1 . What’s the difference between travel and tourism? Well, being a traveller is _________ just being a holiday maker. A holiday is just a short time away, and it normally _________ relaxation. Tourists stay in holiday resorts, not travellers. Travellers go for the _________ and their journeys are usually much longer and more _________. For example, travellers always avoid tourist traps and like to go off the _________ track to discover new places. Travel is an age-old phenomenon, but tourism is a _________ recent invention. Thomas Cook is often described as the first travel _________ because he arranged the first “package tour”: a 19-kilometer trip for 500 people, in 1841.

Going overseas in order to experience a different way of life is _________ many people think of as travel, but travel does not necessarily _________ going abroad. How many people can __________ they have visited every part of their own country? Many people who live in __________ countries such as Russia and the USA have only visited a small part of their own country. And so __________ travel is also very exciting. It’s a surprising fact that 75 percent of US citizens do not __________ a passport, so travelling does not mean leaving their country for them.

Some people can’t travel or don’t like the __________ reality of travelling to faraway __________. These days it is easy to be an “armchair traveller”. People can visit distant __________ of the world or even little known parts of their own country __________ leaving their living room. Television documentaries make the world a small place and some people __________ that travel is no longer necessary. Perhaps soon people will use interactive computer programmes and virtual travel will become __________. Enthusiasts argue that by doing this we will have all the benefits without the __________.