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Travel and
Tourism 1.Remote places with strange-sounding names attract the traveller
with promises of excitement, different forms of entertainment, and new kinds of
food. The urge to travel is as old as civilization. Hundreds of years age. A
young man from Venice named Marco Polo set out with his father for China, and
his writings opened the Far East to Europeans of his time. 2.The modern
travel industry is organized to meet every need and desire of the individual
traveller. While travel was once an uncertain and dangerous event, it is now an
easily planned adventure that has been revolutionized by great improvements in
transportation, computer technology, and networks of international
communication. 3.The individual traveller is concerned about where to go, how
to get there, where to stay, where to eat, and what to eat. The travel industry
is organized to meet these concerns in a variety of ways; travel agents and tour
companies, transport companies, hotel arrangement and restaurant
reservation systems, and local of national tourism boards. 4.The age of
international travel was revolutionized on Oct. 26, 1958, when Pan American
World Airways flew a Boeing 707 jet airplane from New York City to Paris with
123 people on board. Jets cut long-distance air travel time in half. In the
following decades, the airline industry expanded greatly and used a variety of
airplanes. 5.Eating out poses few problems for a tourist who speaks the
language of the country that he is visiting, but menus in other languages can be
confusing and frustrating. It has been suggested that menus be printed in
several languages, and restaurants in many major tourist centers now follow this
practice. The flying of the Boeing 707 in 1958 marked a new stage for ______ .