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

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 a resort hotel there are always swimming-pools, fitting-centres, tennis courts, 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.

Comprehension questions

1. How is leisure tourism called?

2. What type of travel is leisure tourism?

3. What do leisure travellers look for?

4. Where do leisure travellers go on holiday?

5. What do leisure travellers enjoy?

6. What does a resort hotel offer?

7. What are other ways to travel for pleasure?

8. Why will more and more people travel for pleasure in future?