A) Complete the sentences with the words and phrases from the box

A brief history of tourism

The history of European tourism can perhaps be said ______________ (1) with the medieval pilgrimage. Although it was undertaken primarily for ___________________ (2) reasons, pilgrims quite clearly saw the experience as a kind of holiday (the term itself was derived from the ‘holy day’ and it was associated with leisure activities). Pilgrimages created a _______________ (3) of tourist aspects that still exist – bringing back __________________ (4), obtaining _____________ (5) with foreign banks, and making use of space available on existing forms of transport.

During the 17th-19th centuries, the education of the rich and privileged few was not _______________ (6) without a Grand Tour of Europe’s cultural sites. The sons of the nobility and the gentry were sent upon an extended tour of Europe as an _________________ (7) experience. A modern equivalent of the Grand Tour is the phenomenon of the backpacker, although cultural holidays are also important.

Things started to change for ordinary people in 1845 when Thomas Cook organized the first _________________ (8). By 1939, an __________________ (9) one million people were traveling abroad for holidays each year. It was in the last three decades of the 20^th century that tourism really ___________________ (10). By now it has become a popular global leisure activity.

Tourism is _____________ (11) for many countries such as Egypt, Thailand and many island nations due to the large ________________ (12) of money for businesses with their goods and services and the opportunity for ___________________ (12) in the service industries associated with tourism. Tourism has been industrialized: landscapes, cultures, cuisines, and religions are _______________________ (13) displayed in travel brochures.

B) Answer the teacher’s questions.