Facts and figures v456

Facts and figures v456

Facts and figures

Introduction

The subject of this lesson is 'Facts and figures'.

  • Form groups of three or four pupils.

Discuss the following questions in your group:

  • Do you know how many people take an international holiday every year?
  • And do you know what that number will be in a few years’ time?
  • Is it better to stay at home on holidays or go somewhere?

In this section, we read an introduction to a report about tourism and you’ll read about these figures. But first, let’s find out – what’s the difference is between a tourist and a traveller!

This lesson contains 7 steps and an evaluation.

Step Activity  
  Introduction Find out what you already know.
Step 1

Speaking

 Tick the points about tourism. List with differences between tourist and traveller.
Step 2

Reading-1

 Read an article for fun.
Step 3 Reading-2 Read article and true/false sentences about Annual Report of Word Tourism Association. Make notes, compare ideas.
Step 4

Words

 Match adjectives with meaning. Exercises with adjectives.
Step 5 Reading-3 Match statements, read article and put topics in order.
Step 6 Grammar Past Simple: Grammar Desk, exercises with regular and irregular verbs.
Step 7 Task Write in 200 words about a disastrous holiday.
  Evaluation Reflecting on what you have learned.

 

Difficult words? Search these on Cambridge Dictionaries

 

Step 1 - Speaking

Read the questions below. First read the questions and think about the answers. Then discuss the questions with a classmate.

  • ​What do you think ’tourism’ is? What does it include? What does it not include?
  • Write down the points that you think make a tourist.
         
  1. You are  in a foreign country.
  2. You must be on your own, without company.
  3. You have to see interesting sights, buildings and well-known cities.
  4. A tourist is not the same as a traveller. If no, what is the difference?
  5. Tourism is the same as being on holiday.

 

  • A tourist is not the same as a traveller. What do you think are the differences between a tourist and a traveller? Make a list and compare with the fun article in sept 2 Reading.
    What points (differences) did you have in common with the text?

Possible Answers

Step 2 - Reading

You are going to read the following text, entitled: 'Signs you're A Traveller, Not A Tourist'.
Reading the text is for pleasure, but it will probably help you (with the next Steps).

Enjoy!

Signs you're A Traveller, Not A Tourist

It may seem like splitting hairs, but there are major differences between being a traveller and being a tourist.
Being a traveller is sort of like being a part of a Newtonian law: A traveller in motion stays in motion, yada yada yada.
While being a tourist is sort of like intentionally plopping yourself down somewhere to say you went there. Fancy yourself a traveller? See if the below rings true first.

You dream about your next trip during your morning commute. Solo travel is your thing. You wouldn't be caught dead doing this. Like EVER. You love it so much; you made it your job.

Homesickness happens, we know.
But you don't make it a point to head to the nearest McDonald's / Starbucks / Pizza Hut every chance you get.
You understand that not all money looks like American dollars.
As such, you don't refer to foreign currency as "play money." It's real. Very real.
You have maps stashed on your walls / in your wallet / underwear drawer from favourite places.
Your Facebook cover photo is a destination you love / just got back from. Your phone has the weather and time zone of your favourite spots just because you like to know.
You know how to say "hello / goodbye and thank you" in many a language. You name cities by airport codes, aka CDG, LHR, ORD. Your passport is your favourite personal item. Instagram shots of your friend's holidays on Mexican beaches just isn't really travelling, in your book.

You rationalize trips as "well, that's a month's worth of electricity" or "I can't watch 'Homeland' this season" so you can afford your adventures. Your New Year's resolutions always include places you want to visit in the coming year.
Friends come to you for packing tips. You've never gone anywhere “just to check it off the list.” You know how to get through security in the least amount of time.
This is you: a traveller. NOT a tourist!

Source: www.huffingtonpost.com

 

Step 3 - Reading

World Tourism Organization Annual Report
The World Tourism Organization (UNWTO) is the United Nations agency. The UNWTO is responsible for the promotion of 'good tourism': responsible, sustainable and for everybody.

First read these sentences.
Decide if you think the sentences are true (T) or false (F).
Think about your answer. You can compare with a classmate? Do you have the same or different ideas?

  1. If there is a major international incident, people choose not to travel.
  2. Over 1 billion tourists take an international trip every year.
    Do you think that is true? Where are they from?
  3. Tourism supplies other industries.
  4. Tourism contributes a lot of money to a country’s economy – for both developed and
    emerging economies.

World Tourism Association Annual Report

You are going to read a text.
It's The Introduction to the World Tourism Association Annual Report 2014.
To help you, first take a look at the vocabulary list.

Vocabulary


Now read the text. 

 

The top headlines of 2014 painted a challenging landscape. From sluggish economic growth and geopolitical conflicts to the Ebola virus outbreak in West Africa – to all appearances, such circumstances were hardly favourable for tourism.
Yet in spite of the many challenges the world faced in 2014, international tourism continued to propel ahead.

