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Information on Passive voice & answers to some exercises.docx

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Samantha Wetzels:Voluntourism has become an interesting travel trend option worldwide especially for western tourists. However, a controversy has developed regarding the actual benefit of voluntourism and its effects upon the local communities. A dispute regarding imperialism between white people going out to Africa to help Africans is an issue as it seems contradicting in many ways. Besides this, the money and the aid that has supposedly been provided these days does not have a helping affect in any way as the wrong approach towards skills and development have been implemented. Even though we think that we are helping, we are not providing them with the right amount of aid and more research needs to be done in order to find the correct and effective method without making a profit out of it for one’s own sake.

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Samantha Wetzels:Voluntourism has become an interesting travel trend option worldwide especially for western tourists. However, a controversy has developed regarding the actual benefit of voluntourism and its effects upon the local communities. A dispute regarding imperialism between white people going out to Africa to help Africans is an issue as it seems contradicting in many ways. Besides this, the money and the aid that has supposedly been provided these days does not have a helping affect in any way as the wrong approach towards skills and development have been implemented. Even though we think that we are helping, we are not providing them with the right amount of aid and more research needs to be done in order to find the correct and effective method without making a profit out of it for one’s own sake.

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Samantha Wetzels,  Emerging Markets:The Dutch tourism board has realised the importance of emerging markets, especially China when it comes to the profitability of the tourism sector within The Netherlands. They have therefore especially focussed on embracing the Chinese market. In order to attract Chinese tourists, hotels close to Schiphol Airport have been built to cater these tourists, providing special goods and services that attain to the needs and wants of the Chinese guests. This has been done to make them feel like they are home. Attention has for example been brought to providing a water kettle in each room so that the guests can make their own tea and noodles. Small details like this can really leave a good impression towards an emerging market and keep the tourism business running.

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Samantha Wetzels,  Emerging Markets:The Dutch tourism board has realised the importance of emerging markets, especially China when it comes to the profitability of the tourism sector within The Netherlands. They have therefore especially focussed on embracing the Chinese market. In order to attract Chinese tourists, hotels close to Schiphol Airport have been built to cater these tourists, providing special goods and services that attain to the needs and wants of the Chinese guests. This has been done to make them feel like they are home. Attention has for example been brought to providing a water kettle in each room so that the guests can make their own tea and noodles. Small details like this can really leave a good impression towards an emerging market and keep the tourism business running.

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Voluntourism has become a popular subject discussed in western countries. Where charity tourism and awareness of the worthwhile help contributed to locals come together and result in advantages or disadvantages. Depending on how beneficial it is only to the volunteers or the local people, depend on how volunteering abroad is organized. Some organizations aren’t genuine in the idea spread helping local people but make it worse by child trafficking so that volunteers keep on coming to raise the profit of the organization. On the other hand, volunteering can most likely be beneficial to local people if it is well prepared beforehand, people are placed in positions relating their skills and long-term projects are run.

To sum up, volunteering result in Voluntourism when it is done in short term and people are distributed repeating tasks that aren’t worth the short time spend. This is why well-prepared volunteering in long term and people being involved in tasks based on their capacity are most likely beneficial to local people and worth the money spend on volunteering.

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Task 5

Write a short, well-structured paragraph (80-120 words) about what your country is doing to attract tourists from emerging markets.  Use at least 2 of the strategies to write longer sentences, studied in today’s session (1. using relative pronouns; 2. using ING-words (gerunds) and 3. rearranging and omitting words).  In addition, use at least 5 collocations in your text.

Since a few years, Luxembourg is turning its capital city in a well-known Chinese destination. Places, like the old Adolf Bridge with the ‘golden lady’ statue and the famous head office of the Luxemburgish bank are always captured on camera by Chinese tourists. Vast number of busses drop off groups, who after the picture session head to the shopping streets of the capital. High spending power by locals and tourists is shown since around 3 years ago shops like Gucci, Marc Jacobs, Chanel have been opened. Known as a wealthy economy, the economy and the outbound trips increases significantly and constantly. The city has recognized that the Chinese traveler is the biggest target group, by catering and satisfying the Chinese tourist there is a chance in turning this particular target group in customers of long-standing.

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Adventure tourism

Have you ever dreamed of climbing cliffs and after that having the coolest guided tour through the jungle? Then adventure tourism is perfect for you! But is this kind of tourism sustainable and what kind of perks does it have?

Advantages

One of the main advantages is that it creates jobs in places where normally there wouldn’t be any, for you need people to guide the tourists through the pristine areas, etc.

Disadvantages

“Not really green” is one of the complaints people have on this kind of tourism. Since a lot of activities like jet-boating or wild hunting is seen as adventure tourism. The first is polluting our air, while the latter is pure cruel and disturbing nature.

To conclude, it is hard to say if this kind of tourism is better than any kind of tourism.

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Tourism is one of the most rapidly growing sectors in the world, and adventure tourism is one of its fastest growing categories. Adventure tourists are passionate and risk-taking. They are willing to see the world from a different perspective. Adventure tourists are not afraid to try new things. Those things can for instance be paragliding, mountain biking, caving and surfing. Because adventure tourists often travel alone, you could say that it is bad for the environment. They are not the kind of travelers that use a tour bus to see the city. They want to have the full experience of a location. Some locals are not happy about this because it disturbs the peace. Adventure tourism is something that can change a person’s perspective on the world. A adventure tourist often experiences something that he never forgets. The person can become more aware of the situation of the locals. This way he is willing to pay more attention to the area around him.