Tourism Voc.docx

TOPIC-SPECIFIC VOCABULARY: TRAVEL AND TOURISM             

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travel agency: a company that arranges travel and/or accommodation for people going on a holiday/vacation or journey. tour operator: a company that makes arrangements for travel and places to stay, often selling these together as package holidays. package tour: a holiday/vacation that is organized by a company at a fixed price and that includes the cost of travel, hotels, etc. all-inclusive: including everything, there are not hidden costs. embark: to get onto a ship; to put something onto a ship get off (a plane/ship): to leave a place, usually in order to start a journey disembark: to leave a vehicle, especially a ship or an aircraft, at the end of a journey; to let or make people leave a vehicle get on (a plane/ship) check-in: the place where you go to at an airport to leave your suitcases, etc. and show your ticket check in: to go to a desk in a hotel, an airport, etc. and tell an official there that you have arrived package tourist independent traveller mass tourism: it is a form of tourism that involves thousands of people going to the same resort often at the same time of year. It is the most popular form of tourism as it is often the cheapest way to holiday, and is often sold as a package deal. eco-tourism: organized holidays/vacations that are designed so that the tourists damage the environment as little as possible, especially when some of the money they pay is used to protect the local environment and animals trip: a journey to a place and back again, especially a short one for pleasure or a particular purpose excursion: a short journey made for pleasure, especially one that has been organized for a group of people journey: an act of travelling from one place to another, especially when they are far apart voyage: a long journey, especially by sea or in space visa: a stamp or mark put in your passport by officials of a foreign country that gives you permission to enter, pass through or leave their country long-haul (flight): a difficult task that takes a long time and a lot of effort to complete economy class: (using) the cheapest and least comfortable type of seats on an aircraft business class: sitting in the comfortable part of a plane, designed for people travelling on business immigration card deported: deport somebody to force somebody to leave a country, usually because they have broken the law or because they have no legal right to be there expatriates: living in a country that is not your own repatriated: repatriate somebody (formal) to send or bring somebody back to their own country

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internally displaced: internally displaced person -IDP- (a person who has been forced to move within their own country because of conflict or disaster) immigration: the process of coming to live permanently in a country that is not your own UNHCR: United Nations High Commission for Refugees (an organization whose function is to help and protect refugees) persona-non-grata: a person who is not welcome in a particular place because of something they have said or done, especially one who is told to leave a country by the government economic migrants: a person who moves from their own country to a new country in order to find work or have a better standard of living culture shock: a feeling of confusion and anxiety that somebody may feel when they live in or visit another country emigration: the act of leaving your own country to go and live permanently in another country refugees: a person who has been forced to leave their country or home, because there is a war or for political, religious or social reasons

------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------A) 1. FALSE. A tour operator only sells flights and accommodations as a package, while travel agency can sell flights and accommodations separately. 2. TRUE 3. TRUE 4. FALSE. When passengers embark they get on a plane or ship. 5. FALSE. When passengers disembark they get off a plane or ship. 6. TRUE. 7. TRUE 8. TRUE 9. TRUE 10. FALSE. Eco-tourism is a way of tourism that tries to minimize its impact on the environment. 11. FALSE. A trip is a short journey with a particular purpose; excursion is a short journey organized for a group of people; journey is to travel from one place to another and voyage is a long journey. 12. FALSE. You don’t need a visa to enter all the countries. To enter some countries such as the USA and Canada, it is necessary to have one. 13. FALSE. A flight form London to Paris is only one hour long. A long-haul flight takes a lot of time. 14. FALSE. Economy class is the cheapest class. 15. –