旅游英语选读1

Lession 1 What is tourism?

1.Four different perspectives of tourism(要考虑的四个不同方面)：The tourist / The business providing

tourist goods and services / The goverment of the host community or area / The host community

2.The importance of giving a definition of tourism(旅游定义的重要性)：Each of the many definitions that

have arisen is amied at fitting a special situation and solving an immediate problem,and the lack of uniform definitions has hampered study of tourism as discipline.

3.One has only to consider the multidimensional aspects of tourism and its interactions with other activities to

understand why it is difficult to come up with a meaningful definition that will be universally accepted.

4.WTO definitions(WTO 下的定义)

1)The definitions of tourism(旅游)：Tourism comprises the activities of persons traveling to and staying

in places outside their usual environment for not more than one consecutive year for leisure,business and other purposes.

2)The definitions of international tourism(国际旅游)

a)Inbound tourism(入境旅游):visits to a country by nonresidents

b)Outbound tourism（出境旅游）:visits by residents of a country to another country

3)The definitions of internal tourism（境内旅游）:visits by residents of a country to their own country

4)The definitions of domestic tourism（国内旅游）: internal tourism plus inbound tourism(the tourism

market of accommodation facilities and attractions within a country)

5)The definitions of national tourism（国家级旅游）: internal tourism plus outbound tourism(the

resident market tourism market for travel agents and airlines)

5.Tourism as defined by...(其他国家或地区定义)

1)The United States(美国)：A tourist is one who travels away from home for a distance of at least 50

miles(one way) for business, pleasure, personal affairs,or any other purpose except to commute to work,whether he stays overnight or returns the same day.

2)Canada（加拿大）:nonresident travelers, resident travelers, and other travelers.Both nonresident

travelers and resident travelers include both same-day and business muters are included and are not distinguished from other same-day business travelers. Other travelers consist of immigrants, former residents, military personnel, and crews.

3)The United Kingdom（英国）:It measures all trips away from home lasting one or night or more,taken

by residents for holidays,visits to friends and relatives(nonholiday), or for business, conferences, and most other purposes.

4)Australia（澳大利亚）:A person visiting a location at least 40 km from his usual place of residence, for

a period of at least 24 hours and not exceeding twelve months.

5)Chuna（中国）：The sum of all the phenomena and relations arising from the travel and temporary stay

by people who have left home to go to other places to visit.

Notes；

Leisure time余暇 a study tour考察旅游 a wilderness park天然公园

vital to对...至关重要the rail of a cruise sgip游船栏杆make a profit获得利润

tax receipts税收收入the foreign exchange receipts外汇收入the sum total收入乘数

august bodies权威机构...arriving at a consensus达到统一round trip往返旅行

narrow operational definitions只限于实际操作的定义come up with a meaningful definition that will be universally accepted做出一个能被普遍接受的定义

Lession 2 Mass tourism and New tourism

1.Modern tourism

1)The Grand Tour（大旅游）:A tour of certain cities in Western Europe undertaken primarily, but not