Increasing speed on railways meant that the tourist industry could develop internationally. By 1901, the number of people crossing the English Channel from England to France or Belgium had passed 0.5 million per year.
However it was with cheap air travel in combination with the package tour that international mass tourism developed after 1963. For the worker living in greater London, Brindisi today is almost as accessible as Brighton was 100 years ago.
TEXT WORK
1. Pronounce correctly and transcribe. Consult the dictionary if
Necessary.
Health, leisure, disease, disorders, bronchitis, initially, machinery, owners, comprised, seafront, previously, accessible, manual, phenomena, revive, towards, accustom, emerge, curious, reserve, acknowledged, coast, conurbations, cultural, either, variety, whole, gout, sociological, industrial, oligarchy, seafront, previously, appeared, cuckoo, mechanical, rugby, amusement, occur, urban, package, campaigner, luxury, boarding, statutory, obligation, foreign, Belgium, cheap.
2. Compare and mind the difference:
BrE AmE
traveller traveller
centre center
to popularise to popularize
3. Answer the questions.
1. When did cultural tourism develop into leisure and health tourism?
2. What did some English travellers decide to do after visiting the warm land of the South of Europe?
3. Why did people begin visiting places with mineral waters?
4. Why was the leisure travel a British invention?
Английский язык для турбизнеса и сервиса
5. Who did leisure travel apply to first? Why?
6. In which way the British origin of the travel industry is reflected?
7. When and where was winter tourism invented?
8. Who invented winter tourism?
9. What were the Swiss used to do in winter?
10. When was the first winter packaged tour established?
11. What other kinds of sport were established in Britain?
12. Why couldn't mass travel develop earlier?
13. Who is the father of modern mass tourism? Why?
14. When did the tourist industry develop rapidly? Why?
15. What was introduced in the Bank Holiday Act of 1871?
16. How did this Act influence the development of tourism industry?
17. What were the first resorts development on Britain and why?
18. Whose steps did population follow travelling to the coast? Why?
19. What was the norm on tourism for a century?
20. Who travelled abroad at that time? Why?
21. What happened after the World War II in the tourism industry?
22. What happened towards the end of the 20th century?
23. How did paid holidays helped develop the travel industry?
24. Why did mass tourism develop internationally?
25. Why did international mass tourism develop rapidly after 1963?
Give Russian equivalents to the following words and word
Combinations. Find and translate sentences with them in the
Text.
Leisure travel, it was not until, for the rest of their lives, health-giving mineral waters, in order to relieve a whole variety of diseases, liver disorders and bronchitis, the first European country to industrialize, the first society to offer time for leisure, did not apply to the working masses, owners of the machinery of production, economic oligarchy, long esplanade along the seafront, Swiss village, the best thing to do, to stay indoors, the first packaged winter sports holidays, vocabulary of sport bears, formalized and codified by the British, a natural answer, mass travel, to enjoy the benefits of leisure time, a major development, within easy distance, the first package tour in history, by chartering a train, a group of temperance campaigners, tourist industry, time off, a statutory right for workers, work on public holidays, travel facilities, as close as possible, the growing industrial conurbations, holiday resorts, in travelling to the coast, widely acknowledged, domestic tourism, with the rise of package tours, market was revived, upmarket inland resorts, manual workers, cheap air travel, in combination with the package tour.
Unit 1. Forms Of Tourism
5. Give English equivalents to the following words and word combinations.
Туризм с целью улучшения здоровья; культурный туризм; развился в досуговый туризм; английские путешественники; теплые районы южной Европы; оставаться там на холодное время года; британское изобретение; благодаря социологическим факторам; индустриальное общество; растущее число людей; первоначально; владельцы заводов; торговцы; состоит из нового среднего класса; британское происхождение; отражается во многих названиях мест; один из первых курортов; исторический курорт; континентальная Европа; дворцы-гостиницы; отражают доминирование английских клиентов; зимний туризм; изобретен британцами; пока не появились первые туристы; долгая снежная зима; производить (делать) часы с кукушкой; организованные виды спорта; достиг других стран; свидетельством этому служит...; первоначально французский вид спорта; проводить первый национальный чемпионат; в поисках развлечения; в самое холодное время года; начать развивать; улучшения в технологии; короткое время; изобретение железной дороги; британские города-курорты; городские центры; отец современного массового туризма; тотчас же увидеть потенциал для развития бизнеса в этом секторе; первый в мире туроператор; за ним вскоре последовали другие; развивался быстро; могут себе позволить роскошь путешествий; поехать в отпуск; в качестве отступления; не обязаны платить сотрудникам; промышленный север; целая коллекция других мест; идя по стопам королевской знати; популяризация морских курортов; благодаря его регулярным визитам; путешествия за рубеж; культурно любопытные; меньшинство; появляться в глубине континента; популярность спадает; увеличивающийся комфорт; к которому путешественники привыкают дома; к концу 20 века; оплачиваемый отпуск; увеличивающаяся скорость железнодорожных перевозок; пересекать Ла-Манш; международный массовый туризм; доступный; сто лет назад.
6. Make word combinations, translate them and find them in the text.
health number
English season
warm society
cold lands
visit masses
Английский язык для турбизнеса и сервиса
mineral
variety
liver
British
sociological
European
industrial
growing
working
economic
factory
middle
British
well established
long esplanade
continental
palace
reflecting
English
winter
leisured
Swiss
tourists
snowy
stay
cuckoo
mechanical
reached
codified by
national
natural
looking
coldest
begin
improvements
large
short class
country
factors
places
oligarchy
travellers
invention
waters
owners
tourism
disorders
of diseases
Europe
items
clocks
along the seafront
origin
indoors
hotels
winter
sport
other countries
appeared
the dominance
village
customers
classes
the British
holiday resorts
i
benefits
championship
towns
interest
answer
space
development tour
Unit 1. Forms Of Tourism
| leisure | a train |
| enjoy the | numbers |
| seaside | for amusement |
| major | time |
| leisure | easy distance |
| within | in technology |
| urban | Season |
| package | Centers |
| chartering | to develop * * * |
| temperance | right |
| potential | houses |
| tour | holidays |
| tourist | of travel |
| developed | facilities |
| middle | classes |
| luxury | resorts |
| boarding | rapidly |
| statutory | conurbations |
| take | acknowledged |
| travel | collection |
| holiday | industry |
| industrial | campaigners |
| a whole | places |
| other | in the steps |
| following | for business |
| widely | operator ^^^ |
| the seaside | • • ■ workers |
| regular | resorts |
| poor | holiday |
| domestic | speed |
| foreign | at home |
| culturally | visits |
| minority | comforts |
| emerged | health |
| holiday | tours |
| package | tourism |
| increasing | villages |
Английский язык для турбизнеса и сервиса
accustomed travel
inland travel
manual curious
increasing inland
air of resorts