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An itinerary is a detailed plan for a journey. It outlines the places to visit, dates of travel, duration of stay in each place, interesting places to visit in each place, costs and modes of transport
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While the activities in the other options are all a part of your travel plans, without an itinerary your trip can be spoilt by any number of events that could have been taken care of before you left home. Thus, making an itinerary is the most important activity in your travel plans
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Reading a book on a plane journey is a casual activity and need not be a part of the itinerary
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Since your trip is only by car all of the information given in the 4 options is vital for a successful journey
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Your meal selection is not critical to your travel whereas the information given in the other options is
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An itinerarium was an Ancient Roman road map. The map listed villages and towns and other places giving distances between them. It is from this word that we get the word itinerary. Itineraria is the plural of itinerarium
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On a self-driving tour you need to conserve your time and energy for visiting places and hence you need to travel may be 50-75 miles in a day, which would take about one to one and half hours of journey time. Mileages in options 1 and 2 are too long and consume time and sap your energy. Option 4 is usually what you travel on a normal sight seeing day in a particular place
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When you are travelling out of town one of the most important activities is to decide on the destination and, once that decision has been made, you have to decide on the mode of transport and then the departure and return times have to be confirmed. The activities in the other options would all follow thereafter
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As a travel planner you need to have the skills mentioned in all three options in order to advise a client adequately
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When many places of interest are situated within a short driving distance it is advantageous to adopt the hub-and-spoke itinerary. For example, if there are three places - B, C and D - within a short distance from A, then it makes sense to stay in A and do daily trips to B, C and D
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