《旅游英语教程》以旅游导论为框架,同时拓展旅游业知识,目的是使读者对旅游知识有一个较全面的了解,同时关注旅游业发展的新趋势,包括红色旅游、乡村旅游、会展业、环境保护和文化遗产保护等内容。在语言技能训练方面,每个单元都涵盖听、说、读、写、译技能的全面训练,提供真实的语言环境,更利于读者掌握实用技巧。《旅游英语教程》系统性强,内容新,具有较强的实用性、趣味性和时效性。
《旅游英语教程》适用于有一定英语基础的学习者,如英语专业、旅游类专业的本科生,也适用于旅游类高职高年级的学生。
随着社会的进步和人民生活水平的提高,世界各国都越来越重视本国旅游业的发展,由此旅游活动在世界范围内迅猛展开。旅游业的发展不仅可以在很大程度上促进经济的提升,同时也能在促进各国文化交流和世界和平方面起到不可估量的作用。自改革开放以来,我国旅游事业有了飞速发展,今后仍然是我国经济发展的重要组成部分。旅游行业对高级旅游人才的供需矛盾将日趋凸显,解决这一问题的根本出路是加强旅游高等教育。而在旅游专业的高等教育中,“旅游英语”是一门重要课程。
本书是在学生完成初级英语学习的基础上使用的教材,目的在于既要进一步提高学生的英语水平,拓展从事旅游业必须掌握的英语专业词汇,又要较全面地介绍旅游、旅游业方面的知识,促使他们在旅游理论知识、实际工作能力和旅游专业英语方面均得到提高。
本书特别注重旅游专业的知识性,精心选取旅游业最新内容,并以旅游导论为框架,目的是使学生对旅游知识有一个较全面的了解。例如,什么是旅游,旅游业包括哪些方面,旅游营销及旅游对一个国家经济、文化和社会等方面的影响等。本书同时注重学生实践能力的培养,编写了导游、饭店等工作的实际程序。书中的写作部分,编入了旅游业务中常见的内容和文本形式,旨在帮助学习者得心应手地完成日常工作。本书介绍了有代表性的国内景点和与旅游有关的经济、文化等方面的知识,对学习者特别是导游员有所帮助。作为英语教材,本书注重培养听、说、读、写、译各方面的技能。全书分为15个单元,每个单元分为四个部分,分别强调听、说、读、写四大技能模块。本书融知识性与趣味性于一体。为便于学生掌握各知识点,书中配有相应练习。
本书配有电子课件,以适应多媒体教学的需要。下载地址为:
www.tup.tsinghua.edu.cn
北京第二外国语学院研究生周陈亮和韩梦春参加了本书的编写,在此向他们表示 感谢!
全书编写时间仓促,错误遗漏在所难免,恳请读者指正。
Unit 1 Tourism Industry and Tourists..
Part Ⅰ Listening and Speaking Passage 1 The Rise of Outbound Travelers from Mainl and China
Passage 2 Definitions
Dialog The Scrapping of One of the Countrys Three "Golden Week" Holidays
Part Ⅱ Reading
Text A Tourism
Text B UNWTO Sees a Promising Future for Rural Tourism Development in China
Exercises
Part Ⅲ Applied Writing
Writing a Business Letter
Exercises
Part Ⅳ Supplementary Reading
Tourism Still an Economic "Pillar".
