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1. Answer the questions.

  1. Why is tourism one of the fastest growing industries?

  2. What distinguishes a tourist from an excursionist?

  3. What are the most common reasons for travelling?

  4. What kinds of travelers are usually included in tourist statistics?

  5. Why is it difficult to distinguish between business travel from recreational travel?

  6. To what tourist services do accommodations and catering refer?

  7. What kinds of travellers are usually not included in tourist statistics?

  8. What is the marketing approach to recreational and business travelers?

  9. What has the development of tourism as a mass industry depended on?

  10. When were the words tourist and tourism first used?

  11. What are some of the conditions for tourism that have been produced by industrialization?

  12. What are the principal reasons for encouraging tourism in developing countries?

2. Read the statements, define whether they are true or false, speak on them.

  1. It is easy to define tourism and accurate statistics are easy to obtain.

  2. An excursionist is a person, who is away from his usual residence for more than 24 hours.

  3. Accommodations refer to places where a traveler can find food or drink; catering facilities refer to hotels or other places where a traveler can find rest or shelter.

  4. People who travel some place in order to take up a job there are included in the area of tourism.

  5. Students who travel to another region or country where they are enrolled in a regular school are also usually included in tourist statistics.

  6. The business groups make up a price elastic market; recreational travelers make up a price inelastic market.

  7. It is not difficult to separate pure recreational travel from business travel.

  8. Tourism as we know it today began with the building of the railroad in the 19th century.

  9. The first tour in the modern sense was put together by Thomas Cook in England in 1814.

  10. Tourist industry does not require a large number of workers in proportion to the people who are served.

  11. The tourist industry is a single entity.

Language focus

1. Look through the text and match the definitions given below with the words and phrases from the text.

  1. a trip offered by an organization to a. leakage

reward successful effort of an employee

  1. a place to which someone is going b. incentive trip

  2. smth which provides encouragement to do smth c. urbanization

  3. places at which travellers obtain a bed d. excursionist

while travelling

  1. income that can be spent for purposes other e. inducement

than such necessities as food, shelter, taxes

  1. the growth of cities f. destination

  2. a market that responds to the g. catering services

inducement of lower price

  1. a person who is away from his usual residence h. accommodation

for less than24 hours

  1. services where the public can obtain i. disposable income

food and drink

  1. the tourist money that leaves the destination j. labour intensive

area because of imports, profits for investors

  1. the number of times which money that originates l. price elastic market

with tourism is spent within the economy of

tourist destination area

  1. the industry with a high proportion of m. multiplier effect

workers to the number of people served