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1. Answer the questions.

1. Why is transportation vital aspect of the total tourist industry?

2. How did means of transportation develop?

  1. Why have railroads and ships lost much of their business?

  2. What makes car a very convenient means of transportation?

  3. What has become the principal mode of transportation for long-distance travel? Why?

  4. Why do ships play an important part in tourism?

  5. What is “cruise”?

  6. What is “car ferry”?

  7. What kinds of airline operation does the text describe?

  8. What is the difference between scheduled and nonscheduled airlines?

  9. What are the special airline fares called? What were they able to do by means of these fares?

  10. How did the nonscheduled airlines get their start?

  11. What is “an affinity group”?

  12. What are some of the ways in which the airlines are regulated?

  13. What are some of the problems that the airlines must overcome?

2. Sum up what you’ve learned from the text about:

  1. the history of transportation development;

  2. the most popular means of transportation today;

  3. the role of airlines for development of tourism;

  4. different kinds of airline operations;

  5. sea transportation in tourism;

  6. special air fares;

  7. government regulations of all transportation;

  8. the problems to be solved in future.

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

1. Transportation is a vital aspect in the tourist industry.

  1. Railroads spread across Europe, North America and many other parts of the world in the 18th century.

  2. Steamships were carrying passengers and freight on all the oceans of the world in the 19th century.

  3. The automobile has replaced the railroad for most local travels.

  4. The airplane has become the principal carrier in the 19th century.

  5. The cruise ship acts only as the means of transportation.

  6. A scheduled airline operates on routes and at times when there is a demand for this service.

  7. The seating capacity is the percentage of seats that have been sold on a flight.

  8. The scheduled airlines got a start largely as a result of governmental business.

  9. All transportation is subject to regulation by government.

  10. The airlines don’t have any problems they have to overcome.

Language focus

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

1. a service for renting automobiles for a. headquarters

a short period of time

2. a group of people with the same purposes b. cruise

or interests traveling to the same destination

3. the number of seats that have been sold on c. scheduled airline

an aircraft

4. a packaged tour that uses the charter aircraft d. inclusive tour

for transportation

5. the central office or place where people work e. nonscheduled airline

who control a large organization

6. a ship that carries automobiles and passengers f. seating capacity

across relatively small bodies of water

7. a voyage by ship that is made for pleasure g. car rental agency

8. an airline that operates its aircraft on fixed h. load factor

routes and at fixed times

9. a packaged tour that offers transportation, i. depreciation

accommodation, meals and often other inducements

10. an airline that operates on routes and at times j. car ferry

when there is a demand for this service

11. a lowering or falling in value k. affinity group

12. the number of people the plane can hold l. charter inclusive tour