Unit 2 Transportation
Part Ⅰ Listening and Speaking
Passage 1 Announcements
Passage 2 Tourism in Tibet
Dialog Booking a Plane Ticket
Part Ⅱ Reading
Text A Transportation
Text B China Southern Airlines Opens Air Link with Myanmar
Exercises
Part Ⅲ Applied Writing
Writing a Memorandum
Exercises
Part Ⅳ Supplementary Reading
Sun, Sea and Sand in Saipan
Unit 3 Hotel Accommodation
Part Ⅰ Listening and Speaking
Passage 1 Reservation for Accommodation
Passage 2 The Use of Function Rooms
Dialog Check-in Procedure
Part Ⅱ Reading
Text A Hotel Accommodation
Text B Room Types and Arrival/Departure Pattern
Exercises
Part Ⅲ Applied Writing Orientation Planning
Exercises
Part Ⅳ Supplementary Reading
The Management of Commercial
Accommodation
Unit 4 Hotel Management
Part Ⅰ Listening and Speaking Passage 1 Facts about Your Hotel
Passage 2 Restaurant Positioning
Dialog Career Development
Part Ⅱ Reading
Text A Managing Hotel Productivity and Controlling Labor Costs
Text B Food and Beverage Management
Exercises
Part Ⅲ Applied Writing Memo —— Delegating the Task
Exercises
Part Ⅳ Supplementary Reading
Managing Change
Unit 5 Travel Agents
Part Ⅰ Listening and Speaking
Passage 1 What Is a Tour?
Passage 2 World Travel
Dialog Terminal 3 at Beijing Airport in Use This March
Part Ⅱ Reading
Text A Package Tours
Text B China International Travel Service
Exercises
Part Ⅲ Applied Writing
Writing a Letter of Request
Exercises
Part Ⅳ Supplementary Reading
UN Chief Full of Praise for Beijing
Unit 6 Tour Guides
Part Ⅰ Listening and Speaking
Passage 1 Escorted Tours
Passage 2 Preparation before Taking a Tour Dialog Talking about the Itinerary
Part Ⅱ Reading
Text A Being a Good Tour Guide
Text B Distinct Individuals
Exercises
Part Ⅲ Applied Writing
Writing a Response to the Complaint
Exercises
Part Ⅳ Supplementary Reading
Checked Baggage Losses
Unit 7 Special Interest Tours
Part Ⅰ Listening and Speaking
Passage 1 Special-Interest Group Travel
Passage 2 Adventure Tours Dialog Holiday-Making: Hard to Make a Decision
Part Ⅱ Reading
Text A Rural Tourism
Text B Red Tourism
Exercises
Part Ⅲ Applied Writing
Writing a Letter of Apology
Exercises
Part Ⅳ Supplementary Reading
The Potential for Promoting Rural Tourism in China
Unit 8 Promotion
Part Ⅰ Listening and Speaking
Passage 1 Exhibition Promotion
Passage 2 Promotion
Dialog Tangjiahe Natural Reserve
Part Ⅱ Reading
Text A Creating a Marketing Plan——Design a Road Map to Guide Your Marketing
Campaign
Text B E-mail Marketing
Exercises
Part Ⅲ Applied Writing
Writing a Direct Mail Letter
Exercises
Part Ⅳ Supplementary Reading
Five Extraordinary Online Promotion
Secrets to Sky-rocket Your
Sales
Unit 9 MICE Tourism
Part Ⅰ Listening and Speaking
Passage 1 Overseas Posters Exhibition Launched
Passage 2 MICE Tourism——Guangzhou Gives Top
Priority to Developing Local Tourism Dialog World Expo 2010 Shanghai China
Part Ⅱ Reading
Text A The Growth of the Convention Industry
Text B MICE Industry Becomes New Development Trend in Viet Nams Tourism
Exercises
Part Ⅲ Applied Writing
Writing a Letter of Invitation
Exercises
Part Ⅳ Supplementary Reading Singapore Strengthens MICE Status
Unit 10 The Social and Cultural Impact of Tourism
Part Ⅰ Listening and Speaking
Passage 1 The Cultural Impact of Tourism
Passage 2 Tourisms Effect on Local Culture Dialog The Socio-Culturai Impact of Tourism——A New Perspective
Part Ⅱ Reading
Text A Social and Cultural Impacts of Tourism
Text B Tourisms Socioeconomic
Impact Control Measures
Exercises
Part Ⅲ Applied Writing
Writing a Letter of Reply to an Invitation
Exercises
Part Ⅳ Supplementary Reading
"Car-Free" Day
Unit 11 Ecotourism
Part Ⅰ Listening and Speaking
Passage 1 Ecotourism
Passage 2 Environmental Protection.
