Question

TOURISM AS A COMMODITY
Tourism is without doubt a valuable economic commodity able to create wealth, give employment and endow at both local and national levels. It stimulates development not only in the destination country, through the provision of employment, facilities and accommodation, but also in the country where the tourist lives through the travel and organisation of holidays. Developing of Third World countries in particular can benefit from increasing interest shown by Western visitors searching for different and more unusual holidays. Ideally, such countries will develop their tourism in such a way that it benefits directly to their own economy. Often it is those features, which cost the locals nothing – scenery, weather, landscape – which attract visitors and bring in a much-needed source of revenue. Tourists and travellers can also benefit from such development since it provides them with the chance to cross geographical and cultural borders that only twenty years ago were closed to them. As ever more distant corners of the world become accessible so we have the chance to learn more about the customs and culture of the people that share this world with us. So the theory goes, but the reality is somewhat different.
How important tourism is and its tremendous future potential is illustrated by recent statistics published by the World Tourist Organisation (WTO), the international body coordinating tourism development. They predict that the current estimate of 415 million international tourist in 1990 will continue to grow steadily by up to 5 per cent in the 1990s, and this is a conservative estimate. Such an impact will have far-reaching consequences. International tourism at this moment accounts for 6 per cent of total world exports and 15 per cent of world trade in services, and is forecast to increase by an estimated 4 per cent each year up to the year 2000, by which time it will be without doubt the world's largest export industry. Today total expenditure on domestic and international tourism represents 12 per cent of the total world Gross National Product (GNP) and it employs over 100 million people. In 1988 alone, about one and a half billion domestic and international tourist trips were made involving a third of the world's population.
Заполните пропуски в следующих выражениях словами из теста, переведите эти выражения на русский язык.
1) …… wealth
2) …… employment
3) ……tourism
4) stimulates ……
5) cultural ……
6) …… estimate

3. Соедините слова в словосочетания и переведите их на русский язык.
consequences, borders, commodity, corners, estimate
1. economic
2. distant
3. cultural
4. current
5. far-reaching

4. Просмотрите текст еще раз и выпишете в две колонки слова, которые имеют отношение к деньгам (MONEY) и туризму (TOURISM).
MONEY (6-7 слов) TOURISM (8-9 слов)

5. Соедините части предложений и расположите их в правильном порядке.
1) geographical/can also benefit from such development/ with the chance to cross/and cultural borders/tourists and travellers/that only twenty years ago were closed to them/since it provides them.
2) today/on domestic and international/tourism of the total world /total expenditure/Gross National Product (GNP) and/represents 12 per cent/it employs over 100 million people.
3) by up to 5 per cent in the 1990s/international tourist/that the current estimate of 415 million/ in 1990 will continue to grow steadily/and this is/they predict/a conservative estimate.
4) able to create wealth/a valuable economic commodity/give/tourism is/employment and endow at both local/without doubt/and national levels.

6. Ответьте на следующие вопросы к тексту:
1) What is a valuable economic commodity able to create wealth, give employment and endow at both local and national levels?
2) What are Western visitors searching for?
3) What chance do we have as ever more distant corners of the world become accessible?
4) Which of the following sentences best summarises the text?
 The disadvantages of tourism are more numerous than the advantages.
 Until now tourism has been largely a phenomenon of the developed world.
 Tourism has already brought economic benefits to many countries and continues to grow at a rapid rate.
 Many poorer countries see tourism as a way to earn foreign currency.

Answer 1

Ответ:

2. Заполните пропуски ... словами из текста ...

1) to create wealth  - создать (создавать) богатство

2) the provision of employment  -  предоставление работы

3) to develop tourism,  international tourism   -  развивать туризм, международный туризм

4) stimulates development  -  стимулирует развитие

5) cultural borders  -  культурные границы

6) conservative estimate  -  скромный подсчёт

3. Соедините слова в словосочетания ...

1. economic  estimate   -  экономическая оценка

2. distant  corners  -  отдаленные углы

3. cultural  borders - культурные границы

4. current  commodity  -  текущий товар

5. far-reaching  consequences  -  далеко идущие последствия

4. Просмотрите текст еще раз и выпишете в две колонки слова, которые имеют отношение к деньгам (MONEY) и туризму (TOURISM).

MONEY (6-7 слов)                        TOURISM (8-9 слов)

Gross National Product                     commodity                                                          

valuable commodity                          development                                                        

benefits                                             future potential                                                        

interest                                              International                                                        

cost                                                   ontinue to grow                                                  

far-reaching consequences              world exports                                                        

                                                          world trade                                                      

                                                          economy                                                      

                                                          tremendous  potential                                                      

                                                                                                   

5. Соедините части предложений и расположите их в правильном порядке.

1) Tourists and travellers can also benefit from such development since it provides them with the chance to cross geographical and cultural borders that only twenty years ago were closed to them.

2) Today total expenditure on domestic and international tourism represents 12 per cent of the total world Gross National Product (GNP) and it employs over 100 million people.

3) They predict that the current estimate of 415 million international tourist in 1990 will continue to grow steadily by up to 5 per cent in the 1990s, and this is a conservative estimate.

4) Tourism is without doubt a valuable economic commodity able to create wealth, give employment and endow at both local and national levels.

6. Ответьте на следующие вопросы к тексту:

1) Tourism is a valuable economic commodity able to create wealth, give employment and endow at both local and national levels.

2) Western visitors searching for different and more unusual holidays in the Third World countries

3) As ever more distant corners of the world become accessible so we have the chance to learn more about the customs and culture of the people that share this world with us.

4) Which of the following sentences best summarises the text?

 Tourism has already brought economic benefits to many countries and continues to grow at a rapid rate.

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