Hospitality, catering, accommodation, the flows of tourism, seasonality, manpower planning, perishability, non-utilization, constitutive part, campsites, caravans, holiday villages
Assignment 1.1 Read and translate the text:
Hospitality is an important part of the tourism industry. Tourism and hospitality are very closely connected as travelers always need a place for accommodation and catering. The accommodation sector is central to tourism. The flows of tourism are directly influenced by the size of the accommodation sector, by the quality it offers, and by its possibility to adapt to demand. Accommodation depends on the following factors:
Seasonality as its economic activities are seasonal and accommodation implies a great flexibility in structures.
Manpower planning as this industry is labour-intensive. It requires accurate forward planning of temporary employment.
Perishability as its product cannot be stocked. Accommodation products that are not consumed cannot be stored for use at a future date. Non- utilization in hospitality is rather expensive.
The success of tourism depends on the quality of the hospitality and customer service and the efficiency of the operation provided by the staff of the hotel.
The hospitality product consists of the following constitutive parts and services provided by them:
Built accommodation or alternative accommodation presented by hotels, holiday centres or campsites, caravans and cruise ships;
Individual or collective accommodation presented by second homes or holiday villages;
Profit-and-non-profit making accommodation presented by hotels or holiday camps for children and social tourism.
The hotel is the traditional form of tourist accommodation. It creates direct and indirect employment and provides an important source of foreign currency.
Assignment 1.2 Answer the following questions:
1. Is hospitality an important part of the tourism industry?
2. Why are tourism and hospitality closely connected?
3. What are the flows of tourism influenced by?
4. What are the major factors which accommodation depends on?
5. What is rather expensive in hospitality?
6. What does the success of tourism depend on?
7. What is the structure of the hospitality product?
8. What is the peculiarity of the constitutive parts of the tourist product?
9. What is non-profit making accommodation?
10. Why is hospitality so important?
Assignment 1.3 Use the appropriate words from the list:
central, expensive, accommodation and catering, the tourism industry, be stored, influenced, a great flexibility, labour-intensive, accommodation
1. Hospitality is an important part of .
2. Tourism and hospitality are very closely connected as travelers always need a place for .
3. The accommodation sector is to tourism.
4. The flows of tourism are directly by the size of the accommodation sector, by the quality it offers, and by its possibility to adapt to demand.
5. Accommodation depends on seasonality as its economic activities are seasonal and accommodation implies in structures.
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6. The accommodation industry is . It requires accurate forward planning of temporary employment.
7. The product of the cannot be stocked.
8. Accommodation products that are not consumed cannot for use at a future date.
9. Non- utilization in hospitality is rather .
Assignment 1.4 Translate the following sentences from Russian into English:
1. .
2. , .
3. , , .
4. , .
5. : , , , , .
