Overview

The group presentation will allow students to demonstrate their understanding of entrepreneurship, its importance to the tourism sector, and the development of entrepreneurial attributes and competencies. 

Using the PowerPoint platform, students are to prepare for a 10-minutes presentation and 10-minutes for queries and questions. 

A PowerPoint presentation will be used as evidence to demonstrate your knowledge and understanding of entrepreneurship, entrepreneurial theories and concepts, and various entrepreneurial activities. Please, demonstrate your understanding of these topics by using practical examples from the tourism industry. Your PowerPoint presentation slides should be professionally prepared and presented. 

The presentation must be submitted in Microsoft word format. The entire PowerPoint file must be converted by exporting to a Word document. The speaker notes (4000 words) must be included. Please refer to the assignment guide for a step-by-step conversion guide. 

Both the slides and speaker notes should include appropriate in-text citations and references according to CCCU Harvard referencing.  

The assignment tasks involve preparing and delivering a group presentation that demonstrates an understanding of entrepreneurship in tourism and organisational behaviour, using the case study of TripAdvisor as a central example.

Presentation Preparation and Delivery

• Research and Content Development: Collaborate to gather and analyse information from credible sources, ensuring the presentation is well-researched and evidence-based.
• Visual Aids: Create engaging and informative visual aids, such as slides, charts, and graphs, to enhance the presentation and facilitate audience understanding.
• Rehearsals: Conduct multiple rehearsals to ensure smooth delivery, timing, and coordination among group members.
• Q&A Session: Prepare for potential questions from the audience and develop well-informed responses to demonstrate a deep understanding of the topic.

Expected Deliverables

• PowerPoint Presentation: A comprehensive and visually appealing slide deck summarizing the key points and arguments, with well-structured speaker notes.
• Presentation Script: A detailed script outlining each group member's speaking parts, ensuring a cohesive and well-coordinated presentation.
• References: A list of all sources cited in the presentation, formatted according to academic standards.

By completing these tasks, the group will effectively demonstrate their understanding of entrepreneurship in tourism and organisational behaviour, highlighting the practical applications of theoretical concepts through the TripAdvisor case study.

Your presentation notes must: 

1. Give the full Harvard reference on reference page for each item used, along with the correct Harvard in-text citation within the assignment.
2. Include both direct and indirect citations from a wide variety of sources, with a minimum of 15 references.
3. Utilise relevant core texts and research items from within the module.
4. Your cover page should be the first page of your assignment. Include your student ID number, module name, tutor name, and academic year/group bubble.

Referencing and research requirements: 

Please reference your work according to the Canterbury Harvard style guidance, available on Moodle. This assignment requires a minimum of 15 different sources.  

Oral presentations:

You will have 10 minutes to present your work orally, followed by 10 minutes for Q&A.

Essential Resources (available on shelves and electronically in GBS library)

Core:

• Walmsley, A. (2019) Entrepreneurship in Tourism. London: Routledge.

Recommended:

• Burns, P. (2022) Entrepreneurship and Small Business: Start-up, Growth, and Maturity. Bloomsbury Publishing.
• Blank, S. and Dorf, B. (2020) The Startup Owner's Manual: The Step-By-Step Guide for Building a Great Company. London: Wiley.
• Kimball, D.C. and Lussier, R.N. (2020) Entrepreneurship skills for new ventures. Routledge.

Journal:

• Mitchelmore, S. and Rowley, J. (2010) Entrepreneurial competencies: a literature review and development agenda. International journal of entrepreneurial behaviour & Research, 16(2), pp.92-111.
•  Morrison, J., Rimmington, M. and Williams, C. (2016) Entrepreneurship in the hospitality, tourism, and leisure industries. 1st edition. Routledge. 
• Solvoll, S., Alsos, G.A. and Bulanova, O. (2015) Tourism entrepreneurship–review and future directions. Scandinavian Journal of Hospitality and Tourism, 15(1), pp.120-137.
• Academy of Management Annals
• Leadership Quarterly
• Journal of Business Venturing
• Entrepreneurship Theory and Practice. 

This assignment should be submitted electronically via Moodle (module tutors will discuss this process with you during class time).

• You must submit your work in Word document format.  You should convert your PowerPoint slides to the Word Document format and your speaker notes clearly displayed under each presentation slide.  
• All members must each submit the final version of the group work to Moodle before the deadline.  Submission of only a Cover Page is NOT allowed.  
• You can submit your work as many times as you like before the submission date. If you do submit your work more than once, your earlier submission will be replaced by the most recent version.  
• Please ensure that you have submitted your work in the correct link on the assessment tab. Also note that students may be penalised for submitting their assessments in the wrong link.  
• Once you have submitted your work, you will receive a digital receipt as proof of submission, which will be sent to your forwarded e-mail address (provided you have set this up). Please keep this receipt for future reference, along with the original electronic copy of your assignment.  
• You are reminded of the University’s regulations on academic misconduct, which can be viewed on the University website: Academic Misconduct Policy. In submitting your assignment, you are acknowledging that you have read and understood these regulations. 
• The Assessment Front Sheet (see the Template in Moodle) should be inserted as the first page for all assessments submitted by a student to Global Banking School (GBS). GBS reserves the right to not mark any assessment that is not submitted with this sheet attached and that does not comply with the requirements below. 
• Failure to present the speaker notes means that the ‘Communication’ criteria in the rubric will be unable to be marked and will result in a 'zero’ score. 
• Failure to attend the oral presentation will result in the criteria for 'oral presentation' rubric to be unmarked and will lead to having 'zero' score. 
• It is the complete and sole responsibility of the student to upload their assessment to Turnitin for Marking prior to the specified deadline.   Students should not request lecturers to submit assessments on their behalf as they are unable to do so. 
• Assessment Filename - All uploads need to be submitted using the naming convention below: 

• To avoid uploading issues, students should aim to upload their assessment several hours prior to the deadline to avoid Turnitin issues around the deadline time or accidentally submitting to the wrong submission link. It is recommended to check that the assessment that has been uploaded is able to be read after you have uploaded it and if not to re-upload it.  Contact the SST on your campus if you have any issues. 
• Any assessment submitted after the specified deadline will incur a late penalty as specified in CCCU Academic regulations unless prior approval has been granted for Exceptional Circumstances.

