Tourists and Tourism

BUILDING-UP YOUR VOCABULARY

Unit 3. The things I like and Dislike. My Travelling.

Not to go anywhere, but to go … travel

for travel’s sake. The great affair is to move.

Robert Louis Stevenson

Recommended grammar:

Sequence of Tenses. Conditionals.

3.1. Scan the passage below and say why traveling and tourism are so important in modern life. What are the major types of tourism?

Travel and tourism are addictive and their impact on our lives is truly monumental. Despite the fact that mass tourism is viewed as a simple but harmless way of helping people see the world and broaden their horizons, our desire to maximize every traveling opportunity that presents itself has had a wholly unforeseen impact on our attitudes towards life in general and on the world we live in. In no way could this impact have been accurately predicted, even 30 years ago.

No matter how uninspiring our miserable destination may be, or how d isillusioned we are by the transport systems; no matter what trouble our payment of debts due to overambitious holiday spending may lead us into, there is nothing amateur about our desire to make our fantasies realities.

Tourists travel to places away from home and stay there for a short time – a week or two, perhaps. They travel because they want to do business, or to visit friends or family, or to have a holiday. All three kinds of travel are part of tourism. But in the modern world, holidays are the most important kind of tourism.

The tourist industry gives tourists everything that they want and need during their visits: hotels, restaurants, airports, theatres, etc. When tourists visit places in their own country, this is called domestic tourism. When they visit other countries, this is international tourism.

Tourism is a very important business for many countries, and it’s getting bigger all the time. Millions of people like hoteliers and property owners depend on the tourist industry for their livelihood, as well as those who work in this industry. A decrease in the popularity of tourism would be nothing short of disaster.

3.2. a) Read the following texts and match them to the titles below. b) Answer the questions after the texts. c) Discuss the titles and the final sentence of each text with a partner.

Title 1. Travel Doesn’t Broaden the Mind

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