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12. Read the text in detail and do the tasks given below.

12.1. Choose the correct variant of answer to the given questions (only one variant is possible).

1. What do tour packages include?

a) transportation

b) accommodation

c) catering

d) transfers

e) all of the variants given

2. What statement about the travel agent doesn’t correspond to reality?

a) The travel agent is a wholesaler

b) The travel agent is a retailer

c) The travel agent gets a commission from the tour operator

d) both “a” and “c”

e) both “b” and “c”

3. What does the tourism manager do?

a) hires employees

b) runs some tourist business

c) works directly with the public

d) both “a” and “c”

e) both “a” and “b”

4. What are the features of the tour guide?

a) knows a lot on history, geography, art and culture

b) decides on prices and discounts

c) plans tourist business

d) knows all the sights in a travel destination

e) both “a” and “d”

5. What statement characterizes the chief animator?

a) is also called the social director

b) communicates with guests a lot

c) accompanies tourists during a local tour or during the whole journey

d) both “a” and “b”

e) “a”, “b” and “c”

12.2. Complete the chart with the descriptions of jobs connected with tourist industry.

OCCUPATION

DESCRIPTION

1 The tour operator

2 The travel agent

3 The tourism manager

4 The tour guide

5 The animator

6 The chief animator

12.3. Decide whether each of the given statements is true or false. Correct false statements.

1. In order to develop a tour package the tour operator works with travel agencies.

2. Sometimes the tour operator sells tour packages direct to the public.

3. Tour operators are the main producers in the tourist industry.

4. The travel agent like the shop-assistant sells goods to customers.

5. The travel agent sells tour packages wholesale to consumers.

6. Travel agents are the main sellers in the tourist industry.

7. The tourism manager is also called the tour conductor.

12.4. Give extended answers to the questions using the information from the text and your own experience.

1. What is the difference between a wholesaler and a retailer?

2. To your mind, which of the occupations mentioned in the text is the most demanding?

3. What traits of character should a person have if he or she wants to work as a tour operator/a travel agent/a tourism manager/a tour guide/an animator?

13. Watch the video “Travel and Tourism  Opening Doors for Your Future” and answer the questions given below. Make sure that you understand the words in italics.

pilgrimage trade wants and needs environmental protection craft poverty

1. What are the main “historical” reasons for travelling?

2. How many people travel abroad these days?

3. How many people are employed in tourism nowadays?

4. What other businesses and professions depend on tourism industry?

5. What are the main wants and needs of modern travelers?

6. What are the benefits that tourism gives to local communities?

7. How are tourism industry and environmental protection interconnected?

8. Why do they call tourism a “World of Opportunities”?

9. What is required of a person who wants to take up a career in tourism?