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3.1. Scan the passage below and say why traveling and tourism are so important in modern life. What are the major types of tourism? Tourists and Tourism

Travel and tourism are addictive and their impact on our lives is truly monumental. Despite the fact that mass tourism is viewed as a simple but harmless way of helping people see the world and broaden their horizons, our desire to maximize every traveling opportunity that presents itself has had a wholly unforeseen impact on our attitudes towards life in general and on the world we live in. In no way could this impact have been accurately predicted, even 30 years ago.

No matter how uninspiring our miserable destination may be, or how disillusioned we are by the transport systems; no matter what trouble our payment of debts due to overambitious holiday spending may lead us into, there is nothing amateur about our desire to make our fantasies realities.

Tourists travel to places away from home and stay there for a short time – a week or two, perhaps. They travel because they want to do business, or to visit friends or family, or to have a holiday. All three kinds of travel are part of tourism. But in the modern world, holidays are the most important kind of tourism.

The tourist industry gives tourists everything that they want and need during their visits: hotels, restaurants, airports, theatres, etc. When tourists visit places in their own country, this is called domestic tourism. When they visit other countries, this is international tourism.

Tourism is a very important business for many countries, and it’s getting bigger all the time. Millions of people like hoteliers and property owners depend on the tourist industry for their livelihood, as well as those who work in this industry. A decrease in the popularity of tourism would be nothing short of disaster.

3.2. A) Read the following texts and match them to the titles below.

b) Answer the questions after the texts.

c) Discuss the titles and the final sentence of each text with a partner.

Title 1. Travel Doesn’t Broaden the Mind

Title 2. Making the Best of Journeys

Text 1

It was the Victorians who were really obsessed with travel. They lived at a time when travel really did harden the body and improve the spirit. It took a rare breed of man to trudge through some malaria-infested swamp in a pith helmet after the native bearers had drunk all the whisky, stolen the rations, and run off with the compass.

Since then, travelers have thought of themselves as faintly noble, and they look down on mere tourists who stay in comfortable hotels and ride in air-conditioned buses. To travelers it is a mark of pride to suffer as much as possible. They get a perverse joy from spending all day squatting over a sordid cesspit.

Paul Theroux, a best-selling travel writer, is one of the people caught up in the myth: “The nearest thing to writing a novel is traveling in a strange country.” Travel, he declares, is a creative act. It isn’t. It may be fun. It may be interesting. But travelers get no insight into eternal truths.

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