At the year´s close, the number of tourists travelling internationally grew by 4.4%, reaching a new milestone of 1,135 million, and capping a five-year consecutive increase since the global economic crisis of 2009.
Once again, these results have surpassed UNWTO´s long-term projection of 3.8% growth for the period 2010 to 2020, well on track to reach the projected 1.8 billion international tourists by the year 2030.
With over 1.1 billion tourists taking an international trip every year, tourism continues to be an unstoppable force and a key driver of the global economic recovery. Yet tourism´s record growth is not merely absolute numbers. Tourism´s continued progress and expansion represents an effective solution for many of the world´s greatest challenges.
Indeed, few sectors are as strategically positioned as tourism to contribute decisively to job creation, poverty alleviation, environmental protection and multicultural peace and understanding.

Tourism´s increasing relevance on the development agenda comes at a critical turning point as we shift from the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) into the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), the new blueprint for global development. During this crucial time, sustainable tourism will be counted on to fulfil its role as an important player in achieving the ambitious goals of sustainable development, green growth and a more resilient global economy.
Global challenges call for global solutions. Our commitment remains in advancing UNWTO´s mandate to promote tourism as a driver of economic growth, inclusive development and environmental sustainability and a global solution for a better
future for the planet and its people.
Taleb Rifai, Secretary-General

Source: World Tourism Association (UNWTO) Annual Report 2014

 

Step 4 - Words

Do the exercise.

In the next exercise choose the best adjective to complete the sentence

Step 5 - Reading

What are some of the issues that are facing tourism? Think about it, do the exercise.
Then read the text and answer the question.
After that you are going to write a summary of the article. 

Now read the article:

Some of the Major Current Issues Confronting Tourism

July 2006

Few people would question that tourism and travel can be highly volatile industries. A great deal of the industry is dependent on the leisure traveler. However, tourism is composed not only of leisure travelers but also other groups such as business travelers, and these non-leisure travelers often act and spend in the same way as leisure travelers. Tourism and travel professionals know that their industry is exposed to political, health, and economic undulations. Often it is heard that these ups and downs are outside of tourism and travel professionals’ control. While to some extent industry leaders are forced to react to circumstances outside of their control, an awareness of current challenges can help these leaders to prepare for eventual challenges and to seek ways in which to lessen the negative impact of exigent circumstances. Below is a list of some of the current challenges facing the tourism and travel industry?

  • Tourism is a highly taxed industry. Few people, outside of the tourism and travel industry, realize just how many taxes travelers pay. Look at the percentage of taxes paid on an airline ticket, a hotel room, or a rental car. In some locales (be that local a country, city, state or province) almost 40% of the commodity’s cost comes from add-on taxes. When government officials claim that they must provide additional protection services to non-residents they often fail to take into account just how much money non-residents add to a local economy not only through purchases but also through the payment of taxes.
  • Global standardisation has produced less unique locales. The globalized marketplace means that often the same products are available throughout the world. If part of the reason for travel is to learn about or have the opportunity to explore the unique and different, then the sameness factor is a major tourism challenge. For example, shopping malls around the world often seem to offer the same products and many travelers find hotels to be so standardized that they almost forget in what country the hotel is located.
  • Tourism and travel are highly dependent on the cost of fuel. The recent rise in the price of fuel such as gasoline has a major impact on the entire industry. Summer is the high season for travel and with the cost of gasoline on the rise; many travelers may have to adjust their spending (or vacation length) in order to pay for additional fuel charges. Those locales that are taking this challenge into account and seeking creative solutions will be the ones best prepared to overcome this challenge.
  • The wireless communications world means that one can be there without being there. The new world of telecommunication can offer many advantages to both the traveler and to the travel industry. However, it also means that leisure travelers no longer are simply on vacation. Instead they expect to be connected to business and family at all times. In a like manner, when word-of-mouth combines with telecommunication, then publicity, news stories and events are spread instantaneously throughout the world. The telecommunications revolution also means that business meetings may be conducted on-line or via satellite rather than face to face and may eliminate the need for many business trips. Finally, the telecommunications revolution means that virtual reality often replaces classical reality. No longer can just one city lay claim to an attraction when other cities can reproduce the same attraction in a virtual state.
  • Security is a major challenge to the tourism and travel industry. The tourism and travel industry should have received a major wake-up call on September 11, 2001. Unfortunately many industry leaders simply provided lip-service to security issues rather than confronting the problem. Too many tourism offices or convention and visitors bureaus have no (or almost no) contact with their local police departments. Too many police departments have no officers trained in TOPs (tourism oriented policing/protection services). Too few city councils or local governments have provides their security agencies (e.g., policy departments) with the economic and manpower resources to protect the visitor and tourism facilities. Almost no community has done a tourism security assessment of its industry’s personnel and sites. Unless the visitor’s security becomes a primary focus of concern, many tourism and travel destinations may face great economic losses in the future.
  • Safety is another challenge facing the tourism industry. The current population is aging perhaps like no other one in history. As the baby boom generation (those born between 1946-1960) increasingly approaches its 6th decade of life, many of its members are refusing to slow down. Although the baby-boomers bodies are aging, travel and tourism officials are seeing many of these people practicing all sorts of physical activities, from motorcycling to skiing. This “refusal” to sit back and grow old means that tourism officials will be facing all sorts of safety issues. Mobile medical units may be needed, others will need special diets and readily available pharmacies open 24 hours a day and 7 days a week.
  • Closely related to safety issues are health issues such as pandemics that can easily cause tourism panics. Not only can a drop in water quality (purity) become a major tourism issue, but also the industry must face the reality of pandemics and/or pandemic scares. The SARS “scare” ought to have reminded the travel industry that a few media stories can wreak havoc on the tourism industry’s viability. In a like manner, a nervous public may connect a health event with a potential act of terrorism. The anthrax episodes in Washington, DC are an example of how a nervous public may cease to visit a locale due to health related safety issues.
  • Political conditions will continue to be a challenge for the tourism industry. On the international front, tourism will continue to have to deal with an ever more complicated and confusing political reality. For example, despite governments claiming that they support tourism, visa restrictions have become more complicated. Furthermore, no nation seems to be immune from street demonstrations, politically motivated riots, acts of terrorism, wars or bureaucratic red tape. These circumstances not only give negative publicity to the host locale, but also make travel more difficult and less appealing.
  • Travel stress brought about by poor travel conditions. Few today would disagree that while still romantic, travel is no longer stress-free. Not only is air travel increasingly difficult but other forms of transportation are no longer hassle free. All forms of the travel and tourism industry have placed greater restrictions on what they offer and many have raised prices. Along with these restrictions, many parts of the industry suffer from either limited personnel or poor customer service. So far these stresses have not caused a decrease in travel, but the potential for such a turndown is very present.

