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Sports tourism




Comprehension questions

LEISURE TOURISM

TEXTS

Such tours must be very expensive!

Just imagine travelling to the Seychelles!

It must be fantastic!

wonderful

enjoyable

exciting

excellent

marvellous

fabulous

11. And what does bird-watching involve?

hiking

hitch-hiking

motor-racing

painting

cookery

gambling

Ecuado

Bavaria

France

the desert

the North Pole

an uninhabited island

very costly

very inexpensive

very cheap

exciting

fantastic

fabulous

14. Who told you that a hobby is a cheap thing?

travelling

a tour

a journey

a trip

a voyage

a cruise

15. The more you are telling me about tourism, the more ignorant I am feeling.

travel backward

social-interest tourism amazed

adventure tourism excited

third-age tourism interested

bird-watching fascinated

horse-riding impressed

16. If you do some thinking, you will guess what these types of tourism are about.

figure out

understand

realize

imagine

fancy

get the idea

17. I can hardly imagine what the fourth-age tourism is.

fancy

figure out

guess

suppose

assume

presume


Leisure tourism is also called pleasure tourism or holiday tourism. It is a type of tourism when a person goes on holiday and does not travel on business. Thus, the purpose of tourism in this case is recreation.

Leisure travellers look for sun, sea and sand. They want to go sunbathing, swimming and diving. So this kind of travellers go to sea resorts or holiday camps and stay at resort hotels.

Leisure travellers enjoy organized entertainment and sport. In aresort hotel there are always swimming-pools, fitting-centres, tenniscourts, discos. A resort hotel offers its customers contests, concerts, shows, animation programmes for children. Usually it offers tours and visits to different attractions: local sights or amusement or theme parks.

Holiday-makers normally travel with their families and children. There are other ways to travel for pleasure: cruising and coaching, motoring and hiking.

More and more working people will have longer paid holidays and long weekends in future. More and more people will retire at an earlier age. It means that more and more people will travel for leisure in future.

1. How is leisure tourism called?

2. What type of travel is leisure tourism?

3. What do leisure travellers look for?

4. Where do leisure travellers go on holiday?

5. What do leisure travellers enjoy?

6. What does a resort hotel offer?

7. What are other ways to travel for pleasure?

8. Why will more and more people travel for pleasure in future?

Sports tourism is a type of active holiday. The purpose of a sporting tour is to exercise and keep physically fit. At the same time travellers enjoy natural surroundings, fresh air and clean water.

Travellers combine action and relaxation during a sporting holiday.

Tourist companies offer hiking, cycling, boating, rafting and other kinds of sporting tour.

Very often sporting tours require preparation and special training. First the tour instructors will plan the itinerary. Then they will train tourists how to use sporting equipment. They will explain the details of the route. They will define means of transportation, provision of meals and overnight accommodation.

During some tours travellers carry their luggage and sporting equipment themselves. During some other tours special carriers transfer the luggage for them. It depends on the difficulty of the tour, on the tourist destination and the local practice.

Within sports tourism there is water tourism, mountain tourism and mountaineering, skiing. Sports tourism is popular all year round.




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