Your work will be assessed on the extent to which it demonstrates your achievement of the stated learning outcomes for this assignment (see above) and against other key criteria, as defined in the University’s institutional grading descriptors. If it is appropriate to the format of your assignment and subject area, a proportion of your marks will also depend on your use of academic referencing conventions. 

If you fail this assessment, you will have to resubmit an Individual assignment. 

This assignment will be marked according to the grading descriptors for Level 5. 

All submission & resubmission dates and time are as stated at the beginning of this Assignment brief. 

You should submit your Assignment for all deadlines earlier than 2:00pm on the date stated.  

Late submissions can be accepted for Summative Submissions only up to a maximum of 2 working days after the submission deadline. This does not apply to resubmission deadlines. A 10 mark deduction will be made by CCCU for all late submissions.

Work submitted more than two working days after the deadline will not be accepted and will be recorded as a non-submission.

Assignments submitted to the Resubmissions deadlines will be capped at 40 by CCCU.

If you are affected by events which are unexpected, outside your control and short-term in nature (i.e. lasting one to two weeks), under the exceptional circumstances procedure you may be eligible for:

• A seven day extension to your coursework (via self-certification request).
• A 14 day extension to your coursework (via evidence-based request).
• To defer your exam or time-constrained assessment if you have not yet submitted/attempted it (via self-certification or evidence-based request).
• To re-take an exam/time-constrained assessment, if you feel your performance on your first attempt was negatively impacted (via impaired performance request).

Please note students are only eligible to have a maximum of 2 self-certification requests per academic year.

You can make a self-certification request up to 14 calendar days before your deadline:

• for coursework it must be no later than 2pm on the deadline date
• for exams and time-constrained assessments, the request must be submitted no later than the start time of the assessment.

The Assignment will be graded zero. Written feedback will be ‘This assignment has been identified as potential Academic Misconduct/Breach of Academic Integrity. You will be invited to a meeting to discuss’.

You will be invited to a meeting with an academic Misconduct reviewer. When you attend the meeting if Academic Misconduct or the breach of Academic Integrity is upheld you will be asked to rewrite the section of the assignment it applies to and re-submit the assignment.  

Do not upload any assignments to the AMC submission links before the meeting otherwise it will be removed. 

Failure to attend the meeting means the assignment will remain graded at zero and you will be unable to pass the module until you have attended the meeting.

A 10-mark deduction applied to the overall grade that is manually entered by the Lecturer. This deduction is capped at 40%, which means an assignment cannot get less than 40% if a deduction has to be made.

For example, if the mark for the assignment was 60. The lecturer would deduct 10 marks and the mark will be 50.  Written feedback will also state ‘This assignment is 10% over the wordcount and 10 marks have been deducted’.

This assignment will be graded a Fail.

The lecturer will grade as 1 and the written feedback will state ‘This is a pdf submission and is not allowed. All submissions should be in Microsoft Word format’.

This assignment will be graded a Fail.  

The lecturer will grade as 1 and the written feedback will state ‘This submission was not completed in the designated group’.

Please note: Where a student has asked the lecturer to move from their original group and the lecturer has agreed this does not apply.

This assignment will be graded a Fail.

The lecturer will grade as 1 and the written feedback will state ‘There was no Oral presentation in class and the submission was not converted to Microsoft Word’.

This assignment will be graded a Fail.

The lecturer will grade as 1 and the written feedback will state ‘There are no slides present in the assignment submission’.

If the assignment is group work and the resubmission is not changed to individual work. 

If a group assignment is failed then the resubmitted work must be changed by a minimum of 25% to make it an individual piece of work. 

This means if a Group Presentation is 12 slides a minimum of 3 must be different to the group submission. If the assignment is a Group Poster with 6 text boxes then a minimum of 2 of them must be different to the Group Poster.

This assignment will be graded a Fail.

The lecturer will grade as 1 and the written feedback will state ‘This resubmission should be individual and a minimum of 25% of the assignment has not changed’.

This assignment will be graded 0 and the written feedback should state ‘This assignment is unreadable by Turnitin and cannot be checked for Academic Misconduct. It has been referred for an AMC meeting’.

The assignment will then be referred for Academic Misconduct investigation. 

The reference rubric criteria is not moved and that criteria will remain at zero.

Written feedback should state ’The reference criteria has been graded Zero as no citations have been used.  Please include citations in your assignment to support the academic points being made’.

Foundation & Level 4 - The reference rubric criteria is not moved and that criteria will remain at zero. The written feedback will state ‘Please ensure that you use citations and references to support your assignment submission’.

At Level 5 and Level 6 this would be graded as a Fail. The lecturer will grade as 1 and written feedback will also show ‘This assignment has no citations and no reference list’.

This will be referred for Academic Misconduct.

This assignment will be graded 0 and the written feedback should state ‘This assignment contains false references and has been referred for Academic Misconduct. You will be invited to attend an Academic Misconduct meeting’.

This assignment will be graded a Fail.

The lecturer will grade as 1 and written feedback should state 'This assignment was submitted after the deadline. Please resubmit at the next resubmission opportunity.'