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МатематикаВопрос:
1. Organised tourism has quite a long history. 1) Read the story and find the information about the man in the picture. What is his name? How is his life connected with tourism? (reading for specific information)
Ответ:
Имя человека на картинке - Томас Кук. Он был одним из первых туристических агентов, организовал первые пакетные туры и открыл первое туристическое агентство.
Ответ:
Thomas Cook was one of the first travel agents. He started to organise the first package tours.
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- Every year travel agents offer all kinds of holidays to all types of people, as nearly everybody can afford some kind of travelling. Of course, in spite of the many advantages which travel agencies can offer, there are still quite a few tourists who go 1 their own and choose their own destination and make their tickets and accommodation reservation. But organized tourism became more and more popular.
- Travel agents think that there are different types of holidaymakers. For each type, they try to offer the 'right' kind of holidays, at the 'right' country and at the 'right' price. All this has to be planned very carefully. So, while most people are still busy 2 buying Christmas presents, the travel agents have already decided where the holidaymakers will go next summer, what kind of things they will do there and how much money they will spend 3 their holidays. Sometimes the agents are right, and holidaymakers will do exactly what the travel agents have planned for them. But sometimes they are wrong. All this makes their business risky, because if they make mistakes, they can lose a lot 4 money.
- Travel agencies have a long history. The Romans probably started tourism 5 their holiday villas in the Bay of Naples*. In the 19th century, the education of the rich people was not complete 6 a Tour of Europe's cultural sights. Things changed for ordinary people when Thomas Cook organised the first package tours.
- Thomas Cook was one of the first travel agents. He started to organise excursions between Leicester and Loughborough 7 train in 1841. In 1855 he organised special trips between Leicester and Paris where a Universal Exhibition* was held. Later, he also organised tours from England to the European countries and around 1860 he opened the first travel agency in England. Thomas Cook's agency sold train and boat tickets and took care
