Unit 6 Jtineiaiiei
Literally，an itinerary is a plan or list of the places people will visit on a journey.A journey can be started purely for the appreciation of natural sceneries or sites of historical interest，as well as for shopping in the downtown areas of the cities where these natural sceneries or places of historical interest are located.It can also be arranged for a business trip to several places attending different sessions of meetings based on a given subject.Therefore，the plan can be made either by the person who is engaged in the journey or by a travel agency or an organization which promotes the journey.
Itineraries drawn for sight seeing tell people the whole range of their activities on their journey.They help organize the time and places for people to start for their destinations as well as the time and places where people gather to leave for home，the means for people to travel，the hotels for people to stay over nights，the restaurants for people to have dinners at，and the sites for people to enjoy and buy souvenirs.They sometimes offer different routes to meet the preference of different travelers.Itineraries of this kind drawn by travel agencies are often used to advertise travel services.They are made to arrange different activities along different travel routes for tourists who prefer group traveling to individual trips.Drawn by individuals for their own use，itineraries can help individual travelers to sort out what will happen on their way to predestined destinations，hence greatly facilitating their journeys.(https://www.daowen.com)
If it is an itinerary about a business or academic conference held in sessions in a certain place or sometimes more than one place，it normally informs people of registration time and place，hotels for staying conventioneers，places for opening and concluding ceremony，places for different sessions of the meeting，restaurants for meals，recreational sites near the meeting sites，prospecting topics for next conference，as well as time and plan for next conference，time and places where the conventioneers are to take souvenir pictures，time and place for departure，etc.Sometimes，the host of the conference will organize tours around the meeting sites for conventioneers，who are to decide to go or not.When this happens，the itinerary will also include information of this kind.Itineraries of conference journey are frequently used to arrange large-scale meetings with conventioneers from various places.They are especially useful in organizing the different sessions of the meeting.By resorting to conference itineraries，conventioneers are able to locate the meeting time and place.
A sight-seeing journey or a conference-attending journey usually lasts a couple of days.Of course，there will be journeys which last only one day.There will also be journeys that last weeks or even at least a whole month.However long a journey may cover，itineraries are just plans about what people will do at given time in given places over a period of time.