Incentive tourism

Comprehension questions

BUSINESS TOURISM

Comprehension questions

1. What type of holiday is sporting tour?

2. What is the purpose of a sporting tour?

3. What do travellers enjoy during a sporting tour?

4. What kind of sporting tours do tourist companies offer?

5. How will instructors prepare travellers for sporting tours?

6. What will instructors plan before the tour?

7. Who carries the tourists' luggage during a sporting tour? What does it depend on?

8. What types of tourism are there within sports tourism?

Business tourism is a travel for business purposes.

Business travellers are businessmen and government officials. They travel on different missions. Theyoften travel to attend a convention. Convention tourism is a part of business tourism. It involves taking part in a conference or a seminar.

Business travellers often travel to attend an international exhibition or a trade fair.

There are tourist companies that provide business services. Those are fax, telex and telephone communications, secretarial services, answering service, business meeting arrangements. There are business facilities for business travellers at hotels, airports, on airplanes.

Business travel will develop faster than other types of tourism in future. There will be more business tourists and more tourist companies which will deal with business tourism. They will provide more services in future. They will collect information on markets and trade partners, provide economic data on monitors, arrange negotiations, offer pre-convention and post-convention tours.

1. What kind of travel is business tourism?

2. What kind of tourists are business travellers?

3. What do business tourists travel for?

4. What does convention tourism involve?

5. What business services do tourist companies provide?

6. Where are business facilities?

7. What kind of other business services will tourist companies provide in future?

8. What sort of tours will tourist companies offer to business travellers?

Incentive tourism means that a business company offers holiday tours to its employees and covers all travel expenses.

On the one hand, the company does it as a reward or a bonus to a person for his successful work.

On the other hand, the company does it as an incentive for the future. The company hopes that the employee will work even better in future and bring profit to the company.

Very often an employer sets a target for an employee: «You will earn a holiday in France for your family if you exceed your quota by 10per cent next year».

Incentive tourism emerged in the 1960s in the USA. Later on it spread in Europe. But only large progressive corporations offer tours to their employees.

In some countries there are specialist tourist companies which arrange incentive tours for business corporations. They take great responsibility because incentive tours go under the name of the business corporation. It means that good travel arrangements will improve its reputation. Bad travel arrangements will shake its reputation.

This type of tourism is still a very small part of international tourism. Most probably this type of tourism won't grow in future.

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