Vocabulary

1. to associate with - ассоциировать, связывать

2. supposedly - по общему мнению, предположительно

3. disorder - нарушение, расстройство ( какой-л. функции организма )

4. recreation - отдых; восстановление здоровья, душевных и физических сил; выздоровление

5. premise - помещение, дом

6. lodging - жилище, жилье

7. amenities - прелести, красоты

8. self-contained - изолированный, отдельный

9. prevalent - распространенный, общепринятый

10. ample - богатый, просторный

Text work

1. Give Russian equivalents:

1 treating diseases from gout to liver disorders

2 to take 'the waters'

3 to combine a hotel and a variety of recreations

4 operated by a single company

5 to attempt to provide

6 a prominent example of a modern, self-contained commercial resort

7 to exist throughout the world

8 a scenic or historic site

9 a gaming facility

10 to compete with

2. Find synonyms to the following words:

1 to treat diseases

2 to attend

3 recreation

4 to operate

5 vacationer

6 facility

7 to relate to

8 to vary

9 tourist attraction

10 to provide

3. Answer the questions:

1 How can you define a spa?

2 Can you imagine what services are provided there?

3 What is the difference between a hotel and a resort?

4 Give examples of resort towns in Russia.

5 What resort would you like to visit and why?

4. Look through the pictures and scan the given information. Choose the type of resort you would advise your friend to visit. Explain your choice.

A destination resort is a resort that contains, in and of itself, the necessary guest attraction capabilities—that is to say that a destination resort does not need to be near a destination (town, historic site, theme park, or other) to attract its public. Consequently, another characteristic of a destination resort is that is offers food, drink, lodging, sports, entertainment, and shopping within the facility so that guests have no need to leave the facility throughout their stay. Commonly these facilities are of higher quality than would be expected if one were to stay at a hotel or eat in a town's restaurants. Some examples are Atlantis in the Bahamas, Costa do Sauípe in the Northeastern Brazil, Laguna Phuket in Thailand and Sun City near Johannesburg in South Africa.

The "Paradise" resort in Catskills.

An all-inclusive resort is a resort that, besides providing all of the common amenities of a resort, charges a fixed price that includes most or all items. At a minimum, most inclusive resorts include lodging, unlimited food, drink, sports activities, and entertainment for the fixed price. In recent years, the number of resorts offering "all-inclusive" amenities has decreased dramatically; in 1961, over half offered such plans and in 2007, less than ten percent do so.

A famous resort of the ancient world (historical resort) was Baiae, Italy, popular over 2,000 years ago. Capri, an island near Naples, Italy, has attracted visitors since Roman times. Another famous historical resort was Monte Ne, Arkansas, which was active in the early 20th century. At its peak more than 10,000 people a year visited its hotels. It was disenfranchised in the 1930s and flooded in the 1960s and all that remains are ruins.

A destination spa is a short term residential/lodging facility with the primary purpose of guiding individual spa-goers to develop healthy habits. Historically over a seven-day stay,such facilities typically provide a comprehensive program that includes spa services, physical fitness activities, wellness education, healthful cuisine and special interest programming.

Some destination spas offer an all-inclusive program that includes facilitated fitness classes, healthy cuisine, educational classes and seminars as well as similar services to a beauty salon or a day spa. Guests reside and participate in the program at a destination spa instead of just visiting for a treatment or pure vacation. Some destination spas are in exotic locations or in spa towns.

Text 3. Leisure tourism

Scan the text and find the main advantages of different kinds of rest.

Leisure travel was associated with the industrialisation of United Kingdom – the first European country to promote leisure time to the increasing industrial population. Initially, this applied to the owners of the machinery of production, the economic oligarchy, the factory owners, and the traders. These comprised the new middle class. Cox & Kings were the first official travel company to be formed in 1758. Later, the working class could take advantage of leisure time.

The British origin of this new industry is reflected in many place names. At Nice, one of the first and best-established holiday resorts on the French Riviera, the long esplanade along the seafront is known to this day as the Promenade des Anglais; in many other historic resorts in continental Europe, old well-established palace hotels have names like the Hotel Bristol, the Hotel Carlton or the Hotel Majestic - reflecting the dominance of English customers.

A seaside resort is a resort located on the coast. Where a beach is the primary focus for tourists, it may be called a beach resort. The coast has always been a recreational environment, although until the mid-nineteenth century, such recreation was a luxury only for the wealthy. Even in Roman times, the town of Baiae, by the Tyrrhenian Sea in Italy, was a resort for those who were sufficiently prosperous. During the early nineteenth century, the Prince Regent popularised Brighton, on the south coast of England, as a fashionable alternative to the wealthy spa towns such as Bath. Later, Queen Victoria's long-standing patronage of the Isle of Wight and Broadstairs in Kent ensured the seaside residence was a highly fashionable possession for those wealthy enough to afford more than one home. Now a days, many beach resorts are available at Goa Kerala and West Bengal in India such as Club Mahindra, Taj, The Sana Beach etc.

It was in the mid-nineteenth century that it became popular for people from less privileged classes to take holidays at seaside resorts. Improvements in transportation brought about by the industrial revolution enabled people to take holidays away from home, and led to the growth of coastal towns as seaside resorts. This is perhaps most strongly evidenced in England and Wales, where no point is more than 180 km from the coast.

A lot of seaside towns have turned to other entertainment industries and a lot of which have a good deal of nightlife, the cinemas and theatres often remain and a lot of seaside towns become host to a number of pubs, bars, restaurants and nightclubs. Most of their entertainment facilities cater for more local people and the beaches still remain popular during the summer months. Although international tourism turned people away from the British seaside towns, it also brought in a lot of foreign travel and many seaside towns are the host of foreign language schools and many of the students return for holidays and sometimes to settle. As a result a lot of seaside towns are culturally diverse.

The seafront of Kemer, a seaside resort in Llandudno Pier

Antalya, Turkey