Unit 8: Tourism Vocab for Listening

Exercise 1. Complete the passage with these phrases: People travel for lots of reasons. They make journeys to and from school or work every day; visit friends and family; take day trips shopping or to football matches; go out for evening entertainment such as the cinema; and they go away on business or study trips. So, when does travel become tourism? When people travel to and stay in a place which is not where they live. For example, there is [1] recreational tourism if you want to relax and have fun, maybe at the beach. There's [2] cultural tourism sightseeing or visiting museums to learn about history, art, and people's lifestyles. With [3] adventure tourism you explore distant places or do extreme activities. [4] Ecotourism is about ethical and responsible trips to natural environments such as rainforests. [5] Winter tourism is usually a holiday in resorts where there is snow and people go skiing or snowboarding. [6] Sports tourism is to play or watch different sporting events like the Olympics. [7] Educational tourism is to learn something, possibly a foreign language, abroad. Nowadays there is also [8] health tourism to look after your body and mind by visiting places like spa resorts; [9] religious tourism to celebrate religious events or visit important religious places such as Mecca for Muslims; and [10] gap-year tourism when young people go backpacking or do voluntary work between school and university. Exercise 2. Match the words with the definitions below. ‘Guide’ has two different meanings. A. Holidays package holiday A holiday where your travel and hotel are arranged for you. trip A short journey to a particular place tour A journey to visit different places. resort A place where a lot of people go on holiday, usually by the sea. guide A person who shows tourists around. guide A book that gives tourist information about a place. cruise A holiday during which you travel on a ship or boat and visit a number of places. voyage A long journey on a ship or in a spacecraft. B. What people do during their trip stay in a hotel or a guest house send some postcards look round the museums and art galleries hire a car go sightseeing go on excursions and trips take some photos buy some souvenirs Dictation and Vocabulary ReviewListen to the recording for the first time and complete the statements with one or two words. 1. Expats are people that have left their native country.2. A backpacker is someone who tries to keep their cost very low and they’re continually moving from place to place.3. A flashpacker is someone that still has income from somewhere and has more tech and toys, stays at maybe nicer hotels.4. A slow travel: gets a house or an apartment in a place for anywhere from one to six months and enjoys what it feels like to actually live somewhere. He develops a deep connection with the places that he lives in.5. The downside of being a tourist is that you never really can develop friendships.6. To convince somebody to do slow travel, the first thing is to get connected on the blogosphere with many other slow travelers so others will think it is achievable for them.7. The next thing is that doing projects in every location such as the Philippines is a great place to hire people or Vietnam is a great place to put capital.8. The business projects help to get engaged.