Тема 1.1.4 Отдых. Индустрия развлечений. Путешествия

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Tourism

Each year in the early 1990s travelers in the United States spent over $333 billion for transportation, food and drinks, various kinds of amusement, and motel and hotel accommodations. Travel and tourism have contributed substantially to the growth of such businesses as motels, restaurants, rental-car agencies, amusement parks, and various retail specialty shops, including those that sell cameras and film, clothing, sporting goods, gifts, and souvenirs.

In recent decades visitors from overseas have become an increasingly important part of the U.S. tourist business. In 1970 about 2.3 million overseas visitors came to the United States, spending approximately $889 million. By 1993 the number of overseas visitors—chiefly from Western Europe, Japan, Latin America, and the Caribbean—was an estimated 45.7 million, and their expenditures had risen to more than $56.5 billion. Millions of visitors from Canada and Mexico cross the border every year; expenditures in the United States by Canadian travelers totaled $8 billion in 1992, and spending by Mexicans was $5.8 billion.

Each year Americans take more than 1.3 billion person-trips to destinations within the United States. (A person-trip is one person making one trip to a destination at least 161 km/100 mi from home.) New York City is a popular destination among both domestic and foreign travelers, and tourism is a mainstay of the economies of California and Florida.

Each year nearly 275 million visits are made to the more than 350 areas administered by the National Park Service. Millions of people each year visit the various national monuments, buildings, and museums in the Washington, D.C., area. More than 15 million visits are made annually to Golden Gate National Recreation Area in the San Francisco region. More than 17 million people a year travel on the Blue Ridge Parkway in North Carolina and Virginia, and about 6 million visit the Natchez Trace Parkway in Mississippi, Alabama, and Tennessee. Conveniently located within a day's journey of the eastern United States, Great Smoky Mountains National Park is the most popular national park in the United States, receiving nearly 9 million recreational visits annually.

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Millions of people all over the world spend their holidays travelling. They travel to see other countries and continents, modern cities and the ruins of ancient towns, they travel to enjoy picturesque places, or just for a change of scene. It is always interesting to discover new things; different ways of life, to meet different people, to try different food, to listen to different musical rhythms.

Those who live in the country like to go to a big city and spend their time visiting museums and art galleries, looking at shop windows and dining at exotic restaurants. City-dwellers usually like a quiet holiday by the sea or in the mountains, with nothing to do but walk and bathe and laze in the sun.

Most travelers and holiday-makers take a camera with them and take pictures of everything that interests them – the sight of a city, old churches and castles, views of mountains, lakes, valleys, plains, waterfalls, forests; different kinds of trees, flowers and plants, animals and birds.

Later, perhaps years later, they will be reminded by the photos of the happy time they have had.

People travel by train, by plane, by boat and by car.

All means of travel have their advantages and disadvantages. And people choose one according to their plans and destinations.

If we are fond of travelling, we see and learn a lot of things that we can never see or learn at home, though we may read about them in books and newspapers, and see pictures of them on TV. The best way to study geography is to travel, and the best way to get to know and understand the people is to meet them in their own homes.