旅游实务英语练习及参考答案Chapter-12-Tourism-Policy-and-Legal-Liabilities(练习).docx

Chapter 12 Tourism Policy and Legal Liabilities
Text A Tourism Policy
Activities:
1. Fill in the blanks with proper words to complete the following statements.
(1) Tourism policy provide_________ about the nature and direction of product development.
(2) Negative___________ or perceptions of eco-tourism can have a negative effect on the
destination.
(3) Multi-destination is a growing_____________ of the tourism industry.
(4) Tourism policy may encourage___________ the industrial sites into tourist attractions.
(5) For tourism business, tourism policy is the basis of development. It is___________ to the
competitiveness and sustainability of a tourism destination.
2. Questions for discussion.
Many destinations worldwide are adopting an explicitly Eco-Tourism policy, which is an
approach to the management of tourism, aimed at maximizing economic, social and environmental benefits and minimizing costs to destinations. Simply put, it is a tourism that
creates better places for people to live in, and better places to visit.
(1) How can you be a eco-traveller?
(2) How would you travel like a local without a sense of an‘outsider and intruder’ ?
(3) How to choose which holidays to patron?

Text B Legislative Requirements for Developing a Destination
Activities:
1. Decide whether the following statements agree with the information given in the text.
____(1) A destination,s interest in maritime legislation should not be confined to passenger
movements at sea.
____(2) Maritime pollution could not hurt the tourism product.
____(3) The designation of a buffer zone for ecologically fragile area as government reserve
should not be maintained.
____(4) The Town and Country Planning Act and accompanying Fisheries Aquatic Wild Life
Regulations, the Wild Birds Protection Act and the Wild Life Protection Act allow for
protection of flora and fauna.
____(5) Legislation should also be enacted that requires new restaurants and hotels, or those
undergoing renovation, to have adequate toilet facilities and amenities for disabled
persons.
2. Fill in the blanks with proper words to complete the following statements.
(1) Legislation needs to be _____ to establish a Tourism Board for the support of the tourism
industry.
(2) Following the laws which establish the Tourism Board, a series of regulations should be
prepared to ______ those laws.
(3) It is recommended that the destination place its applied international and civil _____ codes with local legislation.
(4) Also the destination should sign any of the leading International Maritime Organisation
Conventions to safeguard the ____ environment.
(5) The _____ of the these acts should be wide enough to include the protection of both
marine and fresh water aquatic fisheries and birds and four-footed wildlife.
3. Questions for discussion.
(1) How can the laws be updated periodically based on trends in the world?
(2) How could the destination protect hotel owners from claims from visitors?
(3) How could the destination safeguard the marine environment?
(4) Why could building codes for lodges in protected area be expected to vary from those for
structures built from established building materials?
(5) Why may there be areas in which absolutely no one is allowed to go within the park?

参考答案
Text A Tourism Policy
1. Fill in the blanks with proper words to complete the following statements.
(1) guideline (2) publicity (3) segment (4) transforming (5) critical
2. Questions for discussion.
(1) Before you book, before you travel, whilst on holiday and when you get back, choose a
responsible operator; reduce your carbon emissions; read up on local cultures and learn a
few words of the local language; buy local produce; if you’ ve promised to send pictures
or gifts to local people remember to do so, etc.
(2) You feel a little like you really live there for a short while, and can enjoy the peace and
quiet or the pace and excitement of the place as much as the people who really live there do.
(3) Choose the tour operators and accommodation providers who have agreed to the policy of
Eco- Tourism. Ask them questions about how they have chosen to implement it locally,
for instance, how they address the community sustainability promises like supporting
local projects & people through volunteering, fund raising or charity, offering local people
good working conditions, a fair wage, and empower them with training opportunities, and
supporting local craft makers and artisans, and promoting cultural attractions and so on.

Text B Legislative Requirements for Developing a Destination
1. Decide whether the following statements agree with the information given in the text.
(1) T (2) F (3) F (4) F (5) T
2. Fill in the blanks with proper words to complete the following statements.
(1) enacted (2) implement (3) aviation (4) marine (5) scope
3. Questions for discussion.
(1) It is recommended that a least the legislation should be enacted to give the Tourism Board
the choice of when to adopt and apply new regulations.
(2) A good precedent in law to protect hotel owners from claims from visitors is the English
Hotel Proprietors, Act. This law allows an escape from being liable for losses suffered by
guests unless they take advantage of the hotel,s security system.
(3) The destination should sign any of the leading International Maritime Organization
Conventions to safeguard the marine environment.
(4) Building codes for lodges in protected area can be expected to vary from those for
structures built from established building materials. It is impractical to develop codes for
such resorts because of the new and diverse indigenous materials that may legitimately be
used. The use of such materials is necessary if lodges are going to fit into the surrounding
environment. Lodges must, however, be certified by a professional engineer.
(5) Within the park itself there may be areas in which absolutely no one is allowed to go, for
protection of the area,s biodiversity.