2006年11月英译汉真题

2006年11月人事部三级笔译实务英译汉真题

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For all the natural and man-made disasters of the past year, trave lers seem more determined than ever to leave home.

Never mind the tsunami devastation in Asia last December, the rece nt earthquake in Kashmir or the suicide bombings this year in Lond on and Bali, among other places on or off the tourist trail. The n umber of leisure travelers visiting tourist destinations hit by tr ouble has in some cases bounced back to a level higher than before disaster struck.

“This new fast recovery of tourism we are observing is kind of st range,” said John Koldowski, director for the Strategic Intelligen ce Center of the Bangkok-based Pacific Asia Travel Association. “I t makes you think about the adage that any publicity is good publi city.”

It is still too soon to compile year-on-year statistics for the di sasters of the past 12 months, but travel industry experts say tha t the broad trends are already clear. Leisure travel is expected t o increase by nearly 5 percent this year, according to the World T ourism and Travel Council.

“Tourism and travel now seem to bounce back faster and higher eac h time there is an event of this sort,” said Ufi Ibrahim, vice pre sident of the London-based World Tourism and Travel Council. For L ondon, where suicide bombers killed 56 and wounded 700 on July 8, she said, “It was almost as if people who stayed away after the bo mb attack then decided to come back twice.”

Early indicators show that the same holds true for other disaster-struck destinations. Statistics compiled by the Pacific Asia Trave l Association, for example, show that monthly visitor arrivals in Sri Lanka, where the Dec. 26, 2004, tsunami left more than 30,000 people dead or missing, were higher than one year earlier for ever y month from March through August of this year.

A case commonly cited by travel professionals as an early example of the trend is Bali, where 202 people were killed in bombings tar geting Western tourists in October 2002. Visitor arrivals plunged

to 993,000 for the year after the bombing, but bounced back to 1.4 6 million in 2004, a level higher than the two years before the bo mb, according to the Pacific Asia Travel Association.

Even among Australians, who suffered the worst casualties in the B ali bombings, the number of Bali-bound visitors bounced back withi n two years to the highest level since 1998, according the Pacific Asia Travel Association.

Bali was hit again this year by suicide bombers who killed 19 peop le in explosions at three restaurants.

Visits are also on the upswing to post-tsunami Thailand, where the giant waves killed 5,400 and left more than 5,000 missing.

Although the tsunami killed more than 500 Swedes on the Thai resor t island of Phuket, the largest number of any foreign nationality to die, Swedes are returning to the island in larger numbers than last year, according to My Travel Sweden, a Stockholm-based group that sends 600,000 tourists overseas annually and claims a 28 perc ent market share for Sweden.

“We were confident that Thailand would event ually bounce back as a destination, but we didn’t think that this year it would come ba ck even stronger than last year,” said Joakim Eriksson, director o f communication for My Travel Sweden. “We were very surprised beca use we really expected a significant decline.”

Eriksson said My Travel now expects a 5 percent increase in visito rs to both Thailand and Sri Lanka this season compared with the sa me season last year. This behavior is a sharp change from the patt erns of the 1990s, Eriksson said.

“During the fi rst Gulf war we saw a sharp drop in travel as a who le, and the same after Sept. 11,” Eriksson said. “Now the main im pact of terrorism or disasters is a change in destination.”