- •Модуль 2 the tourist industry Цели:
- •Entry Test
- •Учебный элемент 4 (уэ-4) The Tourist Industry
- •I. Improve your wordpower.
- •2. Mind the pronunciation:
- •3. What are the opposites?
- •4. Find the synonyms in the right column to the words given in the left column:
- •5. Match these words with the definitions below:
- •II. Reading Comprehension
- •Tourism
- •Определенный и нулевой артикли с географическими названиями и именами собственными The definite and the zero articles with geographical and proper names
- •2. Insert the definite article where necessary
- •VI. Written task
- •1. Read the text, translate it; translate extracts in italics into Russian using a dictionary in writing. Basic definitions in tourism
- •2. Answer the following questions in writing
- •3. Complete the sentences
- •VII. Intensive Reading Task
- •2. Read the text. The tourist industry
- •3. Find in the text answers to these questions:
- •4. Say what you've learned from the text about:
- •VIII*. Advanced learning
- •Учебный элемент 5 (уэ-5) Ecotourism (Environmental tourism)
- •I. Improve your wordpower.
- •1. Study your active vocabulary:
- •2. Mind the pronunciation:
- •3. What are the opposites?
- •5. Match these words with the definitions below:
- •II. Reading Comprehension
- •1. Read and translate the following text. Consult a dictionary if necessary. Ecotourism
- •III. Comprehension and Word Study
- •1. Translate into Russian
- •2. Translate into English
- •4. Complete the following statements:
- •IV. Speaking practice
- •2. Be ready to speak about ecotourism and its main principles
- •V. Grammar revision The definite article with geographic names (определенный артикль с географическими названиями)
- •1. Insert articles where necessary (explain your choice)
- •VI. Written task
- •1. Read the text, translate it; translate extracts in italics into Russian using a dictionary in writing
- •VII. Intensive reading task
- •1. Study the vocabulary list to the text
- •2. Read the text paying attention to how tourists contribute to the protection of the environment in the Alps the environmental tourist How to be an eco-friendly tourist in the Alps
- •2. Find in the text answers to these questions:
- •3. Say what you've learned from the text about:
- •4. Study the information chart and discuss the environmental issues concerning the Alps' ecosystem.
- •VIII*. Advanced learning
- •1. Study the following idioms
- •Useful phrases
- •Учебный элемент 6 (уэ-6) Regulation, research and development in tourism
- •I. Improve your wordpower.
- •1. Study your active vocabulary:
- •2. Mind the pronunciation.
- •3. Read and translate the words and their derivatives.
- •4. Match the synonyms.
- •5. Pick out the English equivalents from list a to the following Russian expressions in list b.
- •6. Make up word-combinations and translate them.
- •7. Study these words and their definitions.
- •8*. Make up topic-related sentences using the following phrasal verbs.
- •II. Reading Comprehension
- •1. Read and translate the following text. Consult a dictionary if necessary. Regulation, research and development in tourism
- •5. Join the halves.
- •6. Complete the following sentences.
- •The zero article with geographical names
- •1. Insert articles where necessary (explain your choice).
- •VI. Written task
- •1. Read the text, translate it into Russian using a dictionary. Overseas markets (bta)
- •VII. Intensive reading task
- •1. Study the vocabulary list to the text
- •2. Read an interview with Signor Pacini of the Sicilian Tourist Board who is talking about tourism in Sicily and how the regional government is trying to improve the industry there.
- •3. Read the interview again and answer the questions:
- •VIII*. Advanced learning
VI. Written task
1. Read the text, translate it; translate extracts in italics into Russian using a dictionary in writing. Basic definitions in tourism
The World Tourism Organization distinguishes between three basic forms of tourism:
– domestic tourism, involving residents of the given country travelling only within the country;
– inbound tourism, involving non-residents travelling in another country;
– outbound tourism, involving residents travelling in another country. International tourism consists of inbound and outbound tourism. Basic definitions of tourism were established at the United Nations (Conference on Tourism and International Travel, Rome 1963) and by the United Nations Commission on Statistics (April 1968).
These definitions were revised and updated at the World Tourism Organization (WTO) conference in Ottawa in June 1991 and certain recommendations were formulated. Most countries have adopted these definitions.
In fact, travelers can be categorized in four ways:
– Domestic visitors;
– International visitors;
– International tourists;
– Excursionists.
For statistical purposes, the term "domestic visitor" describes any person residing in a country, who travels to a place within the country outside his/her usual environment for a period not exceeding 12 months and whose main purpose of visit is other than an activity for which he/she is paid within the place visited.
The term "international visitor" describes any person visiting a country other than that in which he or she has usual place of residence. The length of stay must not exceed 12 months.
Certain types of travelers are excluded from the category of "tourist" for reasons other than that of residency. These are:
– people travelling for political reasons: refugees;
– people travelling for political/professional reasons: migrants, members of the armed forces, diplomats, embassy staff;
– people travelling for professional reasons: nomads, border workers, seasonal workers, couriers;
– people sent abroad by their companies or government;
– transit passengers and permanent immigrants.
People who travel to work in a foreign country and are paid by this country have different motives for travelling than other visitors to the country. The WTO has devised a system of classifying international visitors, which separates visitors that must be included in international tourism statistics from those that must not.
A visitor whose length of stay in a country reaches or exceeds 24 hours, thus spending at least one night in the visited country, is classified as an international tourist. If classified as same-day visitors, travelers can stay in the country less than 24 hours.
The excursionist is a foreign visitor whose stay does not exceed 24 hours.
The economic impact of the international excursionist is very important to small isolated countries, which receive cruise-ship passengers.
When classified as same-day visitors, travelers spend the night on ship. The excursionist therefore does not spend the night in the country he is visiting.
It is difficult, however, to determine the tourism definition of a short trip. Generally, a journey is a trip when a minimum distance has been covered or when there has been a change of administrative district.