Tourism

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Unit 10

• Tourism

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Part I. Warming up

• I.  Vocabulary
• detract to take something of value away from
• ascribe to believe sth. to be the result or work
  of
• intraregional with the region
• intra- prefix) within e.g. intravenous.????
  intramural .???, ??? intraocular ???

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• long-haul (esp. of an aircraft flight) covering
  a distance round the world. A long distance It
  is a long haul from New York to Los Angeles.
• A long period of time Over the long haul the
  candidates performed well

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World Tourism Organization

• The World Tourism Organization is the leading
  international organization in the field of travel
  and tourism. It serves as a global forum for
  tourism policy issues and a practical source of
  tourism know-how and statistics.Its membership
  includes 139 countries, seven territories and
  some 350 Affiliate Members representing regional
  and local promotion boards, tourism trade
  associations, educational institutions and
  private sector companies, including airlines,
  hotel groups and tour operators.

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• With its headquarters in Madrid and an
  international staff of 90 tourism specialists,
  WTO is an intergovernmental organization vested
  by the United Nations with a central and decisive
  role in promoting the development of responsible,
  sustainable and universally accessible tourism.

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Instructions

• You are going to hear some information about
  world tourism, and complete the following
  information according to what you hear on the
  tape.

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• 1. Size of international tourism (1999)
• phenomena keep this position a bigger portion
  majority tourism dynamic growing
• 1)      664 million
• 2)      4.5
• 3)      us455 billion
• 4)      3.1
• 5)      US 685

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• 2.       International tourism by means of
  transport (1999)
• Road transport most widely used
• 1) 43 2) 42 3) 7 4) 8

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• 3.       International tourism by purpose of
  visit (1998)
• 1)      62 2) 18 3) 20
• last rising detracted from leisure holiday
  business professional stable

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• 4.       WTO long-term forecast tourism 2020
  Vision
• Forecast and assessment tourism
• 1.56 billion
• a. 1.18 billion b. 0.38 billion
• (top 3 receiving region).
• a. 717 million 46 b. 397 million25
• c. 282 million 18

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Part Two

• Tourism In Europe

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A. Vocabulary

• 1. trench a deep furrow or ditch.
• 2. erode to weaken or damage sth. by taking away
  parts of it gradually to cause to diminish or
  deteriorate as if by eating into or wearing away
• Land without vegetation is prone to be eroded by
  floods.

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Lake District

• A scenic area of northwest England including the
  Cumbrian Mountains and some 15 lakes. It is a
  popular tourist attraction for its associations
  with the 19th-century Lake Poets, notably
  Wordsworth, Coleridge, and Southey.

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Scenery of Lake District
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Sistine Chapel

• a chapel in the Vatican at Rome, built by Pope
  Sixtus IV., and decorated with frescoes by
  Michael Angelo and others.

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• Maurice de Sully, bishop of Paris, decided to
  build a new cathedral for the expanding
  population, dedicated to the Virgin Mary.
  Although construction started in 1163, it was not
  completed until roughly 180 years later in about
  1345. Built in an age of illiteracy, the
  cathedral retells the stories of the Bible in its
  portals, paintings, and stained glass.

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Notre Dame
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Alpine of or pertaining to the Alps, or to any
lofty mountain as, Alpine snows Alpine plants.

• A mountain system of south-central Europe, about
  805 km (500 mi) long and 161 km (100 mi) wide,
  curving in an arc from the Riviera on the
  Mediterranean Sea through northern Italy and
  southeast France, Switzerland, southern Germany,
  and Austria and into the northwest part of the
  Balkan Peninsula. The highest peak is Mont Blanc,
  4,810.2 m (15,771 ft), on the French-Italian
  border.

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• You are going to hear a short report on the
  problems of some tourist sights in Europe. Listen
  and complete the following chat.

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B. Vocabulary

• eliminate to get rid of remove
• an effort to eliminate poverty eliminated his
  enemies.
• surplus
• being more than or in excess of what is needed
  or required
• surplus grain
• bilateral
• Having two sides arranged upon two sides
  affecting two sides or two parties.

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Euro

• The basic unit of currency among participating
  European Union countries. Introduced in 1999 as
  an alternate denomination for non-cash
  transactions, the euro is scheduled to replace
  the existing national units in these countries by
  2002.

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Instructions

• You are going to hear a report about tourism in
  Europe. As you listen, take notes for each of the
  following questions.

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• Listen again and answer the questions in note
  form.
• 1) 613 million
• 2) 448 billion
• 3) 1.6 billion every year
• 4) Because of the introduction of the Euro /
  elimination of exchange fees.

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• 5) Some 77 million
• 6) 16.5 million
• 7) EU countries are already operating in a single
  market
• 8) a. The market will become more transparent.
  b. The market will be more stable
• 9) Itll gain the upper hand over the U.S. in
  all respects.

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Part III Pole to Pole 2000

• Vocabulary
• kayak A light canoe, made of skins stretched
  over a frame, and usually capable of carrying but
  one person, who sits amidships and uses a
  double-bladed paddle. It is peculiar to the
  Eskimos and other Arctic tribes

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kayak
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• foster to help feelings or ideas to grow or
  develop to promote the growth and development
  of cultivate detect and foster artistic talent.
  
• concede to admit as true, correct, or proper,
  often unwillingly to yield or make concession
• stalk to hunt by following closely and quietly
  and staying hidden
• As for shooting a man from behind a wall,
  it is cruelly like to stalking a deer. --Sir W.
  Scott.
• ridge a long narrow raised part of a surface,
  such as the top of a range of mountains or of a
  sloping roof where the two sloping surfaces meet.

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• insight a sudden, clear, but not always complete
  understanding
• bizarre unconventional odd

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Instructions

• You are going to hear a report about a
  pole-to-pole trip and complete the following
  information according to what you hear on the tape

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• Duration of the expedition 10 months
• Participants of the expedition
• Numbers of participants 8
• Age Between 20 and 25
• From which countries?
• France, South Africa, Korea, Japan, Argentina,
  Canada, and the United States
• Some activities during the expedition
• Helping clean up rivers in Yukon Valley
• Assisting the homeless in New York City
• Planting trees
• Giving presentations to more than 4,500 students
  throughout North America

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• Comments and remarks from some of the
  participants
• It was a pretty bizarre environment for me to be
  in.
• Theyve come here with a passion and a will to
  succeed and are proving them every single day.
• That is the way to succeed and you break down
  those boundaries, because you can believe that
  your human potential is far greater than youre
  really aware of.
• I think my biggest challenge is to keep the same
  passion and the same enthusiasm that I had at the
  beginning.