TYPES OF TOURISM
Active vocabulary
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DIALOGUE:
SORTING OUT DIFFERENT TYPES OF TOURISM
| Student 1: I was wondering if we could continue talking about travel and tourism. |
| Student 2: That sounds fine withme. What do you have in mind? |
| Student 1: Are there many types of tourism nowadays? |
| Student 2: Quite a lot! They depend on the purposes of travelling people. |
| Student 1: Will you share your knowledge with me? If it's not too much trouble, of course. |
| Student 2: No trouble at all! |
| Student 1: I am curious to know how many types of tourism there are. |
| Student 2: I don't think anybody will give you the exact figure. |
| Student 1: Will you name just a few? |
| Student 2: They are international and domestic tourism, in-coming and out-going tourism, recreational and business tourism... |
| Student 1: Wait a minute! Are you serious? Do you mean business travel is a type of tourism? |
| Student 2: I definitely mean it. Look, tourism is not just pleasure! The more purposes travellers may have, the more types of tourism there are and will be. |
| Student 1: Will you sort out some of the purposes of travel then? |
| Student 2: The various purposes are holidays, business, health, study, sports and many more. However, there are a lot more types of tourism. |
| Student 1: Curiously enough, I personally know just holiday, resort, cruise and sports tourism. |
| Student 2: I believe, lots of people think of tourism as just recreation. So you are no exception. |
| Student 1: Will you name some more types of tourism? |
| Student 2: Cultural and educational tourism, ecological and adventure tourism, hiking and hitch-hiking, pilgrimage and special-interest tourism... |
| Student 1: Will you slow down, please? What is a special interest tourism? |
| Student 2: As a matter of fact, there are a great deal of special interest holidays popular with tourists all over the world. |
| Student 1: “Special interest” sounds very intriguing to me. What kind of special interest is meant here? |
| Student 2: Any hobby you can think of. |
| Student 1: Do you mean that if I enjoy beer and take a beer-drinking tour to Bavaria, it is aspecial interest tourism? |
| Student 2: Your example is quite to the point!Why not? Some other examples are cookery and bird-watching, gambling and painting, motor racing and horse riding, botany and survival. |
| Student 1: Survival? It must be fantastic! Is it an adventure holiday somewhere on an uninhabited island or on one of the poles? |
| Student 2: Absolutely so! |
| Student 1: And what does bird-watching involve? |
| Student 2: Those are fascinating tours where travellers watch birds in natural surroundings. Just imagine travelling to the Seychelles Bird Island or to Ecuador! |
| Student 1: Such tours must be very expensive! |
| Student 2: Who told you that a hobby is a cheap thing? Quite the other way round! |
| Student 1: I agree to it. The up-to-date hobbies are really expensive. What are some other new types of tourism in the world today? |
| Student 2: Some of the new types that will continue developing in future are third-age and fourth-age tourism. |
| Student 1: The more you are telling me about tourism, the more ignorant I am feeling. |
| Student 2: Oh, come on! If you do some thinking, you will guess what these types of tourism are about. |
| Student 1: Right. I guess that the third-age tourism concerns retired people. But I can hardly imagine what the fourth-age tourism is. |
| Student 2: The fourth-age tourism involves disabled people. Both terms «third» and «fourth» age are devised for the sake of convenience and politeness towards these kinds of tourists. |
| Student 1: That's understandable! |
| Student 2: And fair enough! |
SUBSTITUTION DRILL
Practise:
1. I was wondering if we could continue talking about travel.
continue "discussing tourism matters
continue discussing types of tourism
go on talking about career education
go on discussing business matters
carry on speaking about the hospitality industry
carry on speaking about the accommodation industry
2. Will you share your knowledge with me?
ideas
views
viewpoints
standpoints
opinions
experience
3. I'm curious to know how many types of tourism there are.
how many tourist arrivals there are
how many new resorts there are
how travellers choose a tour package
what travel agents offer discounts for
where travel agencies advertise themselves
what some purposes of travel are
4. The more purposes travellers may have, the more types of tourism there are and will be.
aims
targets
goals
objectives
ideas about travel
views about travel
5. Will you sort out some of the purposes of travel then?
put together
sum up
summarize
inform me of
advise me on
put me in the picture about
6. Curiously enough, I personally know just holiday tourism.
resort
cruise
sports
adventure
cultural
special-interest
7. As a matter of fact, there are a great deal of special-interest holidays.
resort
sports
adventure
hiking
pleasure
cultural
8. “Special interest” sounds very intriguing to me!
