Business tourism is a travel for business purposes. Travelling on business has become one of the main sectors of the travel industry. Nowadays the tourist companies try to provide business travelers with all the possible facilities for a comfortable business journey with compartments away from other travelers, international telephone calls, tasty meals when they want to, and in general a greater control over their environment.
Business travelers are businessmen and government officials. They often travel to attend a seminar, a conference, an international exhibition or a trade fair.
Convention tourism, including visiting seminars and conferences has become a very important part of business tourism.
There are a lot of tourist companies now providing travellings and other services for business tourists. They offer faxes, E-mail and telephone communications for them. They also provide business tourists with secretarial services, answering services, business-meeting arrangements. Usually airports, hotels and even airplanes provide business facilities for business travelers.
In future tourist companies will provide more services for business travelers. They will not only provide first class services for them, but also collect information on markets and trade fairs, economic data, arrange negotiations. They will also arrange different excursions to famous sights and provide good opportunities for having a good rest at the destinations.
Assignment 4.2 Answer the following questions:
1. What is business tourism?
2. What do tourist companies try to provide tourists with?
3. Who are business travelers?
4. What do they travel to attend?
5. What has become a very important part of business traveling?
6. What do tourist companies provide business travelers for?
7. What kind of services will tourist companies provide in future?
8. Will they arrange excursions to famous sights?
Assignment 4.3 Complete the sentences:
1. Business tourism is a travel for …
2. Traveling on business has become one of the main …
3. Nowadays the tourist companies try to provide business travelers with all …
4. Business travelers are businessmen and government …
5. They often travel to attend a seminar, a conference, an international …
6. Convention tourism, including visiting seminars and conferences has become a very important part of …
Assignment 4.4 Insert the appropriate words from the list:
trade, airplanes, services, the main sectors, exhibition, officials, compartments, provide, purposes, faxes, E-mail and telephone communications, a very important part, environment, secretarial services, comfortable business, to attend, airports
1. Business tourism is a travel for business ….
2. Traveling on business has become one of … of the travel industry.
3. Nowadays the tourist companies try to … business travelers with all the possible facilities for a … business journey with … away from other travelers, international telephone calls, tasty meals when they want to, and in general a greater control over their….
4. Business travelers are businessmen and government ….
5. They often travel … a seminar, a conference, an international … or a … fair.
6. Convention tourism, including visiting seminars and conferences has become … of business tourism.
7. There are a lot of tourist companies now providing travellings and other … for business tourists.
8. They offer … for them.
9. They also provide business tourists with …, answering services, business-meeting arrangements.
10. Usually …, hotels and even … provide business facilities for business travelers.
Assignment 4.5 Translate the following sentences from Russian into English:
1. Деловой туризм – это путешествие с целью заниматься бизнесом. Деловой туризм стал одним из основных секторов индустрии туризма.
2. В наши дни туристические компании стараются обеспечить бизнес-туристов всеми возможными средствами для комфортного делового путешествия.
3. Туристы обычно путешествуют для того, чтобы посетить семинар, конференцию, международную выставку или торговую ярмарку.
4. Туркомпании предлагают туристам факсы, электронную почту, телефонную связь. Они также обеспечивают их услугами секретаря, автоответчиком, организацией деловых встреч.
5. В будущем туркомпании будут не только обеспечивать их первоклассными услугами, но и собирать для них информацию о рынках и торговых ярмарках, экономическую информацию, организовывать переговоры.
TEXT 5. INCENTIVE TOURISM
VOCABULARY. LEARN THE WORDS:
Reward, a gift, cash, challenge, to demand, personal achievement, to reduce, taxation deductions, mundane items, to share, sparkle, the annual leave, the prestige, the involvement
