TOURISM AND TRAVELLING
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READING
4
Work with a partner to discuss the following.
1
What’s the difference between a tourist and a
traveller?
2
How much of your own country have you visited?
3
Is it possible to travel without leaving home?
5
a
Read the article quickly and choose the most
suitable heading for each paragraph. (There are two
extra headings.)
a
Virtual tourism
b
Tourist or traveller?
c
Most popular destinations
d
Holiday at home
e
Holiday problems
5
b
Read the article again and answer the questions.
1
How is a traveller different from a tourist? Give three
examples.
2
How did tourism start?
3
What does the text say about people who live in
large countries?
4
What is an ‘armchair traveller’?
5
How has television affected attitudes to travel?
6
How might travel change or develop in the future?
7
Do you agree that travel is no longer necessary?
SPEAKING AND WRITING
6
What are the most interesting places you have
visited in your own country and abroad? Where else
would you like to visit?
7
Complete these travel tips with the words in the box.
accommodation be customs documents find out
vaccinations insurance read respect take
1
about local laws and customs.
2
aware of people acting suspiciously.
3
Obtain comprehensive travel
.
4
Check what
and healthcare you need.
5
Make copies of
, e.g. tickets, passport,
insurance policy, and leave one copy at home.
6
enough money.
7
about local tricks used on tourists.
8
Never carry packages through
for others.
9
local dress codes; think about what you wear.
10
Stay in locally-owned
and try to eat in
locally-owned restaurants.
8
Work with a partner. Think of as many travel tips for
someone visiting or coming to live/work in Bahrain as
you can, and write the five most important.
Think for a minute
1
What’s the difference between travel and tourism?
Well, being a traveller is more than just being a
holidaymaker. A holiday is just a short time away, and
it normally involves relaxation. Tourists stay in holiday
resorts, not travellers. Travellers go for
the experience, and their journeys
are usually much longer and more
challenging. For example, travellers tend
to avoid tourist traps and like to go off
the beaten track to discover new places.
Travel is an age-old phenomenon, but
tourism is a relatively recent invention.
Thomas Cook is often described as the
first travel agent because he arranged
the first ‘package tour’: a 19-kilometre trip for 500
people, in 1841.
2
Going overseas in order to experience a different
way of life is what many people think of as travel,
but travel does not necessarily mean going abroad.
How many people can say they have visited every
part of their own country? Many people who live
in vast countries such as Russia and the USA have
only visited a small part of their own country, and so
domestic travel is also very exciting. It’s a surprising
fact that about 75 percent of US citizens do not own
a passport, so travelling does not mean
leaving the country for them.
3
Some people can’t travel or don’t like the
physical reality of travelling to faraway
destinations. These days it is easy to be an
‘armchair traveller’. People can visit distant
corners of the world or even little known
parts of their own country without leaving
their living rooms by finding them on the internet.
Television documentaries and the internet make the
world a small place, and some people argue that
travel is no longer necessary. Many people already
use interactive computer programmes, and virtual
travel will become increasingly common. Enthusiasts
argue that by doing this we will have all the benefits
of travel without the inconvenience.
TRAVEL AND TOURISM
Getting away from it all?
‘How many
people can say
they have visited
every part of their
own country?’
Next week: Tea and coffee
