旅游实务英语练习及参考答案Chapter-10-Economics-and-Tourism(练习).docx

Chapter 10 Economics and Tourism
Text A The Economics of Tourism
Activities:
1. Decide whether the following statements agree with the information given in the text.
____(1) As a matter of fact, foreign and domestic tourists spend less on a daily basis in the
place they visit than they do while in their home country or province.
____(2) Foreign tourist expenditures in the attractions become imports of this country.
____(3) Economic benefits and costs of tourism reach virtually everyone in the region in one
way or another.
____(4) Community decisions over tourism often involve debates between industry proponents touting tourism,s economic impacts (benefits) and detractors emphasizing tourism,s costs.
____(5) Sound decisions rest on a balanced and objective assessment of both benefits and costs and an understanding of who benefits from tourism and who pays for it.
2. Fill in the blanks with proper words to complete the following statements.
(1) Increased tourist spending produces more financial transactions in this region thereby creating a transactions_________ .
(2) This should be of particular interest to local and national governments that____________ taxes on such transactions.
(3) Fixing our eyes solely on the economics of tourism could lead us to engage in_________ that would subordinate nobler time-honored local values to money and what it can buy.
(4) Sound decisions rest on a balanced and objective______________ of both benefits and costs and an understanding of who benefits from tourism and who pays for it.
(5) Economic impact analyses provide___________ estimates of these economic interdependencies and a better understanding of the role and importance of tourism in a region,s economy.
3. Questions for discussion.
(1) What immediately comes to people,s minds when you see foreign tourists in your town or
city appreciating local sights and points of interest?
(2) What kinds of methods are used to estimate tourism,s economic impacts?
(3) Why do the tourism activities cause inflationary pressure on local residents?
(4) Why do communities need to understand the relative importance of tourism to their region,
including tourism,s contribution to economic activity in the area?
(5) What makes the decision makers and the general public sometimes have a distorted and
incomplete understanding of tourism,s economic effects?

Text B What Economic Impacts Does Tourism Have?
Activities:
1. Decide whether the following statements agree with the information given in the text.
______(1) There are a number of positive and negative sides of tourism,s economic boom for local communities.
______(2) Tourism industries are labor and income intensive, translating a high proportion of
sales into income and corresponding jobs.
______(3) Tourism can not inflate the cost of housing and retail prices in the area.
______(4) Changes in tourist spending can impact every sector of the economy in one way or
another.
______(5) The magnitude of secondary effects depends on the propensity of businesses and
households in the region to purchase goods and services from local suppliers.
2. Fill in the blanks with proper words to complete the following statements.
(1) Fiscal impact analysis may determine if government revenues from tourism activity (taxes,
direct fees, etc.) will cover the added costs for _______ and government services.
(2) A multiplier is a factor of proportionality that measures how much an _____ variable
changes in response to a change in some exogenous variable.
(3) Economic impact analysis is a(n) _______ assessment.
(4) The final consumers of tourism goods and services are _______.
(5) This ______ shows the economic impact process.
3. Questions for discussion.
(1) What are production changes associated with the immediate effects of changes in tourism
expenditures?
(2) What are the production changes resulting from various rounds of re-spending of the hotel
industry,s receipts in other backward-linked industries?
(3) What are the changes in economic activity resulting from household spending of income
earned directly or indirectly as a result of tourism spending?
(4) What does an economic multiplier refer to?
(5) What steps should be done for Economic Impact Analysis?

参考答案
Text A The Economics of Tourism
1. Decide whether the following statements agree with the information given in the text.
(1) F (2) F (3) T (4) T (5) T
2. Fill in the blanks with proper words to complete the following statements.
(1) multiplier (2) impose (3) endeavors (4) assessment (5) tangible
3. Questions for discussion.
(1) The answers may be as varied and as interesting as they can be. They may think of the cultural, social, educational, religious or environmental aspects of tourism as you please.Or you may think about the economic side of tourism.
(2) A variety of methods, ranging from pure guesswork to complex mathematical models, are
used to estimate tourism,s economic impacts.
(3) As a matter of fact, foreign and domestic tourists, spend more on a daily basis in the place
they visit than they do while in their home country or province. This increased tourist
expenditure causes inflationary pressure on local residents who have to stretch their
spending capacity to be able to buy things sold to tourists at such high level of prices.
(4) Tourism,s economic impacts are an important consideration in state, regional and
community planning and economic development. Economic impacts are also important
factors in marketing and management decisions.
(5) Media coverage of these studies tend to oversimplify and frequently misinterpret the
results, leaving decision makers and the general public with a sometimes distorted and
incomplete understanding of tourism,s economic effects.

Text B What Economic Impacts Does Tourism Have?
1. Decide whether the following statements agree with the information given in the text.
(1) T (2) T (3) F (4)T (5) T
2. Fill in the blanks with proper words to complete the following statements.
(1) infrastructure (2) endogenous (3) logical (4) households (5) figure
3. Questions for discussion.
(1) Direct effects are production changes associated with the immediate effects of changes in
tourism expenditures.
(2) Indirect effects are the production changes resulting from various rounds of re-spending
of the hotel industry,s receipts in other backward-linked industries (i.e., industries supplying products and services to hotels)
(3) Induced effects are the changes in economic activity resulting from household spending of
income earned directly or indirectly as a result of tourism spending.
(4) A multiplier is a factor of proportionality that measures how much an endogenous variable
changes in response to a change in some exogenous variable.
(5) A standard economic impact analysis traces flows of money from tourism spending, first to businesses and government agencies where tourists spend their money and then to other businesses which supply goods and services to tourist businesses.