Revision sheet: Travel and Tourism Vocabulary

📋 Course Outline

1. Accommodation and Travel Arrangements
2. Budgets and Travel Services
3. Destinations and Cultural Experiences
4. Tourist Attractions and Activities
5. Food and Holiday Atmosphere
6. Travel Timing and Transport
7. Travel Safety and Practical Needs
8. Useful Travel Actions and Reactions

📖 1. Accommodation and Travel Arrangements

🔑 Key Concepts & Definitions

• Accommodation : A place where someone stays.
• Homestay : Accommodation in a local person's home.
• Hostel : A low-cost place to stay, especially a youth hostel for young travelers.
• Package holiday : A trip arranged as a package, including an all-inclusive package.

📝 Essential Points

• Travelers can find accommodation, book accommodation, or choose affordable accommodation when arranging a trip.

📖 2. Budgets and Travel Services

🔑 Key Concepts & Definitions

• Budget : The amount of money available or planned for a trip, and a budgetary matter concerns that financial plan.
• Travel agency : A business through which travelers can book trips, while a travel agent is an employee who arranges them.
• Luxury : Refers to great comfort and expense, and luxurious describes something characterized by luxury.

★ Must-know

• Travelers on a tight budget should stick to a budget by controlling their spending.

Further detail

• A traveler can roughly estimate costs, but may underestimate or overestimate the amount needed.

💡 Memory Hook

Affordable versus luxurious

📖 3. Destinations and Cultural Experiences

🔑 Key Concepts & Definitions

• Destination : The place a traveler is going to, such as a tourist destination, popular destination, or holiday destination.
• Cultural exchange : The sharing of ideas and experiences between different cultures.
• Ancient monument : A monument from a very distant historical period, and ancient ruins are the remains of ancient structures in a ruined condition.

★ Must-know

📌 Domestic refers to activity within one country, whereas international refers to activity involving different countries.

Further detail

• A place that is rich in culture has considerable cultural richness and traditions.

📖 4. Tourist Attractions and Activities

🔑 Key Concepts & Definitions

• Tourist attraction : A place or activity that draws visitors, while a tourist trap is a place that exploits tourists or charges them unfairly.
• Self-guided tour : A tour that travelers organize and follow without a guide.
• Itinerary : A plan for a journey that may be detailed or action-packed.

★ Must-know

• Tourists can go sightseeing, visit a gallery, catch sight of famous sights, or wander around an area.

Further detail

• Travel activities in the vocabulary include going on a cruise, going on safari, riding a roller coaster, and taking a hop-on hop-off bus.

📖 5. Food and Holiday Atmosphere

🔑 Key Concepts & Definitions

• Appeal : The quality of being attractive or interesting, and something with broad appeal attracts many different people.

★ Must-know

• Food can be described as delicious, tasty, flavorful, full of flavor, or mouth-watering, while flavorless food lacks taste.

• A relaxing atmosphere helps people relax and experience relaxation, while a relaxed person feels calm.

Further detail

• A pastry is a baked sweet or savory item, and a pastry shop is a shop that sells pastries.

• A spectacular waterfall, majestic waterfall, or picturesque terraced field is described as visually impressive or beautiful.

📖 6. Travel Timing and Transport

🔑 Key Concepts & Definitions

• Fixed schedule : Follows set times, whereas a flexible schedule can be changed more easily.
• Cruise : A journey by ship for pleasure, and a luxury cruise provides this experience with high-end comfort.

★ Must-know

📌 Peak season is the busiest travel period, whereas low season and off-peak season are periods outside the busiest period.

📌 A domestic flight travels within one country, whereas an international flight travels between countries.

Further detail

• A smooth flight is comfortable and without significant disturbance, and smoothly describes an action carried out without difficulty.

💡 Memory Hook

Peak season versus low season

📖 7. Travel Safety and Practical Needs

🔑 Key Concepts & Definitions

• Embassy : The official representative office of one country in another country, and travelers may contact the embassy for assistance.

★ Must-know

• A socket adapter, including a universal adapter, changes a plug so it can connect to a different socket.

• Travelers can apply sunblock or wear sunblock to protect their skin, while getting a tan makes the skin darker from sun exposure.

Further detail

• A traveler can get a notification about something when someone notifies them of it.

• A pharmacy is a place where medicines are supplied, and a pharmacist is the professional who works with medicines there.

📖 8. Useful Travel Actions and Reactions

★ Must-know

• Travelers may travel on their own, hunt for bargains, or wander off and become separated from their route.

📌 The structure require somebody to do something expresses that somebody must perform an action, and a requirement is the demanded condition or action.

Further detail

• Curiosity is the desire to know more; someone can be curious about something or do something out of curiosity.

• To exchange something means to give one thing and receive another in exchange, and cultural exchange involves sharing between cultures.

• Someone who is amazed at something feels amazement because it is amazing or surprising.

📊 Synthesis Tables

Travel periods and schedules

Notion	Meaning	Opposite or contrast
Peak season	Busiest travel period	Low or off-peak season
Fixed schedule	Set, difficult-to-change times	Flexible schedule
Domestic	Within one country	International