arrives	Travel Time	Cost	
 	Washington, DC
4:05 PM
04-Aug-07	Chicago, Il
9:25 AM
05-Aug-07	18h 20m	$1,677	
	Chicago, Il
2:00 PM
05-Aug-07	Emmeryville, CA
7:50 PM
07-Aug-07	55h 50m		
	Emmeryville, CA
8:05 PM
07-Aug-07	San Francisco, CA
8:50 PM
07-Aug-07	0h 45m		
		TOTAL Outbound TIME
	76h 45m		
	San Francisco, CA
6:05 AM
15-Aug-07	Santa Barbara, CA
1:45 PM
15-Aug-07	7h 40m		
	Santa Barbara, CA
1:59PM
15-Aug-07	Los Angeles, CA
4:55PM
15-Aug-07	2h 56m		
	Los Angeles, CA
6:45 pm
15-Aug-07	Chicago, IL
3:20 PM
17-Aug-07	42h 35m		
	Chicago, IL
7:05 PM
17-Aug-07	Washington, DC
2:00 PM
18-Aug-07	17h 55		
		Total Return Time	79h 55m		
		Total Train Time	156h 40m	6 days
12 hours
40 minutes	
Complete the rail travel chart.  Add extra rows if needed.

Complete the air travel chart.  Add extra rows if needed.

Air Travel	Departs	Arrives	Travel Time	Cost	
United	San Francisco, CA
9:00AM
08-Aug-07	Honolulu, HI
11:12 AM
08-Aug-07	5h 12m	$3203	
	Honolulu, HI
12:28 PM
14-Aug-07	San Francisco, CA
8:18 PM
14-Aug-07	4h 50m		
		Total Time	10h 2m		

Complete the sea travel char.  Add extra rows if needed.
Sea Travel	Departs	Arrives	Travel Time	Cost	
See Family Outing					

Miscellaneous Travel Time
Misc. Travel	Departs	Arrives	Travel Time	Cost	
Drive from home to Train Station			57m	$6	
Drive From Train Station to home			57m	$6	
Drive from airport to hotel			37m	$4	
Drive from hotel to airport			37m	$4	
		Totals Misc Travel Time	1h 54m	$12	

Hotel/ House	Arrive	Depart	Cost	
 Hawaii Prince Hotel	08-Aug-07	14-Aug-07	$3752.82	
Complete the Hotel chart.  Add extra rows if needed.

Family Outing
Name of Outing	Type	Cost	Duration	Date of Outing	
 Atlantis Submarine Tours	Underwater Exploration	Adults (13+) - $113.86
Child - $57.47	1h 45m	10-Aug-07	
	Total Cost	$399.05			

Vacation Totals

Expenses

Category	Cost	
Car Rental	$582.22	
Rail Cost	$1,677	
Air Cost	$3203	
Sea Cost	$399.05	
		
Food	$900	
Miscellaneous	$600	
Total Trip Cost	$7361.27

$1840.32 per person	

Travel Time
Record your total time traveling from your house to the hotel or rental house and from the rental house to your home. NOTE: The number of days of the vacation does not count in the round-trip travel time. Only count the actual time going from the family's home address to hotel or rental home in Honolulu and returning from the hotel or rental home to the family's home address. You can use your home address or friend's address as the point of origin.

Mode	Outbound Time	Return Time	Total	
Train	76h 45m	79h 55m	156h 40m	
Air	5h 12m	4h 50m	10h 2m	
Car	57m	57m	1h 54m	
Sea			1h 45m	
Misc	1h 34m	1h 34m	2h 8m	
		Total Travel Time	172h 29m

7 days
4 hours
29 minutes	

Travel Technologies Analysis
List the ways in which technologies provide the transportation to the vacation destination as well as how the technologies make the trip fun and exciting. Technologies to consider: manufacturing, construction, communication, health and safety, and agriculture.
NOTE: THIS IS ONLY A SAMPLE ANALYSIS AND NOT COMPREHENSIVE.  YOUR ANALYSIS SHOULD GO INTO GREATER DETAIL

Technology	Analysis	
Manufacturing	•	The vehicles in which the family rides
o	Car to get to the airport and hotel
o	Train to cross the country
o	Plane to fly to Honolulu
o	Submarine to view the underwater sites
•	The television in the hotel room.
•	The paper tickets for the submarine tour.	
Construction	•	Building the hotel, airport, train station, and car rental store
•	Building the roads, rails, and runways for travel	
Communication	•	PA system on the plane for announcements
•	Internet for booking  the vacation
•	Digital Camera to capture memories
•	Cell Phone for talking to friends about how great the trip is!	
Health	•	Motion sickness medicine
•	Sunscreen	
Safety	•	Seatbelts in cars and planes
•	Airbags in cars
•	Signal lights on the highway and railway	
Agriculture	•	Food for the trip
•	Vegetation as decoration at the resort hotel
•	Landscaping	

Scoring Rubric
Scale

Criteria	1	2	3	4	Self Score	Teacher Score	
Itinerary Tables
 (10 pts.)	The required tables are incomplete or missing.	Most but not all required sections of all tables are completed as directed.	All required sections of all tables are completed as directed.	All required sections of all tables are completed as directed and include detailed records of time and costs in each table. 			
Technology Analysis
(30 pts.)	The analysis lists few or no ways each technology contributed to the transportation to the vacation destination and how it made the trip more fun and exciting.	The analysis lists some ways each technology contributed to the transportation to the vacation destination and how it made the trip more fun and exciting but the listing is not more than the obvious examples in the sample itinerary provided.	The analysis lists a moderate number of ways each technology contributed to the transportation to the vacation destination and how it made the trip more fun and exciting.	The analysis contains a comprehensive list of ways each technology contributed to the transportation to the vacation destination and how it made the trip more fun and exciting.			
				Overall Score