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Chapter 1 Tourism Introduction and Overview Text A The Meaning, Scope and Measurement of Travel and Tourism Activities 1. Decide whether the following statements agree with the information given in the text. _______(1) Travel includes all journeys made by people who enter a country for leisure, work,residence, study or who just pass through a country without stopping. _______(2) An excursionist is a person who travels to destinations outside his/her residence and working place, and stays for at least 24 hours, for the purpose of leisure or business. _______(3) A tourist is a person who temporarily visits a destination and stays for less than 24 hours, for the purpose of leisure or business, but not for transit. _______(4) According to the World Travel and Tourism Council, travel and tourism is the largest industry in the world in economics, employment and tax contributions. _______(5) There is no universal definition of the word “tourism ”. 2. Fill in the blanks with proper words to complete the following statements. (1) Tourism is the__________ movement of people to destinations outside their normal places of work and residence. (2) In the Roman period, there appeared the travel for__________ the of travel itself and for pleasure. (3) Travel was also necessary for the artisans and architects “imported ”to_________ and construct the great palaces and tombs. (4) So it is difficult to determine whether they__________ to regional, national or global economies. (5) Any person who is taking a trip within or outside his/her own country of residence_________ of the purpose of travel is a traveler. 3. Questions for discussion. (1) What is the meaning, scope and measurement of travel and tourism? (2) What is the major problem of the travel and tourism industry? (3) What are the main elements characterizing the technical definition