Source: http://www.tourismandmore.com/tidbits/some-of-the-major-current-issues-confronting-tourism/


Do the second exercise.

Summary

Write a summary of the above text in your own words (about 300 words).

Tips how to write a great summary

A great summary is easy to read and explains all the main points in the original text. Important points:

  • The main idea of the article is conveyed clearly and concisely (in short).
    How to identify the main idea?
    Gather information from the title, identify important arguments, underline the topic sentence of each paragraph.
  • Put the information of the article in your own words.
  • The summary is much shorter than the original document (max. 1/3 of the original text).
  • The summary explains all the important notions and arguments.
  • The summary condenses a lot of information into a small space.

 

Step 6 - Grammar

If you want to be able to do the assignments correctly you will need to know more about some grammar items.
Just to remember, let's take a look at the Grammar Desk 'Past Simple'.

Past simple


At first an exercise with regular verbs.
Fill in the correct form of the verb in brackets.

Now do exercise 2. Fill in the correct form. 

In questions and negatives, we add did/didn’t + infinitive.
Fill in the correct form.

A friend of yours went to Indonesia on holiday. You ask him some questions.
Create questions with 'did' or ‘was’ with the next words in this exercise.
Use the irregular verbs.
Example: (where/go) ................ Where did you go?

Step 7 - Task

Writing an email

You are going to write an email to your friend about a disastrous holiday that you went on.
Here are some photos that you took. Write your email in about 250 words.

In your email you tell and express your feelings about your disastrous holiday.
Read the tips to write a good email. You hand in your email to your teacher.

How to write a good informal email

  • Your email includes an opening and closing formula.
    (e.g. opening: Dear William, e.g. closing: Best wishes)
  • Your email includes an introductory paragraph.
    (e.g. How are you doing? Did you hear about.....?
  • Your email includes a closing paragraph.
    You start saying goodbye and you can ask for a reply to our email.
  • An informal email includes pleasantries (e.g. I hope you had a nice holiday...)
  • Your ideas are expressed in a clear and well-organized way.
  • There are few or no errors in grammar and spelling.
  • Email contains closing (Best wishes, Take care, Regards...)


Evaluation

Fill in the schedule and answer the questions below.

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Step 1 - Speaking        
Step 2 - Reading-1        
Step 3 - Reading-2        
Step 4 - Words        
Step 5 - Reading-3        
Step 6 - Grammar        
Step 7 - Task        

 

What have you learned in this lesson?
Answer the following questions:

  • What was the most interesting part of this lesson? Why?
  • What was the easiest part of this lesson?
  • What did you already know?
  • What was the most difficult part?

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