Part 1: You will hear a short extract about tourism.

Write NO MORE THAN THREE

WORDS for each blank.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O3bx5miizBw

 The number of travelers has (1) _____________ since the 1050s.

 There is a boom in the (2) ________________________. It generated (3)
_______________________ and made up 10% of global employment in 2017.
 The (4) ________________________ in the industry used to be the Americans, now it is the
Chinese.
 Since (5) ______________________ get richer across (6) _____________________________, so
do their (7) _____________________.
 By 2030, Chinese travels will make up about a quarter of the touris, with Thailand being the (8)
_________________________________ for them. Roughly (9) ____________________ spent by
tourists in the EU are by European residents.
 Residents from (10) ________________________ are banned from travelling.

KEY
1. Soared
2. Global tourism industry
3. 8 trillion dollars
4. Biggest movers
5. Middle classes
=> Middle class (n): the social class whose members are neither very rich nor very poor
and that includes professional and business people
6. Emerging market countries
=> Emerging (adj): starting to exist, grow or become known
7. Travel budgets
8. Top international destination
9. 90% of nights
10. Muslim countries