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• TEXT 2 Reasons for travel and money spent on travel

• The pie charts show the relative importance of the different categories of travel with reference to British tourists. Read the lecture extract and label the percentages for each category.

• For British tourists, like most countries, leisure tourism is the main reason for travel with 53% travelling for this reason. Visiting friends and relatives, VFR, is the next biggest reason with 32%. Business tourism is relatively small at 11%. When we look at the money spent on travel by British tourists, the order is slightly different. Leisure tourism accounts for 70% of expenditure, then business travel at 16%. Tourists and travellers who are visiting friends and relatives, not surprisingly perhaps, spend less money and this is only 11%.

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• Activities

1. Compare the two charts. Why do you think people travelling for leisure and for business spend more money than people travelling for vfr?

2. Write down the last three trips you or members of your family made, and the reason. Example: Paris – weekend sightseeing trip

• Work in groups. Show each other the trips you wrote down. Can you put the different reasons into categories?

• Use the information from the trips you listed to make a pie chart. How is it different from the chart for British tourists?

• What is the purpose of each of the travel activities: leisure, business, or VFR?

• Have you ever travelled for one of these activities? Tell your partner about it.

• TEXT 3 The changing face of tourism

1. Discuss these questions with a partner.

1. How do you think tourists' reasons for travelling have changed in the last twenty or 30 years?

2. What do you think is meant by 'old' and 'new' tourism?

3. Do you think these words are related to 'old' or 'new' tourism?

2. Read the article to check your answers.