2009年12月24日木曜日

12th week -Tourism-

Title: Tourism

Author: Paul A. Davies

Publisher (level): Oxford Bookworms Factfiles (2)

Summary:

Tourists travel to places away from home and stay there for a short time to do business, to visit friends or family, and to have a holiday. These kinds of travel are part of tourism. Tourism is very important business for many countries, and it is getting bigger.

Tourism probably began in Roman times. Rich Romans visited friends and family who were working in another part of Roman Empire. Romans built roads, and travellers stayed in small hotels. In the nineteenth century, travelling by sea became faster and safer because the first steamships were built. During twentieth century, travel continued to become cheaper and easier. In1949, the first company which sold the package holiday was started. With the package holiday, the company puts everything: plane ticket, hotel room, food, and so on. The modern tourism began.

Tourism includes these businesses: for example, hotels, sports, and entertainment. These days, there are many kinds of travel. Back-packing and eco-tourism are ones of them. But tourism has disadvantages. Someone says tourism is bad for the environment because visitors bring rubbish and cars, boats, and planes bring pollution.

Tourism changes from year to year because people want to see and do different things. In 2001, a rich American man had the first holiday in space. Some companies plan to sell holidays in space. There is a company planning to build a hotel on the moon. What will be the tourism in the future?

Evaluation: 3 stars

I’m taking advantages of tourism when I go back home in long vacation. The train takes me home safely in 2 hours. Without it, I would have to walk long and dangerous way to go back home. Reading this book, I learned what the tourism is. What surprised me is that tourism began about 2000 years ago.

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