b) Persuade your friend that your favourite type of travelling is the best one.

XV. Interview your group mates until you find three people who do one of the things listed below:

	Find three people who usually travel to the sea		Find three people who become tourists twice a year
	Find three people who spend their holidays at home		Find three people who think that climbing the mountain is fun
	Find three people who lie in the sun 12 hours a day while on holiday		Find three people who always buy souvenirs for friends
	Find three people who often travel by bus		Find three people who travelled only with their family
	Find three people who prefer going sightseeing to shopping		Find three people who travelled only in Ukraine
	Find three people who are going abroad next year		Find three people who believe life is boring without tourism

Use the following: Do you...? How often do you...? Where do you…?

XVI. Discussion of the text:

• Speak about tourism types according to the purpose of trip;
• Discuss the existing types of tourism according to the means of transport;
• Think about possible types of tourism in the future. Will they be different in 200 years or not?

Reading Exercises

XVII. Read and translate the following text about forms of tourism in Greece:

In recent years special forms of tourism, offering travellers the opportunity to enrich their activities by attending specialised programmes such as therapeutic–spa tourism, religious tourism, ecological tourism, agrotourism etc, have been developing more and more systematically in Greece. Thus, the country has become a popular tourist destination not only for holidays of the “classical type” but also for people interested in alternative holidays who, apart from relaxing and sightseeing, wish to enjoy the unique experience offered by the country’s nature and its “products”, its religious culture and the specialised infrastructure of the Greek tourist industry.

Greece has a very important cultural heritage that can attract a large share of international tourists. Traditional architecture, traditional settlements and the historic centres of cities and towns are key elements of Greek cultural heritage and image. Eco-tourism is also well developed as Greece has a wealth of ecological resources. As for religious tourism which includes churches, monasteries, religious festivals etc., this kind of tourism is still in the initial stage of development, but with great potential here. Greek monasteries are wonderful monuments of art and technique, some of them dating back to the 10^th century. Conference tourism leaves much to be desired as the country is at the bottom of the international conference market in terms of the number of conferences hosted annually. Sports tourism has high potential for development in Greece as there are lots of sports centres there.

XVIII. On the basis of the text prepare a short report about existing tourism types in Ukraine. Characterize our cultural, historical, religious, health, ecological and sports tourism.

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