Name: Learn English Vocabulary for Tourism: resort, cruise, charter, all-inclusive…
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Hi, welcome to www.engvid.com . I'm Adam.

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In today's video, I'm going to talk to you a little bit about tourism and a little bit

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of the tourism words you need to plan your next vacation.

Now, we're going to focus mostly on group tours, not so much solo travelling.

I'll make a different video for that, but we want to look at the different types of

tours you can take and how you're going to get there, okay?

So, we're going to start with the types of tourist destinations and tourist vacation

The most common vacation style, for example, people in Canada, especially in the winter,

they like to go down south to Cuba, Florida, Mexico, all these hot areas.

Now, a resort is usually a gated place or a closed off community where there're hotels

and there's restaurants and there's a beach.

And people don't really have to worry about anything.

Everything they need is right there at the hotel.

Now, amenities are like spa and restaurant and gym and a masseuse if they need a message.

They go, relax, stay a week, go home back to their every day lives.

Now, very similar to a resort vacation is a cruise vacation.

This is on a big ship, but these days, these cruise ships.

They're just - cruse ship, just add the "ship" to it - cruise ships are called floating cities,

because they are so huge and basically everything that you need, everything that you have at

home is available on the ship, including all the amenities plus some.

They have many restaurants, they have casinos, they have movie theaters, they have play areas

for the kids, if you're taking your kids.

They have all kinds of things to keep you busy, because you're basically in the middle

There's really nowhere to go sightseeing.

They do make stops at different points along the way.

So, you can go out for the day, do a little bit of shopping, get a little bit of culture,

get back to the boat, back to the sea or ocean, and keep going.

Again, very easy type of vacation and very relaxing for most people.

Now, again, you can go a packaged tour or you can just buy a flight somewhere and do

But a lot of people prefer a packaged tour.

A packaged tour basically packages a few things together.

Flight, hotel, car are the most common components of a package.

Flight and hotel really being the most common, okay?

Now, resorts and cruise ships usually have two options.

I'm not sure which way the accent goes, I think it's this way.

So, all inclusive means you make one payment, you pay for the package, and you don't have

to spend any more money the whole vacation, unless you want to, of course.

All inclusive includes all your meals, all your drinks, all the facilities and amenities

in the hotel or the resort or the cruise ship, right?

Now, if you go outside of the resort and you want to go visit the local areas, then you

pay for the taxi, you pay for any souvenirs you buy.

If you eat in the town, you pay for your meal.

But on the resort, you don't have to pay for anything.

You leave your wallet in your room, go around, do anything you want and enjoy it.

A la carte means you pay - usually you pay for the flight and hotel and then all meals,

All excursions, all activities you pay for separately, right?

Now, if you want to know more about a la carte, you can see my lesson about French vocabulary

Now, most people like to go on group tours.

They like to buy packages with groups because A - it's a little bit cheaper than doing it

by yourself and B - they get to meet new people.

A lot of people feel safer, okay, safety in numbers.

Some people don't like group tours because they're forced to follow the schedule of the

There's a tour guide that goes with the group, takes them to all the different sightseeing

Maybe gives a little bit of a history or a little bit of education about the place and

A lot of people, and this is becoming more and more popular these days, they like to

Basically, you're going someplace where they take care of the environment, okay?

So, you're going to like, a beach, but there's no - they didn't bring in extra equipment.

They didn't bring in extra materials to build hotels.

They build it from wood or they build it from the local materials that are available without

So, if you're the type of person who wants to protect the environment, but you also want

to go on vacation, you can do both on these ecotours, okay?

Some people like to go on adventure tours.

Maybe you want to go bungee jumping or skiing down a mountain.

Whatever is your idea of an adventure, there are tours that are geared for that.

It means everything about this tour is to basically engage in that adventure activity.

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