## 2 Tourism

In this theme you will focus on tourism and holidays.
You’re going to look at some facts and figures about tourism, and then some of the issues affecting tourism. For example, did you know that not all tourism is about the traveller? In fact what is the difference between a traveller and a tourist?
The tourism industry is now highly regulated. The result seems to be ‘sameness’. When we go to shopping centres around the world, they are all the same and the products on sale are also often the same that we don’t know what country we are in.
There are many different groups of travel ranging from political travel to economic. We will look at some types of traveller – are you a back packer or a flash packer?
Then we look at eco-tourism – what is it? And are so called ‘eco companies’ really green? And what about a job in the holiday industry? Would you like that? We read about the life of a travel writer. Sounds like the perfect job, right?
This theme includes the first look at literature and we have some literature about the travel theme. We are looking at genres in this section. And we have some videos for you. A TEDX talk about the future of tourism, and a couple of songs about holidays. So pack your bags – let’s go!

Theme 2: Tourism