ENGLISH FOR TOURISM

50% - presentation
20% - attendant
30% - participation

12 sessions -

AN INTRODUCTION TO TRAVEL AND TOURISM

What is travel?
- more than 24 hrs, less than consecutive year.

Travel is the movement of people or objects (such as airplans, boats, trains and other
conveyances) between relatively distant geographical locations.
Travel is the movement of people out of their residential place for more than 24 hrs but
less than a consecutive year, for purposrs of pleasur (WTO)

What is tourism?

Tourism is travel for recreational, leisure and business purposes/

Tourism is

What are components of the tourism industry?

International tourists are foreigners

IMPACT of TOURISM INDUSTRY

Social: bring pp together, promote peace and tỏelance, shaired experiences from the
country they viditest.
Negative: social changes; increased crime, changes un moral behavilor, destructions of
heritage.
ECONOMIC:
- improve tax revenues, personal income
- increase standards of living
- employment opportunities

- experience local residents/ social events (frequent social events)

- restricts brain drain (not need to move, stay to work)
- improved lifestyle

Negative:
- demonstration effect (the foreigners’ behavior affect the local)

ECONOMIC IMPACT
- industrialization
Visitors --> go shopping --> goods manufacturing --> material generation --> and transport
--> road widening and automobile development --> fuel exploitation.

- More employment opportunities

- Greater market (export and import)
- Foreign Exchange
- Better infrastructure
- Use of Advanced Technology
- Globalization
- Brand building
Liberal trade policies: remove barriers between nation, encourage national goods trade
- Balance of payments: lợi nhuận từ tourism, trả debt từ nước ngoài - cân bằng

ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT
Positive Increased investment to improve facilities
Preservation of heritage infrastructure
Beautification of the area
Negative Over development spoils nature
Local people displaced
Damage to natural flora and fauna
Waste disposal problems
Scarcity of natural resources
Increase in pollution

1. A
2. I
3. D
4. F
5. G
6. E
7. C
8. g
9. B
10. J

Big Ben - tower clock famous for its accuracy and its massive bell.
History
A tower clock
The name is only for the bell

Schedule:
Chimes evry hour, and smaller bells around it chime 15 mins to mark each quarter hour