1. Find the words in the text with the following meanings:
changed (paragraph1)
a movement which believes that the use of alcohol is dangerous and normally wrong (paragraph 1)
originated (paragraph 1)
financial success (paragraph 2)
departure (paragraph 3)
designed to appeal to (paragraph 3)
period of history (paragraph 4)
arrival (paragraph 4)
something which is strange and unusual because it comes from far away (paragraph 4)
10) a sum of money (today expressed as 12½ pence, but obviously worth more in real terms a century ago) (paragraph 5)
2. Answer the questions.
1. How did railway building contribute to the growth of tourism?
Which paragraph gives reasons for the development of foreign travel? What are the reasons given?
“The 1990s family, however, is far more likely to take a two-week package tour to the Mediterranean…” (paragraph 5). What nationality is the typical family referred to here? How do you know?
3. Sum up what you’ve learned from the text about the origins of mass tourism.
Speaking
1. Work in groups of four. Within your group you will work in two teams of two people, Team A and Team B. You are going to give short talks on tourism development in two different countries.
Team A look at the information on Ireland. Read the Ireland fact file below. Discuss tourism in Ireland. Decide what you will tell Team B. Make notes and plan your talk. When you are ready, give your talk.
Ireland fact file
|
History |
Recent development |
The present situation |
|
beginnings of tourism industry unknown
1845: horse-drawn coach service operating round Ireland (4,000 miles/day)
C
1895:1st package tour
1920: 1st official tourism office
1
Post 1945: plentiful food supply in Ireland |
real expansion over last 30 years
government help
promotion of special interest holidays, e.g. golfing, hiking, fishing
special purpose English language holidays |
b
employs 91,000
appeals to younger generation & independent travellers
appeals to Irish Americans in search of roots
special attraction: the cultural holiday (Dublin, Blarney, Kilkenny)
v
av. stay: holiday 11.1 days VFR 10.4 days |
19:allvisitors
Britain
America 
941-1945:
food scarcity in the UK Us soldiers visit Ireland to eat
better
British visitors
isitors:
55% Britain
28%
Europe
Team B look at the information on Egypt. Read the fact file. Discuss tourism in Egypt. Decide what you tell Team A. Make notes and plan your talk. When you are ready, give your talk.
Egypt fact file
|
History |
Recent development |
The present situation |
|
tourist attraction since “the dawn of time”
1 new interest in Egyptian culture
1869: 1st Thomas Cook tour
Nov. 1869: opening of Suez Canal; 2nd Cook tour 1950: tour operators and hoteliers in place |
1
1906: > 1m tourist / yr.
G
1992-94: adverse publicity |
v 5
av. stay: 8½ - 9½ days
attractions: classical tour (Pyramids, Luxor and Aswan) Nile cruises package charters (Hurghada on the Red Sea)
|
798:
Napoleon’s Egyptian campaign
radual
increase in number of carriers and hotels 3.6 m arrivals in
1992
fall in arrivals
isitors:
43% Arab world
7%
Europe & North America