amazing
captivating
thought-provoking
exciting
wonderful
peculiar
9. Your example is quite to the point!
question
answer
idea
view
explanation
statement
10. It must be fantastic!
wonderful
enjoyable
exciting
excellent
marvellous
fabulous
11. And what does bird-watching involve?
hiking
hitch-hiking
motor-racing
painting
cookery
gambling
12. Just imagine travelling to the Seychelles!
Ecuado
Bavaria
France
the desert
the North Pole
an uninhabited island
13. Such tours must be very expensive!
very costly
very inexpensive
very cheap
exciting
fantastic
fabulous
14. Who told you that a hobby is a cheap thing?
travelling
a tour
a journey
a trip
a voyage
a cruise
15. The more you are telling me about tourism, the more ignorant I am feeling.
travel backward
social-interest tourism amazed
adventure tourism excited
third-age tourism interested
bird-watching fascinated
horse-riding impressed
16. If you do some thinking, you will guess what these types of tourism are about.
figure out
understand
realize
imagine
fancy
get the idea
17. I can hardly imagine what the fourth-age tourism is.
fancy
figure out
guess
suppose
assume
presume
ACTIVE VOCABULARY
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TEXTS
LEISURE TOURISM
Leisure tourism is also called pleasure tourism or holiday tourism. It is a type of tourism when a person goes on holiday and does not travel on business. Thus, the purpose of tourism in this case is recreation.
Leisure travellers look for sun, sea and sand. They want to go sunbathing, swimming and diving. So this kind of travellers go to sea resorts or holiday camps and stay at resort hotels.
Leisure travellers enjoy organized entertainment and sport. In aresort hotel there are always swimming-pools, fitting-centres, tenniscourts, discos. A resort hotel offers its customers contests, concerts, shows, animation programmes for children. Usually it offers tours and visits to different attractions: local sights or amusement or theme parks.
Holiday-makers normally travel with their families and children. There are other ways to travel for pleasure: cruising and coaching, motoring and hiking.
More and more working people will have longer paid holidays and long weekends in future. More and more people will retire at an earlier age. It means that more and more people will travel for leisure in future.
SPORTS TOURISM
Sports tourism is a type of active holiday. The purpose of a sporting tour is to exercise and keep physically fit. At the same time travellers enjoy natural surroundings, fresh air and clean water.
Travellers combine action and relaxation during a sporting holiday.
Tourist companies offer hiking, cycling, boating, rafting and other kinds of sporting tour.
Very often sporting tours require preparation and special training. First the tour instructors will plan the itinerary. Then they will train tourists how to use sporting equipment. They will explain the details of the route. They will define means of transportation, provision of meals and overnight accommodation.
During some tours travellers carry their luggage and sporting equipment themselves. During some other tours special carriers transfer the luggage for them. It depends on the difficulty of the tour, on the tourist destination and the local practice.
Within sports tourism there is water tourism, mountain tourism and mountaineering, skiing. Sports tourism is popular all year round.
BUSINESS TOURISM
Business tourism is a travel for business purposes.
Business travellers are businessmen and government officials. They travel on different missions. Theyoften travel to attend a convention. Convention tourism is a part of business tourism. It involves taking part in a conference or a seminar.
Business travellers often travel to attend an international exhibition or a trade fair.
There are tourist companies that provide business services. Those are fax, telex and telephone communications, secretarial services, answering service, business meeting arrangements. There are business facilities for business travellers at hotels, airports, on airplanes.
Business travel will develop faster than other types of tourism in future. There will be more business tourists and more tourist companies which will deal with business tourism. They will provide more services in future. They will collect information on markets and trade partners, provide economic data on monitors, arrange negotiations, offer pre-convention and post-convention tours.
INCENTIVE TOURISM
Incentive tourism means that a business company offers holiday tours to its employees and covers all travel expenses.
On the one hand, the company does it as a reward or a bonus to a person for his successful work.
On the other hand, the company does it as an incentive for the future. The company hopes that the employee will work even better in future and bring profit to the company.
Very often an employer sets a target for an employee: «You will earn a holiday in France for your family if you exceed your quota by 10per cent next year».
Incentive tourism emerged in the 1960s in the USA. Later on it spread in Europe. But only large progressive corporations offer tours to their employees.
In some countries there are specialist tourist companies which arrange incentive tours for business corporations. They take great responsibility because incentive tours go under the name of the business corporation. It means that good travel arrangements will improve its reputation. Bad travel arrangements will shake its reputation.
This type of tourism is still a very small part of international tourism. Most probably this type of tourism won't grow in future.
FAMILIARIZATION TOURISM
Familiarization tourism is often called just FAM tourism. It means that a business company sends its staff on educational tours to its branches or other business companies in other cities and countries.
If a travel agency sends its travel clerks on FAM tours, it means that they will have educational visits to a tourist destination. There they will get familiar with local facilities, hotels, restaurants and attractions. They will study a tour operator's or local travel agency's practice.
Themain purpose of travel clerks on a FAM tour is to get necessary knowledge from personal experience. When the clerks return home, they will know what to offer and what to explain to their customers about thedestination.
Some experts say that FAM tourism is a part of incentive tourism. On the one hand, such a tour is an incentive to the travel agency staff selling holidays. On the other, it is a benefit to the tour operator which arranges them.
FAM tourism is very popular and will become even more popular in future.
VOCABULARY DRILL
I. Match up:
| 1)holiday 2)answering 3)theme 4)natural 5)sporting 6)government 7)overnight 8)economic | a)service b)surroundings c)accommodation d)equipment e)camp f)data g)official h)park |