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Tourism

It is possible to distinguish between two general types of tours. One is the holiday package that has a resort hotel as its destination. The major attractions usually include sun, sea, and activities such as golf or tennis that are offered by the resort itself.
The second is the guided tour that features sightseeing or some other special attraction. These tours are accompanied by a guide who is in charge of travel arrangement and activities. The activities offered by the tour is its principal attraction. The tour may combine travel with education - a tour of great French cathedrals, of archeological sites in Central or South America, or of the great country houses of England. Most of these tours include several different destinations and a good deal of local travel within one region.
Thus, they require careful arrangement and accommodation of accommodations, local transportation baggage handling and all the other details that accompany any kind of travel.
The person who leads such tours is the tour guide. He is multilingual, he relates well to other people, and he deals with the variety of problems that arise not only in making travel arrangements, but also in carrying them out. He deals with the problem of lost baggage and unsatisfactory hotel accommodations, with rainy days and fatigue, with sudden illness, and with the impersonal problems that arise among the members of the group. He is, in other words, almost as much of a psychologist as a travel export.
The public derives many advantages from the packaged tours, the most obvious being the price. When airplane seats and hotel rooms are reserved in blocks by the tour operators, considerable saving are passed on to the customers. Many people would never travel at all without the price inducements offered by packaged tours.
A second advantage is the opportunity for the tourist to make all his travel arrangements in one place at one time. The independent traveller — one who does not travel as a member of a group often has to go to considerable trouble to put the different pieces of his trip together. Airline seats may not be available when he wants them, or he may not be able to secure the hotel accommodation that he wants. Even when a travel agent makes the arrangements, these difficulties still exist, but with packaged tour they are eliminated for the consumer. The tour, in other words, offers convenience as one of its inducements.
A third advantage can be summed up in one term - accessibility. Tours make it possible for people to visit many remote or rugged areas that would otherwise be too difficult for them to try to see on their own. Tours, for example. now regularly go to archeological site in the jungles of Central America. A few years ago only dedicated scientists would have undertaken the hardships of such a trip, but government local airlines, and tour operators have made these and countless other places throughout the world accessible to the general public.

Answer the questions:

1. What are two general types of tours?
2. What is a guide in charge of?
3. What is the first advantage of packaged tours?
4. What difficulties expect an independent traveler?
5. Could people visit many remote or rugged areas a few years ago?
6. Why should a tour guide be multilingual?

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