Provide the synonyms for the following verbs. Recast the sentences with them so as to make them sound similar.

· to increase

1. The percentage of people travelling annually has increased by 10%.
2. The physician increased the dosage from one to four pills.

· to decline

1. Profits declined by 10%.

2. U.S. Embassy officials declined to say Friday when she would be flown back to the United States.

3. His health was declining day by day.

4. I am sorry I must decline your invitation.

· to threaten

1. Do you mean to threaten?

2. Look! A storm is threatening.

3. Famine threatens the district.

4. The city was threatened by the epidemic.

5. The practice threatens to become general.

 

Answer the questions using the information of the article.

1. Why is there the difficulty in defining such notions as ‘tourism’ and ‘hospitality’? Are they interdependent?
2. What’s the difference between international and domestic tourism?
3. What does the percentage of all worldwide trips show? Why are the numbers of business and VFR trips lesser of those mentioned before?
4. What sorts of accommodation do domestic and international tourists use?
5. What are the factors that will influence tourism in the next decade? Which parts of the world are likely to obtain the growth of tourism? Which of them can face the decline in this sphere? What are the obvious reasons which can influence them, according to Cetron?
6. What prevents tourists from visiting Africa?
7. Why is there the rivalry between global brands and small operators? What are the strong and weak points of both?
8. Comment on the problems of the tourism workforce from the point of view of the author of the article.
9. Why is climate change considered to be a key problem? Which weather conditions can influence the tourist areas?

Summarize the information given in the opinions and the article and fill in the table. Prepare your utterance.

Positive influence of tourism	Negative influence of tourism

UNIT 7

 

It’s common knowledge that travelling to another country people take not only their luggage along. They take their customs, traditions, and way of behaviour as well. Why not many people like watching tourists abroad? What’s wrong with them? Should people possess any knowledge of the country he or she goes to?

 

Exercise 1. Listen to the speaker, insert the missing words and say if he likes to travel with many tourists.

Travelling gives you _______________________ you cannot find in your own country. You meet local people and get to _______________________. It’s so exciting. I _______________________ and doing some research on the country or countries I want to visit. Sometimes I like to plan _______________________, my flights, hotels and tours, etc. For me, the most exciting thing is arriving in a country with no _______________________ and no _______________. I _______________________ and guest houses. You get to meet and talk to different and interesting people and _______________________. I also like to visit places that are _______________________. Being somewhere with thousands of other tourists? It’s not my ______________.

Exercise 2. Read the article and comment on its key points.

BE A TRAVELLER, NOT A TOURIST!

Picture the scene. A lost-looking couple on a street corner of some typical bustling capital city. The guy is wearing a pair of unflattering shorts, sandals with shabby socks and a T-shirt with an inappropriate sentiment emblazoned across it that probably wasn't even funny back home and definitely isn't here.

The girl seems completely oblivious to the fact that she's receiving all sorts of attention from the locals, most of it negative, because she's displaying so much flesh. Her expensive jewellery, therefore, looks even more visible and the huge camera hung ungainly around his neck is another sign of ostentatious wealth that is attracting glances of envy and scorn in equal measure from passers-by.

They’re both so lost in studying the map in their Lonely Planet guide, turning the book upside down from time to time to see if that helps, that they wouldn't notice a pick-pocket if he came and jumped up and down in front of them. Of course, pick-pockets don't do that, so they headed off to their next cross-off-the-hot-list attraction with lighter pockets.

I’m sure by now you're turning your nose up in the air and insisting that you wouldn't dream of behaving like that on your gap year. That's the behaviour of a tourist, after all, and you're a traveller... but what exactly does that entail?

The debate on the distinction between tourists and travellers may be a facile one, as is now the opinion of many commentators. After all, the definition of a tourist is simply “a person who makes a tour, especially for pleasure” (Websters Dictionary). That pretty much covers most of us when we travel, even those of us travelling to volunteer.

However, in making the distinction we are obviously trying to get to something deeper – an understanding of how some of us try to travel when we go on holiday and how to encourage those who seem to want to build a "Little England" or a "corner of their home state" to be more open minded when they travel.

So how are you going to do it? What are the golden rules for travelling well and avoiding being tainted with the “just a tourist” tag and how can you make sure you're a traveller not a tourist on your gap year?