DULASP INTERMEDIAIRE - 2025-2026: In class activity 30 September 2025

Travel and tourism partner work

Work with a partner quietly. We will go over the answers together after 15-20 minutes. Once you are done, you can talk quietly or catch up on some other classwork.

Article

About 11 million visitors went to Greece last year, 10% more than the previous year. Most tourists take charter flights to the islands of Crete, Corfu and Rhodes, or to Halkidiki on the northern Greek mainland. Tourism is Greece's biggest industry, earning the country about $8 billion annually in foreign exchange.

(Paragraph 1) Crete is one of the most southern islands and a popular holiday destination in spring and summer, but the tourist season is short, despite the fact that the winters are as warm as in countries like Tunisia and Morocco, which have large numbers of visitors in winter.

(Paragraph 2) The Greek tourist industry is facing increasing competition from these countries and from neighboring Turkey. The Greek National Tourist Organization is trying to respond to this by developing activities that are not normally associated with Greece. Golf is one of them. and the GNTO is developing golf courses on state-owned land near the big tourist centers.

(Paragraph 3) The Director of the Crete Hoteliers' Association, Mr Stavros Milatos, says, "At the moment the tourist season ends in November and we have to offer tourists a wider choice of activities. We want to invest in facilities that can be used all year round."

(Paragraph 4) Tour operators and hotel owners in the port town of Khan are investing heavily. A group of 40 hotelier have put up a considerable investment to build an 18-hole golf course near the town, one of the first golf courses on Crete. The course, to be designed and laid out by an American company, will be used mostly in the winter months as summer temperatures can reach 35C and it's too hot play golf during most of the day.

Multiple Choice

The period of the year when most visitors normally go to a particular place is the tourist _________.
1. (A)Season
2. (B)Phase
3. (C) Duration

An organization that offers holidays for people is a tour __________.

(A)Supplier
(B)Provider
(C)Operator

A flight specially for people going on holiday in a particular place, where all the seats have been paid for in advance by travel companies, is a/an __________________.

(A)Group flight
(B)Charter flight
(C)Unscheduled flight

4. Another name for a hotel owner is a _____________.

(A)Hotelier
(B)Hoteller
(C)Hotellist

5. Building, equipment, services, etc designed for use by tourists are tourist _________________.

a. Premises

b. Facilities

c. Penitentiaries

6. The money that foreign tourists spend in a country is a source of foreign ______________.

(A)Excess
(B)Expenditure
(C)Exchange

Vocabulary

Combine the words on the left with the words on the right to form compounds that match definitions a-f below.

arrivals number
check-in flight
connecting desk
departure hall
flight passengers
transfer lounge

A.People at an airport who have just arrived there on a flight and are flying on to somewhere else

B.A very large room at an airport for passengers who have just arrived, people meeting them, etc.

C.The number identifying the airplane and route

D.The place where you tell the airline that you have arrived for your flight

E.The room where passengers wait just before they get on the plane

F. The second or third flight that you take as part of one journey

Matching

Read the article and choose the best title for each numbered paragraph below. Do not use any letter more than once.

Paragraph 1 _____________

Paragraph 2 _____________

Paragraph 3 _____________

Paragraph 4 _____________

(A)A new golf course near Khania
(B)Crete’s tourist season
(C)Developing a wider choice of activities in Crete
(D)Golf construction techniques
(E)Greece’s efforts to compete with rival tourist destinations
(F)Greek golfing traditions
(G)The development of Turkish tourism

Fill in the Blank

Using the information in the text. Fill in the blanks.

The Greek National Tourist Organization wants to ____________________.
Greek hotel owners don’t want to __________________.
The Greek Tourist industry _______________.
Eleven million tourists ____________________.

(A)Is facing increased competition from other countries
(B)Develop Athens as a tourist destination
(C)Make the tourist season longer by encouraging people to visit in winter
(D)Came on charter flights last year
(E)Spend their time playing golf
(F)Invest in facilities that are not used all year round
(G)Went to Greece last year

Fill in the Blank

1. A) ceremony B)ceremonial C)meeting D)ritual

2. A)collaboration B)Collusion C)competition D)confrontation

3. A)contraction B)construction C)continuation D)containerization

4. A)budget B)costing C)expenses D)spending

5. A)prestige B)pleasing C)pleased D)pleasure

6. A)idyll B)idealistic C)idealism D)ideal

7. A)facile B)facilities C)facility D)faculties

8. A)enthusing B)enthusiastic C)enthusiasm D)enthuse

9. A)praise B)pray C)prayers D)prizes

10. A)interest B)interests C)interested D)interesting

11. A)arguments B)debates C)discussions D)discourses

12. A)contacts B) contract C)talks D)touch

Golf Course Opens Ahead of Schedule

There were celebrations in Khania as its first golf course opened today, one month ahead of schedule.

In a speech at the opening (1) _____________, Stavros Milatos, head of the Crete Hoteliers' Association, paid tribute to the "close (2) _____________" with Golf Course Design and Construction Inc, the American builders of the project. "We have had very friendly builders of the project. "We have had very friendly dealings with GCDC," said Mr Milatos. "They have worked very closely with local (3) _____________ companies, and this collaboration has meant that we are able to open the course a month earlier than originally planned, 10 percent under (4) _____________: an amazing achievement."

Mr Milatos was joined at the ceremony by Alvin Palmer, head of GCDC. "It's been a great (5) _____________ working on this project," said Mr Palmer. "The site is (6)_____________: golf courses next to the sea have something special about them."

Mr Milatos and Mr Palmer were joined as the first players on the course by Spiros Kanaris, mayor of Khania, who said afterwards, "We are very fortunate to have these new (7) _____________ on our doorstep. The course will help make the tourist industry here an all-year-round business."

Comments from visitors were equally (8) _____________. "This is one of the most beautiful courses I've played on," said Bernhard Braun from Hamburg. I'll certainly be coming down here again during the winter. They tell me there are a lot of sunny winter days with temperatures of 20 to 25 degrees." On the course there were also visitors from Scandinavia, France, Britain and Ireland. They has a lot of (9)_____________ for the facilities. Comments ranged from "a scenic, but technically (10) _____________ course", to the "best clubhouse bar this side of Galway".

(11) _____________ are already under way for furthering golf courses on Crete. Sites under consideration include one near Heraklion, and another in the south of the island, near the resort of Ieraptra. Mr Milatos said, "We are in close (12) _____________ with colleagues in other parts of the island. Of course, they will be watching developments here closely, but all the initial signs here are that the Khania course is going to be a very successful project.