About Tourism

 

For questions 1- 8, read the text below and decide which answer (A, B, C or D) best fits each gap.

Tourism is one of the world's largest industries, and it is the fastest growing. It contributes over £50 billion to the economy annually, over £12 billion of it from overseas visitors. About 25 million overseas visitors [come from/come away with/*come to/come down to] ... Britain each year. Tourism is one of the biggest employment [*sectors/zones/sections/districts] ... in the UK, too – it employs over 1.7 million people, which is more than in the construction or health service industries. 

Around 20% of all new [employments/vocations/works/*jobs] ... are in this industry. These figures are very impressive, but how do they translate [from/*into/at/for] ... job possibilities for you? There is room in this industry for all sorts of people, with different educational [*backgrounds/settings/traditions/surroundings] ... , personal attributes, interests and career aims. A tourist is really a traveller – someone who [does/performs/*makes/breaks] ... a journey, usually for recreation, [so/*like/such/as]... a holiday or sightseeing. [*Therefore/Because/Despite/Although] ... , tourism at its very simplest refers to the industry that provides travel and entertainment facilities for people away from their own homes.

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