Dialog Ozone Layer
Part Ⅱ Reading
Text A Tourism Will Contribute to Solutions for Global ClimateChange and Poverty Challenges
Text B 2004 Nobel Peace Prize
Laureate, Professor Wangari Maathai
Exercises
Part Ⅲ Applied Writing
Writing an Announcement
Exercises
Part Ⅳ Supplementary Reading
Paulson Impressed by Green Efforts
Unit 12 Conservation of Cultural Heritage
Part Ⅰ Listening and Speaking
Passage 1 Michigan Alliance for the Conservation of Cultural Heritage
Passage 2 Conference of Conserving
Michigans Cultural Heritage in the 21 st Century Dialog The Beijing Cultural Heritage Protection Center
Part Ⅱ Reading
Text A Cultural Heritage Conservation in Municipal Planning
Text B Protection of the Great Wall
Exercises
Part Ⅲ Applied Writing
Writing a Memorandum
Exercises
Part Ⅳ Supplementary Reading
Protecting the Cultural Heritage Sites of the 20th Century
Unit 13 Tourism Organizations
Part Ⅰ Listening and Speaking
Passage 1 PATA Travel Mart 2007 Opens in Bali Indonesia
Passage 2 World Tourism Day
Dialog The Chinese Olympic Committee
Part Ⅱ Reading
Text A World Tourism Organization
Text B 2007 Press Releases: PATAs CEO Challenge 2008 Confronts Climate Change
Exercises
Part Ⅲ Applied Writing
Writing a Letter of Congratulation
Exercises
Part Ⅳ Supplementary Reading 2008 Beijing Olympics Tourism Promotion in Taiwan
Unit 14 Sightseeing (1)
Part Ⅰ Listening and Speaking
Passage 1 Mount Tai —— Symbol of the Chinese Spirit
Passage 2 Huangshan
Dialog New Subways Open for the Olympics
Part Ⅱ Reading
Text A Mount Tai —— Symbol of the Chinese Spirit
Text B Guilin
Exercises
Part Ⅲ Applied Writing
Writing a Resume
Exercises
Part Ⅳ Supplementary Reading US Tours Now Open to Chinese Groups
Unit 15 Sightseeing (2)
Part Ⅰ Listening and Speaking
Passage 1 Kunming
Passage 2 Chinese Fans Dialog The Working Hours in Beijing Will Change for the Next Two Months
Part Ⅱ Reading
Text A Shilin
Text B Xian
Exercises
Part Ⅲ Applied Writing
Writing Application Letters
Exercises
Part Ⅳ Supplementary Reading
First Group to US
Keys
harter flights from Shanghai to Saipan, the largest island and capital of the United StatesCommonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands, resumed on Friday after a three-monthsuspension. Each Monday and Friday, tourists can fly straight from Shanghai to Saipan. To furtherdevelop the China market, discussions on two additional flights from July 15 are undergoing. The charter flights between Shanghai and Saipan have been operating for the past three years.These are carried out by Century Tours and Tinian Dynasty Holiday with China Eastern Airlines. As an American tourist destination, the Northern Mariana Islands (Saipan, Tinian and Rota)received the Approved Destination Status from the China National Tourism Administration at theend of 2004. Over the past few years, the seaside resort has begun to attract an increasing numberof Chinese tourists. "The number of visitors from China to the Northern Mariana Islands is growing very fast. Atotal of 39,253 visitors came in 2006, an increase of 19.24 percent over 2005," said Emma S.Villagomez of the Marianas Visitors Authority, "Our resumed Shanghai-Saipan flight willpossibly double the number, which means we will receive more Chinese tourists this year thanever before. In addition, the Beijing-Saipan flight will also resume soon."