World Tourism - Unit Menu - Grammar, Vocabulary, Skills, Case Study, and Speaking - Tourist Destinations - Tourism Industry and Numbers

Oct 1, 2026

World Tourism unit menu presents practice areas for learning English for international tourism: present simple question forms, tourism statistics vocabulary, professional skills for checking and confirming details, and a booking-focused case study alongside speaking tasks. The unit guides learners through tourist destinations, reading about the tourism industry with key terms such as inbound, outbound, domestic tourism and VFR, and number listening drills. It also includes tourism statistics discussions and sector vocabulary for accommodation, attractions, events, food, transportation, and travel trades, supported by a Great USA quiz and grammar patterns for forming questions.

LanguageEnglish

CategoryLifestyle

FormatPDF

Pages8

Reading Time12 min

AccessFree to download

Unit Menu

Tourist Destinations

The Tourism Industry

World Tourism - Numbers

Tourism Statistics

Tourism Sectors

The Great USA Quiz

Grammar: Present Simple Question Forms

1 world tourism UNIT MENU Grammar: present simple question forms Vocabulary: tourism statistics Professional skills: checking and con rming details Case study: make the right booking Speaking TOURIST DESTINATIONS 1 What are the world’s top tourist destinations? Put the countries in order from 1 to 6. Compare your ideas with a partner. Then check your answers in File 1 on page 102. China France Italy Spain United Kingdom (the UK) United States of America (the USA) Reading THE TOURISM INDUSTRY 2 Read the tourism industry facts. Match the key words and phrases 1–8 with the definitions a–h. Most tourism in the world is domestic tourism – people travelling in their own country. It represents about 80 percent of all tourist trips today. People travel for many reasons. Some inbound tourists travel for leisure, recreation and holidays. Other people are visiting friends and relatives (VFR) or travelling for health and religious reasons. Others travel for business and professional purposes. 8 1 inbound tourism a a member of your family 2 outbound tourism b people travelling in their own country 3 domestic tourism c travel for a short time or for a speci c reason 4 VFR stands for d tourists arriving in different countries from their own 5 trip e time devoted to rest, relaxation and pleasure 6 relative f visiting friends and relatives 7 leisure g to give money as a payment for something 8 spend h tourists visiting places outside their own country WORLD TOURISM Vocabulary NUMBERS 3 ))) 1.1 Listen and practise saying the numbers. 1 1 to 20 2 21, 32, 43, 54, 65, 76, 87, 98 3 109, 210, 311, 412, 513, 620, 730, 840, 950 4 1,000, 1,500, 10,000, 10,750, 100,000, 1,000,000, 1,000,000,000 4 ))) 1.2 Listen and circle the number you hear. Then practise saying the numbers. 1 13, 30 2 14, 40 3 15, 50 4 16, 60 5 17, 70 6 18, 80 7 19, 90 5 ))) 1.3 Complete the table. Then listen and check your answers. 1 W ORLD TOURISM | Percentages | Fractions | Decimals | | --- | --- | --- | | 1 150% | 1 | 1.5 | | 2 75% | ¾ | 2 | | 3 3 | ½ | 0.5 | | 4 33.3% | 4 | 0.33 | | 5 25% | ¼ | 5 | | 6 6 | 1 5 | 0.2 | | 7 12½% | 1 8 | 7 | | 8 10% | 8 | 0.1 | Listening TOURISM STATISTICS 6 ))) 1.4 Work in pairs. What do you know about international tourism? Discuss these questions. Then listen and check your answers. 1 Which continent receives the most visitors? 2 Which country receives the most money (receipts) from international tourism? 3 Which nation spends the most on travel and tourism? 4 Which country does the WTO expect to be the world’s top destination within the next ve years? Vocabulary TOURISM SECTORS 7 Match the tourism sectors 1–7 with the words and phrases a–g. Use a dictionary if necessary. Add at least TWO more words/phrases to each sector. 1 Accommodation a Olympic Games, business convention 2 Recreation and entertainment b travel agent, tour operator 3 Attractions c restaurant, café 4 Events and conferences d zoo, museum 5 Food and beverage e airline, railway 6 Transportation f campsite, bed and breakfast 7 Travel trades g golf, skiing 8 Which sector do you work in, or would you like to work in? Which sectors generate the most jobs and money in your country? 9 1 W ORLD TOURISM A THE UNITED STATES Speaking THE GREAT USA QUIZ B C D 1 Match the photos of places in the USA with the names in the box. What do you know about these places? Compare your ideas with a partner. Las Vegas San Francisco The Grand Canyon Times Square 10 2 Study the Grammar box below and complete the questions in the quiz. Use the question words and phrases in the box. Not all the words and phrases are needed. how how long how many how much how often how old what when where which who why The Great USA Quiz 1 1 are most international visitors to the USA from? a Canada b the UK c Mexico 2 2 does the typical visitor spend during their

FAQs

What grammar structure does this unit focus on for asking questions?

It focuses on present simple question forms, including word order for questions with be and using do/does with other verbs.

What are inbound, outbound, and domestic tourism?

Inbound tourists arrive in a country from abroad, outbound tourism involves travelling to other countries, and domestic tourism is travel within a person’s own country.

How are tourism sectors organized in the vocabulary tasks?

Learners match tourism sectors such as accommodation, attractions, events, food and beverage, transportation, and travel trades to related words and phrases, then add additional items for each sector.

Oct 1, 2026

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